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Foreign policy wins Obama still can pull off
Published in The Boston Globe Ideas.
LAST MONTH, in a pre-Christmas surprise, the White House announced a major foreign policy breakthrough on a front that almost nobody was watching: Cuba and the United States were ending nearly a half century of hostility, after secret negotiations authorized by the president and undertaken with help from the pope. Lately, America's zigzagging on the grinding war in Syria and Iraq has attracted the most attention, but President Obama has punctuated his six years in power with a series of foreign policy flourishes, among them ending the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; launching an international military intervention in Libya; and a "reset" with Russia, which ultimately failed.
Time is running short. Obama has only two more years in office, and an oppositional Congress that will likely block any major domestic policy initiatives. But the president's opening with Cuba raises a question. What other foreign-policy rabbits might this lame-duck president try to pull out of his hat?
Obama often talks about the arc of his history and his legacy. And we know from history that presidents in the sunset of their terms often turn their focus to foreign policy, where they have a freer hand. The presidential drift abroad has been even more pronounced in administrations that face an opposition Congress and limited support for any ambitious domestic agenda items.
Despite keeping his promises to end two wars and to reestablish America's power to persuade, not just coerce, Obama has drawn some scorn as a foreign policy president. Poobahs across the spectrum from right to left have derided him for not having a policy (drifting on Syria, passively responding to the Arab Spring), for naively pursuing diplomacy (the reset with Russia, the pivot to Asia), for adopting his predecessor's militarism (the surge in Afghanistan, the war on ISIS).
But, free from any future elections, the president may finally be at liberty to engineer bigger symbolic moves, like the recent rapprochement with Cuba. He can even try for politically unpopular policy realignments that would ultimately benefit his successor.
So what bold gambits might Obama reach for in his final two years? We're talking here about unlikely developments, but ones that, with a push from a willing White House, could actually happen. Here's a look at what might be on Obama's wish list, and his real chances of grabbing any of these wonky Holy Grails.
A stand on torture
IN ITS WAR ON TERROR, America adopted a number of tactics that its leaders used to call un-American. Some of them appear here to stay, like remote-control bombing runs by robot planes (known by the anodyne moniker "drone strikes"), which have killed more than 2,400 people and have become the most common way Obama pursues suspected militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
But other tactics have lingered long after the White House has concluded they are counterproductive: most notably the use of torture, and the indefinite detention of enemies without charge or trial in the limbo prison at Guantanamo Bay. President George W. Bush, toward the end of his term, backtracked on both policies, quietly roping in the use of torture and exploring ways to shut down Gitmo. Obama has taken a more assertive moral stance on the issue, perhaps because he realized that America's treatment of detainees delivered a propaganda boon to its enemies—and increased the risk of similar mistreatment for American detainees. But though he ended torture, he hasn't settled the political debate, nor has he managed to close Guantanamo Bay.
This is one problem that Obama could resolve by fiat, if he were willing to deal with the inevitable political yelps. He could close Guantanamo Bay overnight, sending dangerous detainees to face trial in the United States, shipping others to allied states like Saudi Arabia, and releasing the rest (many of whom have spent more than a decade incarcerated). To those who would accuse him of putting America at risk by not detaining accused terrorists without charge forever, Obama could point to the US Constitution and shrug his shoulders. As for torture, some believe the best move would be to follow the South African model of a truth commission that airs all the grisly details, while granting immunity from prosecution to those who testify. Of course, critics of torture would decry the amnesty, and supporters would decry the release of narrative details.
Harvard political scientist Stephen Walt says to forget the truth commission. The simplest way for Obama to end one of the most contentious debates in America, he argues, is with a set of sweeping pardons for all those involved in torture. That could include officials from Bush on down, as well as leakers like Chelsea Manning. In an e-mail, Walt said such a move would be a "game changer," although one with odds so long that he put it in the category of "foreign policy black swans." "I regard it as very, very unlikely, but it would be a huge step," he said.
Presidential pardons could make clear that torture and extrajudicial detention were illegal mistakes, while simultaneously freeing whistle-blowers and closing the books on the whole affair. Obama could even wait until after the 2016 presidential election has been decided, altogether eliminating political risk.
A détente with North Korea
NORTH KOREA entered the news recently because of its alleged role in the Sony hack over the silly film "The Interview." But the hermit kingdom isn't a problem because of its leader Kim Jong-un's absurd cult of personality. No, North Korea poses a problem because it's a belligerent, opaque, hyper-militarized state that stands outside the international system and is armed with serious rockets, nuclear warheads, and a powerful military.
One fraught area remains the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. About 30,000 American personnel are deployed there, and North Korea routinely provokes deadly clashes to remind the world of its resolve.
If Obama could finally end the Korean war—officially just in a cease-fire since 1953—he would resolve the most dangerous flashpoint in Asia and perhaps the world. Kim Jong-un, like his father and grandfather, has an almost mythic status among villainous world leaders. Millions have suffered in North Korea's prison camps, and the militarized state maintains a hysterical level of propaganda that makes it stand out even among other "rogue" states. Even China, long the dynasty's primary backer, has begun to express irritation with North Korean's volatility.
But all this creates an opportunity, according to veteran Korea watchers. "There's an opportunity, oddly enough," says Barbara Demick, author of "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea." "It would require a bold gesture on somebody's part."
Kim Jong-un, third in the family dynasty, has lived abroad and appears more open-minded than his father, Demick says. More importantly, despite the anti-American rhetoric, North Korea might want to end its comparatively young feud with the United States, which dates only to the 1950s, to better protect itself from the local threat from its millennial rival China.
Earlier efforts at reconciliation in the early 1990s foundered and collapsed after Kim Jong-il cheated on an agreement to freeze his nuclear weapons program. Demick and other experts are more hopeful that his son will be more interested in negotiating. Three years after taking over, Kim Jong-un seems to have consolidated power. He has relaxed some control over private trade, and he executed a senior member of his own regime who was considered China's man in Pyongyang, asserting himself over rivals within his family and government.
"Unlike his father, Kim Jong-un doesn't seem to want to spend his whole life as the head of a pariah state," Demick says.
It's quite difficult to imagine North Korea doing an about face and becoming a friendly US ally in Asia, but surprising things have happened. Vietnam, just a few decades after its horrifying war with the United States, is now as warm to Washington as it is to Beijing. Obama could try to end one of the world's longest lingering hot wars by forging a peace treaty with Pyongyang.
A grand bargain with Iran
AMERICA'S RELATIONSHIP with Iran never recovered from the trauma of the US embassy takeover and hostage crisis of 1980. Iran, flush with oil cash and the messianic fervor of Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution, has been at the center of regional events ever since. Iran has been perhaps the most influential force in the Arab world, helping to form Hezbollah, prop up the Assad dictatorship in Syria, and foiling America's plans in Iraq.
Of late, attention has focused on negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, but that's arguably not the most problematic aspect of Iran's power in the region. A regional proxy war between two Islamic theocracies awash in petrodollars—Shia Iran and Sunni Iraq—has contaminated the entire Arab world. Resolving Iran's major grievances and reintegrating it into the regional security architecture would reduce tensions in several ongoing hot wars and dramatically reduce risks across the board.
Obama could seek an overall deal with Iran, in which Tehran and its Arab rivals would agree to separate spheres of influence in the region and the United States could reopen its embassy. A Tehran-Riyadh-Washington accord could signal a major realignment in the region and a move toward a more stable state order, and is actually possible—not likely, but possible.
The big protagonists here, Iran and Saudi Arabia, lose a lot of money in their proxy fighting. It's been 35 years since the 1979 Iranian revolution that brought the ayatollahs to power, and both sides—Riyadh's Sunni theocrats and Tehran's Shia ones—have learned that no matter what human and financial resources they pour in, they can't achieve regional hegemony. Eventually, they're going to have to coexist. Israel, meanwhile, has maintained a fever pitch about Iran, and should welcome a calming shift.
The trick for today's White House is what's going on internally in Iran. "My sense is that if Obama and Kerry could push a button and normalize relations with Iran they'd do so in a heartbeat," says Karim Sadjadpour, who studies Iran at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The biggest obstacle to normalization is not in Washington, it's in Tehran. When your official slogan for 35 years is 'Death to America,' it's not easy to make such a fundamental shift." But if Iran's president can find a way to de-fang the hard-liners in his own country, Sadjadpour believes, there'd be a strong constituency among the political elites in Iran and the United States for a grand bargain.
A step back from Israel
PRESIDENT AFTER presidenthas poured time and energy into a Middle East peace process that never works. Failures have cost America political prestige around the world. As more governments lose patience with the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, America has found itself defending the Israeli government at the United Nations even as the same Israeli government openly mocks Washington's agenda.
The bold move that the president could make—potentially changing the parameters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—would be not to invest more in some new variant of the peace process, but simply to care less. Cooling our relations with the Israeli government could reestablish the strategic calculations at the core of the relationship and remove the distracting secondary issues that have accumulated around it. Israel is one of America's closest military and economic allies, and the tightly woven relationship will survive a political shift. Obama could simply announce that the United States would no longer act as Israel's main international political advocate, and that we would be happy to let other actors try to negotiate agreements, as the Norwegians did in the early 1990s.
Such a move would not resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it would go a long way toward reducing costs for the United States. Washington doesn't need to own the baggage of its close allies. It could treat Israel like it treats the United Kingdom: as a special ally with extra privileges, but one whose bilateral conflicts are its own business.
"I realize that a president's hands are tied by Congress when it comes to Israel, but there is plenty that the president can do without congressional approval," says Diana Buttu, a lawyer and former adviser to the Palestinian Authority. She said that Obama has plenty of options, from using his bully pulpit to condemn Israeli actions to not blocking Palestinian UN resolutions.
Duke political scientist Bruce Jentleson suggests another kind of US surprise: incorporating Hamas into peace talks. "A delicate dance no matter what," he wrote in an e-mail. "But Middle East peace breakthroughs have usually been through the unexpected," like Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem, or the secretly negotiated Oslo Accords.
What Jentleson says of Middle East breakthroughs may well be true of other ones as well. Global politics never loses its capacity to catch us off guard, regularly delivering events that experts say are impossible. Only an inveterate optimist would bet money on any of these slim possibilities coming to pass. But only a fool would be certain that they won't.
Regional realignment with Hezbollah, Assad & Iran?
Hassan Laqqis, assassination scene. Source: Al Manar
There's been lots of talk about the regional consequences of the Iran nuclear deal, and of a realignment as the West realizes that it might prefer Assad in power to a jihadi-dominated rebel government or some version of the current punishing settlement. Ryan Crocker told The New York Times that the US should resume cooperating with Damascus against Salafi jihadis, and various analysts and diplomats have been speculating that Iran, Assad, Hezbollah, and the US share plenty of common interests. Saudi Arabia and Israel stand to lose if the US begins to behave like a mature superpower, collaborating where it sees fit rather than holding itself hostage to the agenda of small allies behave as peers rather than clients.
The latest trigger was yesterday's assassination of a Hezbollah official in Beirut. (Hassan Lakkis, according to Hezbollah's Al-Manar Television, played an important role in the fight against Israel; Reuters reports that Lakkis was fighting recently in Syria.) That killing once again raised the question of Hezbollah's broader direction. Has it provoked a maelstrom of jihadi attacks, retaliation for Hezbollah's role in the Syrian civil war? Or is the conflict in Syria playing out in the interests of Hezbollah, Assad and Iran?
I think there's some evidence that three years after a non-violent popular revolt against Assad's nasty dictatorship, Assad has finally managed the shape the conflict he wanted. He wiped out the non-violent resistance, the intellectuals and the pluralists, and continues to mass his firepower against the FSA rather than the jihadists. As a result, the conflict pits an authoritarian but non-sectarian dictatorship against a Sunni rebellion dominated by takfiri jihadists. Hezbollah entered the war supposedly to fight the sectarian jihadis over there before they made it over here, a la George W Bush. It sounded facile then, but now it sounds true; each time there's a bomb of assassination in Lebanon, it adds credence to Hezbollah's claim that it's on the side of a Middle Eastern order that tolerates multiple faiths and power-sharing, while on the other side Saudi and other Gulf money is supporting extremists who want to recreate the 7th Century Caliphate. Self-serving, but perhaps, true.
We've seen hints of change:
- An increase tempo of back-and-forth attacks in Lebanon.
- Stronger desire by Lebanese national institutions to contain the crisis.
- Reports that the US has shared intelligence with Lebanon in order to protect Hezbollah from attacks.
- A real push – in Track 2 and perhaps Track 1 diplomacy – to make the January talks in Geneva really amount to a negotiation for a settlement in Syria.
- The Iranian nuclear deal, which could calm anxieties about the regional Iran-Saudi cold/hot war, and allow for some tit-for-tat that could reduce global interest in the Syrian theater.
What should we look for as signals of a coming, substantive change?
- Rhetoric from Hassan Nasrallah that opens the door to a frigid détente with the US on some issues.
- Continuing restraint by Hezbollah in its response to attacks and assassinations.
- Agreements or accords that result from the vigorous outreach by Iran's foreign minister to the leaders of the Arab countries in the Gulf.
- Offers, even totally rhetorical ones, from Assad to cooperate with the US against the jihadi groups in Syria.
The interim Iranian nuclear agreement could easily collapse (Marc Lynch writes here about the enormous potential but also the need to remember that it could all come to naught), but it's a major opening. Iran has always been a more natural geopolitical ally for the US than the tiny oil-rich monarchies of the Arabian peninsula. It's hard to imagine a full realignment without an internal shift in the governance of Iran, but perhaps, that could occur with a political shift short of regime change. The most likely outcome is incremental, with Iran and the US finding more avenues of cooperation but stopping short of an open embrace. But even the prospect of a cooling in the US relationship with absolute monarchs of the Gulf and the hawkish establishment of Israel, in favor of a more pragmatic policy that leaves room to cooperate with all the region's heavyweights, has prompted a panic in Riyadh and Israel. That anxiety suggests it's a very real prospect, and one that in the long-term would serve to cool down the region.
How much to worry in Lebanon, once more?
After today's bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, how much should we worry that the war in Syria will engulf Lebanon? First, the usual caveat: I live here, and I have a vested interest Lebanon remaining viable and stable, so discount my analysis accordingly.
Nonetheless, nothing so far has changed my fundamental view that the major players in Lebanon want to preserve the existing order here, as combustible as it is. The attackers presumably come from the jihadist strain of the Syrian opposition; they have little invested in the Lebanese status quo and are willing to upend it. But the major actors with organizations in Lebanon, including the Sunnis who support the Syrian rebels, as well as the Hezbollah constituents who support the Syrian government, benefit from the truce in Lebanon. Beirut especially serves as a neutral area where all parties communicate with each other, raise funds, and do their political work.
Iran's immediate accusation of Israel supports this view: if Iran wanted to raise tensions, it would point at jihadists or Lebanese factions allied with the Syrian opposition. Instead, it pointed at Israel (just like Hezbollah did after the Dahieh bombing in August), a convenient and unifying enemy. Blaming Israel is a calming gesture; even if Hezbollah and Iran suspect a local or Syrian Sunni network, it deflates tension to pin the attack on Israel. And if Iran genuinely has evidence or believes Israel is responsible, that's all the better insofar as it minimizes the risk of hostilities taking root beyond Syria's borders.
In coming weeks, we should watch the rhetoric of Hassan Nasrallah; if he repeats his previous positions on the Syrian war, as I expect, that will signify that Hezbollah maintains its interest in a calm Lebanon. We also should watch the retaliation; small attacks against centers of jihadist activity would remain with the limited framework that, again, minimizes the chance of escalation.
Today's attack is certainly a worrisome development, since the apparent suicide bombers struck a diplomatic target. It will increase anxiety among all people in Lebanon, and will especially worry the civilians living in the Dahieh, who already suffered an indiscriminate attack in August that killed 20 people and wounded more than 100. These are not good things. But they don't guarantee that war will engulf Lebanon either. For that to happen, the established parties here – in particular Hezbollah and the Future Movement – would have to radically change their cost-benefit analysis. So far, I don't see that happening. Lebanon's future holds more simmering violence, like the back and forth bombings, assassinations, and occasional skirmishes we've seen so far in the Bekaa, Tripoli and Beirut; but not, I expect, outright conflict.
Iran's Vietnam?
[Published in Foreign Policy.]
ARSAL, Lebanon — For more than a year, leaders in Lebanon have anxiously eyed the murderous civil war in Syria, wondering whether it would leap across the border and engulf the small, fractious country. And yet, it is Lebanon that now has jumped decisively into the fray, with Hezbollah's help apparently crucial to the Syrian regime's strategy and survival.
Uniformed Hezbollah fighters openly patrol the northern reaches of Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, fighting on either side of the increasingly porous border with Syria. Rocket and mortar teams target Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters a few miles away, and Lebanese Hezbollah infantry fighters crisscross the "Shiite villages" surrounding the city of Qusayr just across the border in Syria, which now forms one of the pivot points of the conflict.
The fighting around Qusayr has brought into the open the parlor game over whether Iran and Hezbollah are active combatants in Syria's war. In an April 30 speech, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah hinted at greater involvement from the Lebanese paramilitary group in Syria, warning that the regime had "real friends" who would prevent Syria from "fall[ing] into the hands" of the United States and Israel.
The thunder of artillery fire in the mountains flanking the Beqaa Valley, like the spate of no-longer-hidden Hezbollah funerals, make clear that Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors have crossed a Rubicon. They are now fully vested factions in the Syrian civil war, and they're committed to an open and escalating fight.
Not 20 miles from Hezbollah's position as the crow flies, FSA fighters flee across the border to the Sunni village of Arsal, nestled north in the Beqaa Valley in the mountains separating Lebanon and Syria. They make no distinction between the Syrian army, Hezbollah, and Iran — because, they say, they get shot at by all three.
"We could have common interests with Hezbollah, but they're attacking us. Now there are grudges, which we will have to settle after the war," said Shehadeh Ahmed Sheikh, 24, a self-described mortar man in the FSA. He was sitting cross-legged on the floor of an unfinished home in Arsal. Sheikh had brought with him 16 members of his extended family after their house in Qusayr had been destroyed earlier that week; as we talked, they squatted around him in the dwelling, which they had been assigned to by Arsal's mayor.
Like many Sunnis in the area, he referred to Hezbollah, whose name means "the Party of God" in Arabic, as Hezb al-Shaitan — "the Party of Satan."
By supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the hilt, Hezbollah and Iran are risking their hard-won reputation as stewards of an anti-Israel and anti-U.S. alliance that transcends sect and nationality. Syrian combatants increasingly understand the war in sectarian terms: On one side there is the Sunni majority; on the other side, other sects and a small group of Sunnis that have made common cause with the Alawite regime.
Western diplomats estimate that a few thousand Hezbollah fighters are involved in the Syrian fighting. Close observers of the group, which carefully guards its operational structure, say that they mistrust any precise numbers. But if Hezbollah has sent hundreds, or even a few thousand, of its best-trained fighters to Syria, that deployment certainly represents a significant percentage of its fighting force. During its 2006 war with Israel, the highest estimate of Hezbollah fighters killed was about 700, with the group's own official death toll closer to 300.
Sunnis are increasingly framing the conflict as a sectarian jihad. The influential Lebanese Salafi cleric Ahmad Al-Assir has set up his own militia, suggesting his fighters would be just as willing to confront Hezbollah in Lebanon as they already are to travel to Syria to fight alongside the rebels there. Supporters of the regime and Hezbollah point out that the rebellion tolerates Sunni fundamentalist extremists whereas Assad and Hezbollah rely on a time-tested alliance of minorities, including Alawites, Christians, Druze, and Shiite Muslims. The propaganda of both sides has sharpened a narrative of the Syrian conflict as a struggle between Sunni extremists and old-style authoritarians, who at least protect the minorities they exploit. Deadly identity politics have taken root, and people on both sides of the conflict see it more and more as a matter of survival. Sheikh, the young Sunni fighter, planned to return to battle as soon as he settled his family: "We cannot go back to the way things were before."
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On the eve of the uprisings just three short years ago, many Arab analysts observed half-jokingly that the most influential state in the Arab world wasn't Arab at all — it was Iran, awash in oil revenues and ready to lavish cash on a region in the throes of an increasingly hot Sunni-Shiite cold war. Sunni monarchs and dictators fretted about a "Shiite Crescent" linking Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Hezbollah. Tehran, for its part, strutted triumphantly across the Arab stage, bragging about an unstoppable "Axis of Resistance" oiled with ideological fervor and the supreme leader's bank account.
What a difference a few uprisings can make. Today, Iran's involvement in Syria has all the makings of a quagmire, and certainly represents the Islamic Republic's biggest strategic setback in the region since its war with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ended in 1988. Syria's conflict has begun to attract so much attention and resources that it threatens to end the era when Iran could nimbly outmaneuver the slow-moving American behemoth in the Middle East.
Iran — already reeling from sanctions — is spending hundreds of millions of dollars propping up Bashar al-Assad's regime. In the murky arena of sub rosa foreign intervention, it's impossible to keep a detailed count of the dollars, guns, and operatives the Islamic Republic has dispatched to Syria. Westerners and Arab officials who have met in recent months with Syrian government ministers say that Iranian advisers are retooling key ministries to provide copious military training, including to the newly established citizen militias in regime-controlled areas of Syria. "We back Syria," Iranian General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan reiterated on May 5. "If there is need for training we will provide them with the training."
In private meetings, Iranian diplomats in the region project insouciance, suggesting that the Islamic Republic can indefinitely sustain its military and financial aid to the Assad regime. To be sure, its burden today is probably bearable. But as sanctions squeeze Iran and it comes under increasing pressure over its nuclear program, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) might find the investment harder to sustain. The conflict shows no signs of ending, and as foreign aid to the rebels escalates, Iran will have to pour in more and more resources simply to maintain a stalemate. If this is Iran's Vietnam, we're only beginning year three.
The cost of Tehran's support of Assad can't entirely be measured in dollars. Iran has had to sacrifice most of its other Arab allies on the Syrian altar. As the violence worsened, Hamas gave up its home in Damascus and its warm relationship with Tehran. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government has also adopted a scolding tone toward Iran on Syria. On Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy's first visit to Tehran, he took the opportunity to blast the "oppressive regime" in Damascus, saying it was an "ethical duty" to support the opposition.
Gone are the days when Iran held the mantle of popular resistance. Popular Arab movements, including Syria's own rebels, now have the momentum and air of authenticity. Iran's mullahs finally look to the Arab near-abroad as they long have appeared at home — repressive, authoritarian, and fierce defenders of the status quo.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Iran's commitment to Assad has put the crown jewel of its assets in the Arab world, Hezbollah, in danger. Just a few years ago, a survey found that Nasrallah was the most popular leader in the Arab world. Along with other members of the "resistance axis," Hezbollah mocked the rest of the Arab world's political movements as toadies and collaborators, happy to submit to American-Israeli hegemony. Today, however, it has sacrificed this popular support and enraged Sunnis across the Arab world by siding with a merciless dictator.
Hezbollah used to try to cultivate allies from all sects, so that it wouldn't seem to be pursuing a purely Shiite agenda, but it now appears in the eyes of the Arab world to have cast its lot — hook, line, and sinker — with a brutal minority regime in Syria over a popular, largely Islamist movement. A Pew survey last year found that the group's popularity was declining in predominantly Sunni countries such as Egypt and Jordan, while Lebanese Sunnis and Christians also increasingly soured on the party.
In the border town of Hermel, usually secretive Hezbollah fighters have openly mobilized. They fight on both sides of the border, protecting a ring of Shiite villages in Syria that connect Damascus to the Alawite heartland. An untold number of Hezbollah fighters have been killed in Syria — so many that the movement has stopped keeping the funerals secret and has even released videos of some of the martyrs. "We bury our martyrs in the open," Nasrallah said in his recent speech. "We are not ashamed of them."
Hezbollah positions in Hermel were shelled on May 12, and the Sunni jihadist Nusra Front reportedly claimed responsibility. In their rhetoric, Lebanese politicians have sought to downplay the sectarian nature of the fight in Syria, and there are plenty of individuals who say they have chosen sides out of interest or ideology, rather than sect. Yet to most of its participants, the conflict has taken on an undeniably sectarian hue: an almost entirely Sunni rebellion, against a regime supported by the majority of Syria's other sects.
"There's no difference between Hezbollah, the army, and the Syrian regime," scoffed Mustafa Ezzedine, a driver in Arsal who was recently dragged into the conflict as a literal hostage, kidnapped because he was a Sunni Muslim by a Shiite clan that wanted one of its own kidnapped members released. It doesn't matter that among his guests at a recent, lazy hashish-fueled afternoon tea was a member of that same rival clan: sectarian politics have little regard for personal views. For residents of the Beqaa Valley, the war in Syria has already drifted across the border, and they fear it could get worse quickly.
The regional stakes are high as well. On at least one occasion, the Syrian conflict has cost an Iranian military commander his life. In mid-February, a shadowy IRGC officer responsible for overseeing Iranian reconstruction projects in Lebanon who went by the names Hessam Khoshnevis and Hassan Shateri was killed on the road from Damascus to Beirut. Iran put out the story that Israel assassinated their man, but Western and Arab officials told me they had seen reliable intelligence reports that it was a Syrian rebel ambush.
A who's who of Lebanese politicians paid condolences at the Iranian embassy, and Hezbollah's number two, Naim Qassem, delivered a long tribute to the fallen IRGC offer at a memorial service in an underground theater in Beirut's Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs. It was the latest sign that Hezbollah is willing to risk everything in supporting the Syrian dictator — and that Iran just may ask its Lebanese ally to fight to the end, or go down with the ship.
"We would be nothing without Iran!" Qassem thundered in his tribute. "Others hide the foreign funds they receive. We proudly open our hands to Iran's gifts. What the resistance needs, they provide."
Iran on Israel's border
For as long as I've been covering this region, there have been some Israeli officials who describe Hezbollah as a crack division of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and conclude that Iran has literally surrounded Israel.
In the war of rhetoric and symbols, Iran appears only too happy to oblige.
This weekend I visited "Iran Park" in Maroun Al Ras, the Lebanese border village where one of the first and nastiest engagements of the 2006 war was fought. Israeli ground troops got bogged down for days on the ridge at Maroun, and Hezbollah fighters consider it one of their finer engagements of the war.
The Iranian government has funded and designed a lush park near the site of the battle, on the mountainside directly overlooking Israel. In the parking, visitors can stand at an observation point beside an Iranian flag fluttering in the wind, and look directly down at the Israeli hamlets of Avivim and Yir'on.
Through an arcade of ponsiana trees and an arch, past a commemorative plaque crediting President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad with gifting the park to the Lebanese, visitors find terraced playgrounds and picnic spots refreshed with the mountain breeze.
There's soft-serve ice-cream trucks, grills, and replica of the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem – naturally, topped with an Iranian flag as well. Presumably, Israelis down in the valley can look up and see the Iranian flags and the replica Jerusalem mosque.
Along the path, detailed placards provided educational information about Iran – its population, its provinces, the neighborhoods of Tehran, and so on.
On Sunday mourning the park was already nearly full by 10 a.m. with families that had come to enjoy the cooler temperatures of Jabal Amal.
Three families from the humid coast had assembled under one of the palm-frond roof picnic stations, setting in for a long day grilling and eating.
"Coffee?" said Jihan Muselmani, 35.
"We come here for the clean air," said Najua Khanafer, 52. "We thank all those who work for our land. Sayed Hassan, Iran, Qatar."
"This will be the first place the Israelis destroy during the next war," said Jihan.
"Even if they destroy it, we will build it up again," said Rabab Haidar, 28.
"If you won't have coffee, you must at least try these apples," Jihan insisted, clutching a plastic tub of tiny green fruit. "They come from our own tree."
Iran's Greens in New York
This coming Saturday, April 17, a group of new generation Iranian activists is gathering at Columbia University for a public forum that intends, ambitiously, to reinvigorate the Iranian Green movement. One of the organizers, a Columbia SIPA graduate student named Mehdi Jalali, told me that he and several other young exiled Iranians want to assert a leading role in the opposition to Iran's theocracy.
"We are a different generation. We do not have the same ideologies of our parents," Jalali said. "And because we live abroad, we are free to organize without interference from the regime."
Jalali's father is a cleric, but he became a critic of the ayatollahs and an advocate for secular rule. He also embraced the use of television and new media; once forced into exile, he hosted a political talk show in Farsi on satellite television.
Entitled "New Generation, New Perspectives, New Media," the forum will include a lot of prominent and articulate Iranian voices. It's bound to be interesting.
Here's the invitation:
As a unique historic event bringing together a unique set of young thought leaders on Iran, this event should be of significant value to all those with an active academic or strategic interest in the future of social change, media and the young generation in Iran.
What sets this forum apart from traditional conferences is the active role of the audience in shaping the discourse. In the morning sessions, panelists will provide discussion openers on critical issues related to various aspects of social change in Iran and engage the audience (both present and online) in an in-depth collaborative discussion on these topics during the afternoon sessions. Leveraging the power of Tweets, live blogging, and real-time videocasting technologies, the final product of the forum will be a set of collaborative artifacts generated by the speakers and the participants throughout the day.
Panelists include:
· Ali Afshari (Former Head, DaftarTahkimVahdat, Largest Iranian Pro-reform student group)
· Masih Alinejad (Journalist and Blogger)
· Maziar Bahari (Newsweek Correspondent and Filmmaker)
· Nazila Fathi (New York Times Reporter)
· Mehdi Jalali (Political Commentator)
· Omid Memarian (Journalist and Blogger)
· Roozbeh Mirebrahimi (Journalist, Author and Blogger)
· Ali Mostashari (Academic)
· Kelly Niknejad (Founder Tehran Bureau News Website)
· Trita Parsi (President, NIAC)
· Karim Sadjadpour (Associate, Carnegie Endowment for Peace)
· Mehdi Yahyanejad (Founder, Balatarin.com)
. Austin Heap (Haystack- campaign against Iranian government's web filtering mechanisms)
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Escale Oceania Vannes features multilingual staff, room service (during limited hours), and a television in the lobby. Event facilities measuring 807 square feet (75 square meters) include conference space. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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Very comfortable with friendly staff. The rooms had excellent double glazing and effective air conditioning, it would have been noisy if we had had to sleep with the windows open. I had my wallet pinched (not at the hotel) and the hotel staff were very helpful in helping sort out stopping cards and going to the Police etc. We did not eat there so cant comment on the food - Dinah
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Pearl Harbor Trilogy is a re-interpretation of Legendo's popular PC title "Attack on Pearl Harbor" - with the first episode, "Red Sun Rising," planned for a winter 2009 release on WiiWare.
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text: Dramatic Lash Kit is rated 4.1209 out of 5 by 91. Rated 5 out of 5 by Belly17 from These are awesome!! I'm usually lazy to write reviews but these are so worth trying! Date published: 2014-12-01 Rated 5 out of 5 by LimoBarbie from Excellent and cheap lashes--but toss the glue!! Buy the clear eyelash glue at Wal-mart and toss out the glue that comes with this. You can cover the last band with eyeshadow in any color, just smoosh the shadow into the band BEFORE applying mascara! These are easy to apply and once you learn HOW they are quick, easy and VERY REUSABLE. Remove by splashing warm water on your eyes and peel off gently. Toss them in a cup of HOT water for a few minutes and "shampoo" them gently with a drop of shampoo in the palm of your hand. The glue will pick off very easily after being soaked in hot water and set them on a flat surface and use your nail to push the center so that they "re-curve" and then let them dry. I can use 1 pair for up to a MONTH if I do this before they get "fuzzy" looking. Apply a thin line of the clear-drying glue and using tweezers, tack down the center FIRST, as close as possible to your lash line, Then tack down each end while "backing" the lash band into your lash line. Sweep them upward before the glue dries for the longer look and Voila! If the edge should lift, put a TINY bit of glue on the end of a pointed nail file and slide it under the loose end to apply and then using tweezers, tack it down again. I SLEEP in these and they don't come off until I shower/bathe and remove them with water. Date published: 2014-11-26 Rated 1 out of 5 by anjj from Worst I've tried TOO long and fake looking. didn't bend up right. Band was too weak Date published: 2014-11-09 Rated 5 out of 5 by Samantha mom to 8 from Sweet I bought 5 pairs and I'm very happy I did but wish I'd bought 10 pairs Date published: 2014-10-21 Rated 2 out of 5 by libbyyyttt from meh I bought this because I have tiny eyelashes so mascara doesn't really cut it and I thought these would save me money I wore them 3 times and twice to school and around my 3rd class they completely off!!! They are amazing lashes don't get me wrong but elf please make a stronger glue because it only lasts about and hour and a half but look amazing Date published: 2014-10-16 Rated 5 out of 5 by santas helper from LOVE the eyelashes...not the glue I got these a couple weeks ago and i love them. the length might be long for some people so trimming is a must. i wear them maybe once or twice a week for about a month and i think i got like a few more wears out of them. the only bad thing is the glue which isn't that important unless you have oily lids like me...if so then just use another glue Date published: 2014-09-25 Rated 5 out of 5 by LimoBarbie from I have been wearing these DAILY for 8 years Great lashes. Tips: APPLY WITH TWEEZERS AND USE YOUR OWN GLUE THE INCLUDED GLUE IS TERRIBLE. They can be moved and adjusted while wet. If you splash your eyes with warm water they come right off. Shampoo them in your palm like a contact lens with mild soap. I get 10-15 wearings per set. Remove from lash tray with tweezers-GENTLY!! I sleep in them with no issues. If lash is crooked, peel that part off and use a toothpick to put glue on band and reapply correctly. Practice makes perfect. Soaking them in hot water makes old glue easy to pick off. Date published: 2014-08-25 Rated 5 out of 5 by mishia1908 from These are hands down the best lashes ever! I wear thse lashes every day and at this price I am able to put on a fresh pair, although they can be reused! I get compliments all the time about how natural they look! I am addicted! Date published: 2014-06-25 Rated 3 out of 5 by akPhilly from A bit too unrealistic These just looked a bit too fake to me. I like lashes where it's pretty obvious they're fake, but these were just too much so. I think it's because the inner lashes are too similar in length to the middle & outer lashes, plus they seem a bit too blunt at the ends. The band is really long, but that can be cut. They really glue them to the tray too much IMO, which can make them difficult to take off & leave excess glue on the band. Which you can pick off, but if you're not careful it can mess up the band. The band is also a bit too straight when you remove them from the tray, like there's no curve at all to them which makes them a bit difficult to apply. However they do look a bit better in photos than they do in person, & for $1 it's worth a shot, & can be used when trying out a look if you don't want to use your 'good' lashes. Date published: 2014-06-10 Rated 5 out of 5 by tinydancer from the best i have used dozens and dozens of brands and styles of lashes and i keep coming back to these not because they are only $1 (compared to other quality lashes which are up to $8 a pair) but because they are so good. i normally get 3-4 wears out of each pair. if you have experience putting lashes on these are like the easiest to apply ever. the band is so flexible so it doesn't pop off your eyelid until the glue sets. if this is your first time putting on lashes don't get frustrated. it takes a good bit of practice but just know that these are the easiest out there. I have smaller eyes so i trim about 1/4" off of the outside of them before i put the glue on (i do this with almost all lashes). also, they are perfect for day and night because they have a natural look. my only complaint is that the glue that they come with doesn't work very well so i always use another brand of glue. Date published: 2014-05-06 Rated 5 out of 5 by shelbsssss from Excellent lashes! I've never used false lashes before, so I was a bit nervous to use these (especially since they were so cheap). Turns out, I LOVE THEM! I have used them multiple times and have no issue applying them, and removing is just as easy and pain free! Also, they don't feel heavy on my eyes, which is fantastic! After a while I even forgot I had them on. They are definitely dramatic and really help elevate my makeup look without breaking the bank! Date published: 2014-05-04 Rated 5 out of 5 by shanimc from Awesome lashes I dont wear false eyelashes very often at all (maybe twice a year) because usually theyre a disaster. These lashes are amazing. They are quite long and thick, but why else would you want to use fake lashes unless you want them long and thick ? Totally recommend this product. Date published: 2014-04-29 Rated 1 out of 5 by lillian from falls off! when I put these on my eyes with the glue. they always will fall off with one use an hour! I will be walking to work and one is on there but one is not! Date published: 2014-02-26 Rated 5 out of 5 by LashaholicLashelle from Glue Sucks Lashes Are Beautiful My name is Lashelle and I am a Lashaholic! Because I wear lashes every day all day.... I need a lash that will last all day and I need an inexpensive product. I don't have time to try and salvage a pair of $10 lashes for reuse. Elf lashes are reusable ( with care), but I don't feel the pressure of having to. I use to clear the rack off at my local big box store now I order online. Elf can save us all money by putting two sets of lashes in the pack instead of that useless glue. I use my own glue. Date published: 2014-01-21 Rated 5 out of 5 by ConnerIsCatastrophic from BEST EYELASHES EVER!!! I absolutely love these lashes. I bought these lashes a bit skeptical on how they'd work but once I applied them with the glue it came with they came out perfect. I use these lashes everyday, whether going to school or going out. I use a little bit of the E.L.F. Defining and Lengthening mascara with this and they look perfect. I will be purchasing a whole lot more sense they are very affordable. Date published: 2013-12-23 Rated 4 out of 5 by CuteyPatuty from Nice Very cute, looks nice. Not the easiest to apply. Use a DIFFERENT glue, the one that comes with is terrible!! Date published: 2013-08-21 Rated 4 out of 5 by Millie Muffintop from Super easy application for novices The dramatics "bend" easier so they are super easy to apply for falsie novices. These are durable and can be worn over and over again as long as they are removed carefully. The dramatics are longer than the naturals but less dense, so they appear less lush. DO NOT use the glue that comes with them. Terrible. Date published: 2013-07-21 Rated 5 out of 5 by Dance Mom from Great eyelashes..Great deal..Easy to use We started using these for my daughter for her dance competitions. We originally got reusable ones that cost 7X as much and she got a stye...3 times! Someone recommended ELF and we've used them for 4 yrs now. (She hasn't had one stye since she started using them!) They are very economical! (I buy about 25 sets for the dance season!) My daughter even puts them on herself!! (If she can do it starting at age 10, they ARE easy to apply!!) They last ALL DAY and look great!! I have recommended them to all our dance moms! Date published: 2013-07-01 Rated 4 out of 5 by Gabbi from Great Eyelashes I bought these to see what was all the craze about! And I tried putting them on but it was hard.But through all that pulling off and one the eyelashes stayed on! I ended up throwing them away b/c I got so frustrated. I'm willing to buy them again though. I was a noob at putting them on!:P These should be called Natural and the other eyelash kits should be Dramatic! Date published: 2013-06-19 Rated 4 out of 5 by Maris from Best inexpensive lashes! I'm not much of a false lash girl, but I love these! I bought two, One I tested at home because I never used them before, and the second pair I wore out, lasted pretty well and they are the only pair of false eyelashes that dont look ridiculous on me! Ive tried Ardell lashes and they look fake on me, these almost look natural even though they are named "dramatic". Well worth buying! I only give 4 stars because they are pretty much a one time use, maybe twice if you take care of them. Date published: 2013-03-30 Rated 3 out of 5 by erika from good but not for me really is Dramatic! Too long for my taste, but for the price is a good deal to experiment with. I would recommend if Dramatic is the look you are going for, but I prefer a more natural look. overall, it's a good product. Glue is okay, it's a teeny bottle, but it made the lashes stay in place with no problem, but I did use a lot of the ELF glue to make sure it stayed. removal was simple. Date published: 2013-03-30 Rated 1 out of 5 by India from Bleh The tip of each hair is too blunt. They just appear badly fake. The band does not retain its curve once it's pulled from the plastic. To get use out of these, I cut them each into 3 short strips and razored the tips of the hairs to taper them more. I apply them to the outer corners of my eyes with Ardell Lash Duo glue. I use heavy black liquid eyeliner to blend them, since the band is large and black. They were good for two uses. After that they were warped and lost hairs. I just didn't have a good experience with these. Date published: 2013-03-25 Rated 5 out of 5 by zailiah from Dramatic Lash Kit These are a great and easy way to play up your eyes without them looking silly or too fake. They only take a minute or two to aplly and they stay put all day. The little glue is small enough though that you can cary it with you incase of lifting. Date published: 2013-02-19 Rated 1 out of 5 by Adena from Worst Lashes These lashes are terrible and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. They look beautiful in the packaging, but taking these things off their base completely ruins the curve of the lash line, making it very difficult to apply. The lash glue that comes with doesn't work either. Not impressed with this product. Date published: 2013-02-15 Rated 4 out of 5 by Dtnj06 from great for the price I found these great for an everyday look just use a better glue and it will work out better Date published: 2013-02-04 Rated 5 out of 5 by The Beauty from Love these lashes! These lashes give what they say they do, drama! They are gorg, affordable, and reusable. Definitely my go-to lashes. Would buy again. Date published: 2013-01-03 Rated 2 out of 5 by Diamond Kha'tor from Not dramatic at all I was very disappointed because I was expecting something BOLD. The name is very desiving. Date published: 2012-12-22 Rated 5 out of 5 by Stacey from So worth it ! Omg im never buying drug store ones again. I just wore these today all day and they were amazing. Theninly thing is dont use their glue. Buy your own and these will work amazing. Idk why people complain that thry are flimsy you have to br super lazy to not even try lol i put mines on in 2 mins Date published: 2012-12-19 Rated 4 out of 5 by Liz the MUA from Great Lashes, Bad Glue I'm a lash queen! As a MUA, these are great. Most of my clients want dramatic lashes and are pleased for their special events. For me, these would be everyday lashes. Sometimes I like to put 2-3 pairs on at once for a more dramatic effect. I buy these 15-20 at a time. MUA, I urge you to buys these in bulk. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The glue is terrible. No staying power at all. Use Duo with these. Date published: 2012-12-08 Rated 5 out of 5 by Lucia from Um AMAZING These are amazing i bought 7 of them and the word for them is AWESOME Date published: 2012-11-25 Dramatic Lash Kit Reviews - page 3 2015-03-29T13:54CST bvseo_cps, prod_bvrr, vn_cps_3.1.1 cp_2, bvpage2n co_hasreviews, tv_0, tr_91 loc_en_US, sid_1110, PRD, sort_mostRecent clientName_elfcosmetics


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