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• Secretary Kerry. . . . Please Fix It . . . Now

  
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  By Patricia H. Kushlis How many more embarrassing reports revealing the undersideof the State Department need to leak to the media before the new Secretary doessomething about cleaning up the administrative swamp into which this oncevenerable institution has sunk. Among the most recent: Tales of an unidentified ...
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• Syria: Here We Go Again

  
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  Let’s be clear about something as it relates to our view of the ongoing crisis in Syria: We don’t give a f*ck. Seriously … if one group of Syrians wants to brutally murder another group of Syrians, we don’t give a f*ck.Sure it’s terrible, and sure we wish it weren’t happening … but at the end of [...] ...
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• Beijing Pushes Claim on…Okinawa?

  
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  Who owns Okinawa Island, roughly 400 miles south of the main Japanese islands and the largest of the Ryukyu group of volcanic islands that stretches from Japan to Taiwan? That depends on who you ask. To most of the world Okinawa is thoroughly Japanese. But look far enough back in time and the facts are not so clear: ...
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• Believing The Islamic Lie

  
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  Interesting stuff from Information Warfare, where there is more : This is not a sudden and unexpected outburst of Moslem violence against non-Moslems and Moslems considered heretical. It is normal and at the root of Islamic terrorism. While this violent behavior represents only a small number of Moslems, it is a ...
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• Why Obama is arming Syrias rebels: its the realism, stupid.

  
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  Red line!!  RED LINE!!!  RED LINE!! !! : The Obama administration, concluding that the troops of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in his country’s civil war, has decided to begin supplying the rebels for the first time with small arms and ammunition, ...
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• Mighty long way down a dusty road all the way to the abyss...

  
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  The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan largely because they were totally frustrated with their client states inability to do just about anything that they expected them to do. The people of the former Soviet Union are still suffering the impact of that decision. Russia is still engaged in the continuing kerfluffle in ...
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• Syria Crosses Obamas Red Line on Chemical Weapons

  
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  Ive said it many times, but the U.S. should have considered military intervention in Syria long ago. I doubt wed make things better at this point. An Islamist regime coming to power wont be an improvement on Assad. As sick as it sounds, theres no good choice for Syria right now. Maybe Obama will get some wag-the-dog ...
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• US Edging Closer to Syria War

  
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  The news from the White House today brings the United States significantly closer to yet another Middle Eastern war. Concluding that “forces loyal” to the brutal Syrian dictator Assad had used chemical weapons against rebels, President Obama is stepping up the “scope and scale” of aid to the forces seeking ...
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• Middle East Matters This Week: Syria’s Deaths, Turkey’s Protests, and Egypt’s Water

  
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  Significant Developments Syria. United Nations high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay said today that the Syrian death toll is approaching ninety-three thousand . Syrian rebels attacked the village of Hatlah yesterday, killing at least thirty Shiite villagers and burning homes while shouting sectarian ...
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• The Syria Strategy Vacuum - By Marc Lynch

  
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  Forget about "how" to intervene in the Syrian civil war. The Obama administration needs to answer the bigger question: why?
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• Illicit Networks, Political Instability, and Criminal Violence

  
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  Two weeks ago, CFR’s Center for Preventive Action and International Institutions and Global Governance program convened a workshop on “ Illicit Networks, Political Instability, and Criminal Violence .” The workshop intended to analyze trends in transnational criminal networks, examine the latest developments ...
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• Has America Lost Its Nerve Abroad?

  
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  An armoured U.S. Marine vehicle is enveloped in smoke after it was hit by an IED roadside bomb attack during a patrol of Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan. (Erik De Castro/Reuters) How America Lost Its Nerve Abroad -- Michael Hirsh, The Atlantic Policymakers used to believe in a ...
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• Intel Outside - By David Cole

  
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  Could the NSA just use foreigngovernments to spy on Americans?
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• Syrian Rebels Massacre Shiites

  
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  Reports are emerging that Syrian rebels killed at least 60 Shiites in a village in eastern Syria in what seems to be a revenge attack for an earlier incident. The rebels say the Shiites were Shabiha , members of Assad’s feared irregular militias. Syrian officials describe it as a massacre of civilians. “What was ...
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• What is a weapon? What is a soldier? And what if drones are better killers than us?

  
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  Rosa Brooks, a former Pentagon official who is now aGeorgetown law professor (and a fellow FPwriter ), said the lines of warfare and much else are much murkier than theywere a few decades ago. "Is a line of code a weapon?" she asked at the CNAS conference . "Well, it can killpeople. It can do real damage." (Tom: ...
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• Quote of the day no. 1: When it is distribution and when it is proliferation

  
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  Ben Fitzgerald of Noetic: "Its distribution if weredoing it. Its proliferation if other people do it."
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• R2P on Life Support: Humanitarian Norms vs. Practical Realities in Syria

  
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  Thirty-five years ago, U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski famously declared that the doctrine of détente “ lies buried in the sands of Ogaden .” By exporting revolution to the Horn of Africa, he implied, Moscow had abandoned norms of peaceful coexistence, as well as prospects for the SALT treaty. ...
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• U.S. credibility on Iran at stake in Syria

  
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  American officialslike to say that Irans defiance of international demands that it limit itsnuclear activities, its support for terrorism, and the like have led toTehrans growing isolation. Iranian regime officials see things differently. TheIranian regime has a strategy in the Middle East and believes it is ...
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• Mexico’s Transformations

  
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  I had the pleasure of joining PBS’s Tavis Smiley on his Los Angeles based show earlier this week to talk about Two Nations Indivisible . You can watch our conversation here .
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• Mexico’s Transformations

  
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  I had the pleasure of joining PBS’s Tavis Smiley on his Los Angeles based show earlier this week to talk about Two Nations Indivisible . You can watch our conversation here : Published in conjunction with Latin America’s Moment at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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