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The Politically Incorrect Guide to U.S. Interests in the Middle East - By Aaron David Miller. Foreign policy, including the use of military power, isn't an end in itself. It consists of tools and instruments designed to achieve specific and hopefully well-thought-out ends. Those ends -- let's call them interests -- are theoretically supposed to drive a country's foreign-policy strategy. Sounds pretty simple, right? So what are America's interests in the Middle East? These are really good questions, and they're not asked nearly enough. Today, if you take the Russian bogeyman out of the picture (sorry Mitt), add Islamists and counterterrorism, and subtract a few Arab dictators and authoritarians, U.S. interests remain pretty much the same. And despite all the charges of bias, dysfunction, and incompetence leveled at the United States, the country has actually done a pretty good job at protecting those interests.

But hey, you know what? Indeed, had it not been for President George W. Listen to how Obama answers the question. The only problem is: The country doesn't. 1. 2. 3. 4. Western Philosophy. Consumismo. La Era de la estupidez. China’s President Pushes Back Against Western Culture. Historia del mundo en 3 minutos. Oddity Archive & 10 Odd and Weird History Facts. The Blue Fugates Troublesome creek in the state of Kentucky, U.S.A was not famous for any trouble as the name suggests, but for an odd family that lived in this wilderness.

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