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Changing Strategies At The White House
Writing in the American Interest, Walter Russell Mead takes a fascinating look at a long line of botched American action in the Mideast, and offers some advice to Obama.
The Middle East is an unforgiving environment for American presidents in which mistakes are easy to make and all your mistakes are sure to haunt you. There are no magic formulas that will bring success here, but struggling with the region, its intractable problems, and the consequences of the failures and missteps of your predecessors is part of what it means to be President of the United States.
Tablet Magazine asks a range of public figures – among them Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Mayim Bialik – to name one thing they believe is necessary to do in the next 12 months to have a meaningful year.
This year I must, whenever possible, teach people that public service is not only a noble service but a necessary service for the true fulfillment of enacting on a scale that is expected of us values of justice and equality in our society; that paying taxes is an obligation like giving tzedakah…
Daily Digest
- Times of Israel: French magazine publishes cartoons of Muhammad in ‘daring positions’
- Haaretz: Former Syrian general: Assad planned to transfer chemical weapons to Hezbollah
- Jerusalem Post: IDF holds surprise live-fire drill in Golan
- Ynet: AIPAC thanks Obama for 'steadfast support'
- New York Times: Middle East Comments Could Vex a Romney Administration
- Washington Post: Thousands in Beirut protest anti-Islam video in Hezbollah show of strength
- Wall Street Journal: In Iran, the Wind Blows Free. Of Sanctions, That Is.
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