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...headed to a relatively stable and democratic future, we currently must continue to shoulder the majority of the burden of the conflict in Afghanistan as NATO’s contribution dwindles. Radical Islamist terrorism has cost thousands of American lives and is gestating in ungoverned territories in South Asia, Yemen, Somalia, and North Africa. A bellicose Iran is approaching the nuclear threshold. Pirates range across the Indian Ocean. Across our own southern border, the Mexican government is struggling with sophisticated organized crime cartels over the control of significant portions of northern Mexico—a struggle that could spill into...
While working as a reporter in distant locales such as Yemen and Iraq, Finkel said he always carried a few books with him, one of which was “Common Ground...
Reminding us about the importance of Yemen, on ForeignPolicy.com...
...Remember Yemen? For a few short weeks this winter, after the Yemen-trained Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried (and failed) to blow up a commercial airliner in Detroit, the troubled country found itself under a rare media spotlight ... And now: nothing ... [U.S. policy toward Yemen] requires a sustained focus from policymakers and analysts (and even reporters!)--not a reactive approach...
...third, a key interlocutor with countries like China, Russia, India and Brazil. And providing the right level of support in areas like Afghanistan, Yemen, in the Middle East. So a much more coherent voice, built up from the 27 member countries working together. We are the beginning of that. The treaty gives us the legal basis to do it, but the development will come in the next few years. I'm only into month three. I don't even have a full team yet. But as time goes on, we'll get better...