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[health, mens health, men's health, mental health, health care, womens health, women's health, yahoo health, childrens health, children's health, kids health, kid's health, depression, cholesterol, pregnancy, weight loss, diabetes, diets, AIDS, lupus, fitness, diet, breast cancer, cancer, fibromyalgia, shingles, alzheimer's disease, gout, health news, health information, healthy kids, health issues, health topics, drug information, drug guide, longevity, condition, conditions, disease, diseases, medical encyclopedia, health encyclopedia, health video, health videos, medical video, medication, medications, Find information on wellness, diet, fitness, weight loss, mental health, anti-aging, conditions & diseases, drugs & medications] Matthew Duss: Report: Iraq War Undercut U.S. Credibility, Hobbled ...: The study finds that, in addition to facilitating the rise of Iranian power, undercutting perceptions of U.S. strength and influence, and increasing the profile of other actors like Russia and China, the war has seriously hurt the prospects for political reform in the region: On the domestic front, societal conflict in the broader region resulting from the war has not yet materialized to the extent forecast; rather, state power has strengthened and tolerance of domestic political opposition has decreased.

[e-IR] e-IR » Channeling “Nixon Goes to China” in the Middle East: Obviously, for this to work the US must allay the most pressing fears of present allies in the region, notably Israel whose immediate security concerns regarding Iran are far more immediate and proximate than those of the US. The US’s stance on deterrence must be clear enough that Israel understands that any attack upon it by Iran would be answered with the most aggressive of responses.  To further compensate, missile defense cooperation with Israel will probably have to be quickened and made even more robust than it already is.  Additionally, the US should be careful in pushing an unrealistic settlement in the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process.  It is difficult to conceive of Israel willingly accepting a nuclear armed Iran while also accepting concessions that could put militants within even easier striking distance of major metropolitan areas than already exists.

[National Security Experts] Hamid Karzai: What Do We Do About This Man? - National Security: Unfortunately, Karzai, as with Iraq's Prime Minister Maliki with respect to his involvement in hyping the Ba'thist threat in the lead-up to the recent Iraqi parliamentary elections, probably will find that many Afghans either will shrug off such allegations as more political blather or, already weary of Karzai's corruption, deception and dysfunctional governance, will be reluctant to give credence to much of anything he says at this point. The Afghan parliament's rejection of Karzai's latest attempt to expand his power by gaining control of Afghanistan's largely independent election panel is an example of push-back against some of Karzai's political machinations.

[violentj] Can Prime Minister Alawi salvage the mess obama is leaving him in ...: Alawi narrowly won the race with a large show of support from the Suni population since Maliki tried to discount their representation in Parliment by attempting to scrub from the ballots any candidate who has been accused of having ties to the Saddam Regime, obviously mainly Suni candidates. Minister Alawi has already taken steps to reach out to his rivals and their followers in an effort to unify the divided nation.

[Atlantic Community RSS-Feed] Atlantic Community:Open Think Tank Article "Channeling "Nixon Goes ...: In addition to this, after all the rethoric of the Bush-Administration about Democracy and Freedom, the U.S. public would probably not accept a "betrayal" of the still young and weak democratic movement in Iran. Such a radical shift of policy would also endanger some of the allies like Israel (including its strong lobby in Washington), but even more important Saudi Arabia, with all the oil dependency of the U.S. econonmy to be put in trouble, at least potentially.

[WSJ.com: Baghdad Life] Bureaucracy, Favoritism and Corruption Still Hobble Iraq's ...: After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I quickly became disenchanted with the notion that the demise of Saddam’s corrupt regime and the arrival of a U.S.-backed pro-democracy government could put an end to corruption and favoritism. This was primarily because friends of mine were refused consideration for government jobs because of ethnic prejudice and favoritism.

[Sublime Oblivion] Sublime News #7: Today, as Eurosceptic British Conservatives edge back towards power, we can see that the unintended result of German unification has actually been the emergence of a more British Europe: dramatically enlarged to the east, inter-governmental rather than federal, with Germany too calmly pursuing its own national interests in its own national way, like Britain and France. Come to think of it, Margaret Thatcher is the one who should be posting a message of thanks on Kohl’s 80th birthday website.

[The Heritage Foundation Papers: Commentary] Iran's Hostile Policies in Iraq | The Heritage Foundation: In addition to driving out Western troops and Western influence, the Tehran regime would prefer a weak and divided Iraq to an Iraq with a united and broad-based government. Even if such a govern­ment were not allied with the United States, it would pose an ideological threat to Iran's theocratic regime because it would demonstrate the viability of a secu­lar democratic system in a Shia-majority nation, thereby encouraging Iranian reformers and opposi­tion movements to increase their efforts to reduce the political power of Iran's unelected clerics.

[blog] GlobalSecurity.org - SITREP Situation Report | Hollow Jobs ...: The United States is the only nation positioned to provide the necessary leadership, but it is hobbled with international skepticism fueled by years of unilateral and overbearing initiatives. The Muslim world, in particular, is highly critical of .

[OrthodoxNet.com Blog] America Lost | OrthodoxNet.com Blog: As for our patriarch, I am concerned that his lack of a real flock to tend to has left him with too little responsibility and so he has fallen into the radical environmentalist agenda. I can sympathize that he is trying to reach out for help due to his precarious position, but it seems he is behaving like John VIII Paleologus in trying to unite with Rome due to the attacks of the Turks.

[The Heritage Foundation Papers] The Heritage Foundation's Research on FISA | The Heritage Foundation: Congress's 15-day extension of the Protect America Act puts intelligence-gatherers in an impossible situation. Congress must make the authorities in the Protect America Act permanent and enhance its provisions to provide retroactive and permanent liability protection to American businesses that cooperate with reasonable intelligence requests.

[Craig Murray] Craig Murray - Iraq Inquiry: The First Big Lie: Well, well who would have guessed, should we have not known after the brazilian UN diplomat Jose Bustani was outed by the Bolton/Bush team. He was a very good diplomat who might have succeeded, hence he was in the way of a war and had to be sidelined.

[SWJ Blog] Pentagon Study? Current Events in Iraq? Not so Fast... (SWJ Blog): efforts in Iraq were hobbled by a set of faulty assumptions, a flawed planning effort, and a continuing inability to create security conditions in Iraq that could have fostered meaningful advances in stabilization, reconstruction, and governance. With the best of intentions, the United States toppled a vile, dangerous regime but has been unable to replace it with a stable entity.

[Coyote Blog] Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Well, My Health Insurance Policy Just ...: When they impeached Clinton over a minor sexual imbroligo, and with their continued involvement in the private bedroom activites of private citizens, they created an environment where any transgression will completely hobble, if not completely ....

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Plebiscite on an Outlaw Empire | TomDispatch: Bush's dark success story has involved bringing his version of the United States into line with the look of the "rogue" enemies and terrorist groups he set out to destroy. By the time Americans went to the polls on November 7th, 2006 to repudiate his policies, he had given our country the ultimate in makeovers, creating the look of an Outlaw Empire.

[Jon Taplin's Blog] Obama's Patience at Jon Taplin's Blog: And our top-of-the-heap, free-market one world economy, Libertarian, neo-con leaders will be smiling right up ’til the moment they realize that they’ve sold their kids down the river…But no worries…they/we’ll all be dead by the time the shit hits the fan.

[The Heritage Foundation Papers: Economy] Time for a New International Game Plan | The Heritage Foundation: This negotiator might or might not have been the U.S., but if it were not, it would at least have been a country more in tune with U.S. and Georgian wishes and interests and not as fearful and beholden to Russia as the EU is. As a multilateral and global institution, it would have been a stronger voice for the geopolitically orphaned Georgia than either the EU or NATO was.

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