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Yemen’s a Model Alright—For Disaster -- Michael Shank and Casey Harrity, Daily Beast
Guns, drones and special forces were not enough to stabilize Yemen, and they won’t be enough to stop ISIS
Remember the so-called “Yemen model,” the seeming success story for a U.S. policy targeting terrorists that President Barack Obama pointed to a few months ago? Well, it’s not a model anyone would want to point to anymore.
While the world’s attention has been focused on the atrocities and momentum of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Yemen is teetering on the verge of an all out sectarian civil war. And that’s not the worst of it: the lessons that should have been learned in Yemen, and that ought to apply in the fight against ISIS, have been largely ignored.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 13, 2014
Why are Jerusalem’s 300,000 Arabs rising up again? -- Rashid I. Khalidi, Reuters
Someone Please Ask Obama What Is Going On With Iran -- L. Todd Wood, Western Journalism
The Saudi prince who could be king -- S. Rob Sobhani, Washington Times
No Chance Turkey Will Be 'Kicked Out of NATO' -- Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor/US News and World Report
The Sick Man of Asia: North Korea’s downward spiral. -- Dennis Halpin, Weekly Standard
India’s Strategic Vietnam Defense Relations -- P K Ghosh, The Diplomat
China Loves Obama Even If U.S. Doesn't -- Adam Minter, Bloomberg
Russia and reconciliation in Afghanistan -- Ahmed Rashid, Al Jazeera
Now That Russia Has Invaded Ukraine Again, Let's Stop Pretending a Ceasefire Ever Existed -- Julia Ioffe and Linda Kinstler, New Republic
Ukraine or Russia: Who will blink first? -- Andrew Wilson, CNN
Ukraine Future Clouded After Two 'Elections' -- Al Pessin, VOA
Russian provocations on the rise: Is it a new Cold War? -- Richard Allen Greene and Inez Torre, CNN
Charmer and Brute: Close Encounters With the Two Putins -- Michael Heath, Bloomberg
A potential fresh start for U.S. foreign policy -- George Will, Washington Post
Quiet heroism evaporates in ‘who killed Osama?’ row -- Sholto Byrnes, National Interest
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