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...papered over. "Our policies are a reflection of our interests and our alliances and while they may change moderately from administration to administration, the underlying interests are simply not allied with the policies that many Muslims around the world would like to see the United States pursue," explained Jon Alterman, a former State Department adviser, at a recent forum in Washington. "We're going to have to agree to disagree, and that's the first task for the President - to frame U.S. policy in a way that takes some of the passion out of the widespread hostility for the United...
...Alterman's advice dovetails with Obama's diplomatic approach on previous trips to Latin America and Europe, where rather than try to paper over differences, he focused on changing the tone of the discussion. "Where there is resistance to a certain set of policies that we are pursuing, that resistance may turn out just to be based on old preconceptions or ideological dogmas that, when they're cleared away, it turns out that we can actually solve a problem," Obama said in Trinidad...
...Chinese get more than half of their surging oil imports from the Middle East and are deathly afraid of turmoil in the Persian Gulf. "They lose sleep at night thinking that they [rely] on the Middle East," says Jon Alterman, a senior fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of a new study called "The Vital Triangle: China, the United States, and the Middle East...
...Semi-Pro” is essentially a remake of 2004’s “Dodgeball,” but without most of the laughs and any of the originality. While it’s hard to make an underdog story seem fresh, director Kent Alterman could have at least tried to add something new. Not even Ferrell can save the film, which flounders helplessly from the start. Ferrell is a natural comedian who’s at his best in films like “Wedding Crashers” and last year?...
Ultimately, “Diptych” tells two stories of loss and anger. Despite both Sara’s and David’s difficult journeys of self-discovery, Alterman and Mogolov resoundingly evoked the power of using humor to overcome painful personal obstacles...