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ons. For realists and idealists alike, such independence holds tremendous value as the country contends with a fragmenting Middle East, an unstable North Africa, and a contentious Russia, among other challenges. EFTA00707205 Since 1973, OPEC's "oil weapon" has dangled ominously over the U.S. While Americ

decision not to act on Syria and the United Nations Security Council's decision to pass a weak resolution on Syria the last straws? It was based on U.N. Security Council decisions, especially the one on the issue of [Syrian] chemical weapons removal. The fact that it had no enforcement powers? Not only that — the f

nce over a Middle East peace agreement, even as the Administration continued to try to manage the post- revolution transitions across the region and North Africa. Obama doesn't believe that there is much he can do to change EFTA_R1_02204192 EFTA02720663 the status quo in North Korea. Meanwhile, the situat

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many fear, there will not be a smooth transition. If America continues to reduce its role in the Middle East, predicts a former central banker from North Africa, "the next quarter century is ... going to be very, very messy," marked by "disorder more than order." Kishore Mahbubani, a well-known theorist of

vilian purposes? How would U.S. officials argue that what the deal concedes to the ayatollahs' regime, after a decade of flagrant violations of six U.N. Security Council resolutions and their commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, is forbidden for more responsible countries? How could the United States cas

sts attacking both Israel and Egypt). While world attention in our region focuses on Syria, EFTA_R1_02211666 EFTA02724660 transformations across North Africa, the situation in Iraq, and Iranian-Israeli tensions, more and more people around the world — including mainline churches, labor unions, academics

tional terrorism against the United States." It would be to prevent Iran—the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism, in violation of countless U.N. Security Council and IAEA board of governors resolutions, and under international sanctions—from obtaining nuclear weapons. Such a proposal by President Obama woul