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H1 CSIS Iraq and the Crocker-Petraeus Testimony: The Risks that Only Time and a Sustained US Presence Can Deal With There is still a marginally better case for staying than for leaving.

New York Times General’s Advice to Suspend Troop Cuts Reflects Bleak Assessment of Iraq Military

Hamas in Largest Arms Buildup Yet, Israeli Study Says

Foreign Policy: 2 Camps Seek McCain’s Ear More pragmatic Republicans are increasingly concerned as Senator John McCain aligns with foreign policy advisers likely to advocate continued support for the war.

Armenia: Picking up the Pieces A new report from the International Crisis Group reports on an intensifying political crisis between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the long disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Full report

Stratfor Geopolitical Diary: Iranian Escalation and the Saudi Connection ...

Reidar Visser Maliki, Hakim, and Iran’s Role in the Basra Fighting

The War Over the War Reidar Visser

IHT Roger Cohen: Europe blue, Asia red By ROGER COHEN

Europeans love blue-state America, but Asians have fears about a Democratic victory.

NATO divided By CHARLES A. KUPCHAN The NATO allies no longer agree on the imminence or the nature of the threats they confront

Saudis involved in Mugniyah assassination?

McClatchy Congress tells Petraeus: Show us an Iraq withdrawal plan After five years of war, the American public is exhausted by pleas for more time and doesn't feel the war is worth the cost, congressional leaders told Crocker and Petraeus. As for their advice that the situation on the ground should dictate any troop withdrawals, Democrats and Republicans said the U.S. needs an exit strategy

Former Treasury secretary: U.S. likely in a recession It's "overwhelmingly likely" that the U.S. economy is in recession, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said Wednesday, adding an important voice to a growing list of economists who think Americans are suffering through an economic contraction.

Financial Times Restocking the empty global larder A clear and consistent policy of cheap food has been sadly absent from the world debate about support to agriculture over the past few years. It should not have taken a crisis to create one

Adrift in Baghdad A surge of realism about Iraq is long overdue. Sudden US withdrawal is not the answer, but nor is a policy that, willy-nilly, empowers more and more warlords to pull the country to bits

Banks take blame for credit crisis

The world’s leading banks publicly accepted much of the blame for the credit crisis, as the International Monetary Fund slashed its estimates for global growth and warned that the US downturn will last longer than most people expect

Witness in Hariri case goes missing A former Syrian officer who implicated Damascus in the Lebanese leader’s death disappears while under house arrest in Paris, dealing another blow to preparations for trial

Guardian No endgame in sight

Michael Boyle General Petraeus made it clear that the US will remain in Iraq for the foreseeable future but failed to explain the circumstances under which it can get out

Rise of the neo-coins Daniel Korski Counter-insurgency, not traditional counter-terrorism, is the way forward, according to an influential new US school of foreign policy

Petraeus: the view from Iran

M Cist

Intimidation and censorship are no answer to this inflammatory film Timothy Garton Ash: A Dutch politician's alarmist anti-Islam polemic needs to be taken apart and calmly answered

This free-market farce shows how badly we need the state Ulrich Beck : The massive global risk of an unfettered financial model is now being felt, thanks to its dogmatists' blinkered irresponsibility

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: Stiglitz on Iraq’s Costs and the Global Economy

Ramazani Understanding Iran's Policy Towards The United States

Juan Cole Petraeus, Iraq and the Lebanon Analogy

Gross National Happiness In this provocative new book, Arthur C. Brooks explodes the myths about happiness in America. He examines vast amounts of evidence and empirical research to uncover the truth about who is happy in America, who is not, and why

Gideon Rachman Nato, Georgia and missile defence “a system that won’t work, against a threat that doesn’t exist, paid for with money that we don’t have.”

Time What Al-Qaeda Learned from Petraeus

ABCNEWS: Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’

Phillip Carter / Intel Dump:
Petraeus Overplays His Hand

Walker's World: Iran wins again By MARTIN WALKER (UPI) -- Doubling its ability to process nuclear fuel and brokering the Iraqi cease fire in Basra, Iran looms ever larer as a campaign issue for the U.S. elections

Asia Times War and peace, Israeli style Israel's massive military exercises on the Syrian border have significantly raised tension between the two countries, even as their leaders downplay the development. At first glance, it is in nobody's interest to see yet another war. Yet in their relentless pursuit of Hezbollah, the Israelis have good reason to wage a limited battle on the group's natural ally, Syria - and then seek peace on their own terms. - Sami Moubayed

Wall Street Journal Iraq's National Identity Is Alive and Growing
By Samir Sumaida'ie We will embarrass all of those who have rushed to write our obituary

Balkan Fix
By Janusz Bugajski NATO's solutions for the region create fresh problems.

What next for Iraq? (by Harlan Ullman)

Christian Science Monitor

In Iraq, Sunni insurgents still aim to oust U.S., Shiites In an interview, a member of the Islamic Army of Iraq speaks of his group's long-term goals.

Palestinian moderates push for Fatah, Hamas to reconcile A Yemeni initiative aims to start a dialogue between the rival factions, a prospect that both Israel and the US have advised against.

The Times Iraq snubbed Britain to call US into battle Relations between Britain and Iraq suffered 'catastrophic failure' after Baghdad called in US 'cavalry', The Times has learnt

Where a prominent job can get you killed The European Union hoped in vain that the simple virtue of membership would change crime-ridden Bulgaria

Bronwen Maddox

Antisemitism in the Qur’an--4/10/2008 12:00:00 AM

The price of food: ingredients of global crisis, Heidi Fritschel

Newsweek Who Is the Superclass? 6000 people who rule the world

William Arkin The Winner? Petraeus and the American Military

MESH Mubarak hangs on

H 2 Rand Turkey as a US Security Partner Full Document By F. Stephen Larrabee Turkey is likely to be a more difficult and less predictable partner in the future