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Should Iran be Included in Syria Conflict Diplomacy?

From On January 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

As former top State Department intelligence specialist Wayne White points out for Lobe Log, in the absence of a tenable ceasefire agreement, the quagmire that is the Syrian civil war will likely intensify, thereby only worsening post-Assad scenarios.

“The bottom line is that a sort of Catch-22 situation is [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On September 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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News and views relevant to US foreign policy for Sept. 15

“No Rush to War“: The editorial board of the New York Times highlights the Iran Project report – authored and endorsed by a bipartisan group of high-level national security experts – that we discussed earlier this [...]

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Former Defense Secretary: Turkey’s Clash With Syria May Require NATO, U.S. To Go To War

From On June 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Think Progress

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen said in aninterview with CNN last night that the U.S. doesn’t want to go to war in Syria, but with tensions mounting between Turkey — a NATO ally — and Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad’s embattled government over a downed Turkish plane, the [...]

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Libya and the specter of the unknown

From On September 6, 2011 · 2 Comments

By Reza Sanati

Just as the fall of Kabul and Baghdad ignited a spate of jubilation and self-vindication from proponents of intervention in those countries, the fall of Tripoli has reincarnated this pattern, both from humanitarian interventionists and their U.S.-interest minded counterparts. And now that the Qaddafi regime has completely eroded, even skeptics [...]

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