On Wednesday, President Barack Obama is to assemble his top national security officials at the CIA to discuss options to increase pressure on the Islamic State in Syria. With each additional step, he risks drawing the U.S. further into the conflict he has spent five years trying to avoid.
The meeting of the National Security Council Principals Committee brings together some of the president’s top cabinet members, most of whom have been pressing Obama to allow them to do more to fight the Islamic State in Syria. According to some reports, Secretary of State John Kerry had pestered the president so many times to ramp up the military mission that the president stipulated that only the secretary of defense could bring him military proposals.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 13, 2016
How did it go wrong for Dilma Rousseff? -- Daniel Gallas, BBC
Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi’s Dangerous Gamble -- Zalmay Khalilzad, New York Times
Iraq may soon reach a point beyond repair -- Megan O'Toole, Al Jazeera
Turkey plays both sides in Iran, Saudi conflict -- Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor
Iran's Army Suffers Its First Casualties in Syria -- Farzin Nadimi, Washington Institute
How China’s fishermen are fighting a covert war in the South China Sea -- Simon Denyer, Washington Post
South China Sea Dispute Unlikely To Die Down Anytime Soon (audio) -- NPR
Indonesia Ups the Stakes in the South China Sea -- Fortunre/Reuters
Lessons From Japan's Experiment With Negative Rates -- Mohamed A. El-Erian, Bloomberg
Out of Africa -- Thomas Friedman, NYT
Don’t Let Vladimir Putin Destroy NATO -- James B. Foley, Time
'So what if Putin is corrupt?': Russia remains unmoved by offshore revelations -- Shaun Walker, The Guardian
Europe's Six-Headed Crisis -- Andy Langenkamp, The Compass
How Germany Has Resisted the Influence of ISIS -- Simon Shuster, Time
Spain has three weeks but almost no options to avoid re-run elections -- Vincenzo Scarpetta, Open Europe
Canada's Saudi arms deal: Enough with the hypocrisy -- Konrad Yakabuski, The Globe and Mail
Obama Was Not a Realist President -- Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
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When the "business uber allies" Globe criticizes a deal for "brutal moral ambiguity" you know we've taken a turn for the surreal in Canada.
There's some $hit brewing here and certain folks want to distance themselves from the Saudis quick, fast and tout suite. Not UNIFOR though. It's all about the dues, Harleys and in-ground swimming pools.
Strategic voting = like is attracted to like.
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