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The world must now send its regime a clear message: stop destabilizing the
region
and help your own people to prosper.
For years, key states in the
region
– some of them, like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, darlings of the West – have essentially paid protection money to jihadists.
Yes, America’s wars in the
region
– as destructive as they were stupid – bear a substantial part of the blame for the mayhem now engulfing the Fertile Crescent.
For years, the Wahhabis of Arabia have been the fountainhead of Islamist radicalism and the primary backer and facilitator of extremist groups throughout the
region.
That raises an obvious question: When regimes in the
region
collaborate with terrorist groups, how can intelligence cooperation with them, let alone a coalition to fight Islamic extremism, be credible?
Indeed, even if such a division of labor could be agreed, a ground invasion that denies ISIS its territorial base in Iraq and Syria would merely push it to redeploy in a
region
that is collapsing into various no man’s lands.
It would eventually stir up mass sympathy for the caliphate throughout the region, thus providing ISIS with a propaganda victory and further inspiration for alienated young Muslims in Europe and elsewhere to fight the "Crusaders" and the Muslim "traitors" aligned with them.
For now, turning the caliphate into yet another failed state in the
region
seems to be the best possible outcome.
Rooted in ancient enmities and the legacy of the colonial era, the fighting is damaging the entire
region.
Given the unattractiveness of choosing between a pre-emptive attack on Iran or allowing Iranian nuclear weapons to destabilize the Gulf region, Obama has pledged to conduct a broad diplomatic dialogue with Iran without the preconditions that hampered Bush.
Indeed, even Cuba’s supposed allies in the
region
refrained from urging Santos to invite Castro.
If we compare ourselves to the rest of Latin America, the truth is that we have done things very well, especially in the last 25 years, during which we went from being one of the poorest countries on the continent to having the highest per capita income in the
region.
But, while the killing of the 11 congressmen from Cali
region
– attributed to “crossfire’” during an attack by an “unidentified military group”the leftist rebels – provoked shock and anger, there was no agreement on how to solve the chronic problem of “El Secuestro” (The Kidnapping).
And the Democratic Union Party – the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting a guerrilla war against the Turkish state for the last three decades – is on its way toward establishing a Kurdish autonomous
region
along Turkey’s Syrian border.
According to the World Bank, 37% of women in the
region
have a bank account, compared to 48% of men.
Crop yields in the
region
lag far behind global averages, in part because women are unable to invest enough in their operations.
Their platform includes: Islamist revolution in every country;Iran as the region’s dominant state, backed up by nuclear weapons; no peace with Israel and no Palestinian state until there can be an Islamist one encompassing all of Israel (as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip); and the expulsion of Western influence from the
region.
The emphasis should be on building coalitions among the relatively moderate states that are threatened by radical Islamist forces, and on working hard to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons – a goal that is in the interests of many in the
region.
The current crisis in Gaza is only one aspect of the much wider battle shaking the
region.
Now, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, he is shrewdly forcing a divided and risk-averse West to choose between war and accommodation.
It is increasingly likely that Saakashvili's policy is aimed at instigating bloodshed in South Ossetia or Abkhazia and putting all the blame on Russia - a strategy that appears designed to bring the Americans to the
region
eventually.
Lastly, Japan is gaining influence in the
region
by inching away from its post-war “peace constitution.”
The government has also revised security laws to allow exports of weapons technology to its partners in the region, thereby buttressing their defense capabilities.
China’s goal is to prevent ASEAN members from uniting against it and to diminish the role of international law in a
region
where it seeks strategic dominance.
Unfortunately, cost-cutting prevailed across the board and across the region, inciting serious consequences for the emancipation of women.
Single mothers are among the worst-off groups in the region, particularly in Poland and the former East Germany.
Maintaining the cooperation of the dominant tribes in each
region
will be essential to building a stable post-Qaddafi Libya.
New Moscow-Beijing Ties Worry AsiaTOKYO: The emerging "strategic partnership" between Russia and China, symbolized by President Jiang Jemin’s visit to Moscow in April, has significant implications for diplomacy and the military balance of power throughout the Asia-Pacific
region.
The new "partners" should be watched with vigilance, not because presidents Jiang and Yeltsin have agreed to coordinate their strategies in the region, as many now believe, but because Moscow seems unaware of the negative role it is playing.
Russia, indeed, is nowadays forced to rely upon China as it attempts to increase its role in the Asia-Pacific
region.
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