America needs game-changer: In the Middle East, America is in what chess players call zugzwang, where any move it makes loses, and the situation in the Korean Peninsula is even more dismal, writes David P. Goldman, who argues that America needs a game-changer. Innovation is the most destructive force known to man, argues Goldman, and if America can restore this to its economy, it will be China’s turn to worry. READ THE STORY HERE
Russia wants Iran to receive full membership in a geopolitical organization designed as a partial counterweight to NATO and other western pacts, a move that would likely deepen the economic and military ties between the two governments. – Washington Examiner
Emanuele Ottolenghi and Saeed Ghasseminejad write: The U.S. should not sell any aircraft to Aseman until Iran stops using commercial airliners for its military airlifts to Syria. Otherwise, we cannot rule out the possibility that this Iranian airline might fly U.S.-made commercial airplanes to assist Tehran’s war machine in Syria. – Real Clear Defense
Emanuele Ottolenghi and Saeed Ghasseminejad write: The U.S. should not sell any aircraft to Aseman until Iran stops using commercial airliners for its military airlifts to Syria. Otherwise, we cannot rule out the possibility that this Iranian airline might fly U.S.-made commercial airplanes to assist Tehran’s war machine in Syria. – Real Clear Defense
Analysis: The world seems awash in chaos and uncertainty, perhaps more so than at any point since the end of the Cold War…These challenges have been crystallized, propelled and intensified by a conflagration once dismissed in the West as peripheral, to be filed, perhaps, under “Muslims killing Muslims”: the war in Syria. – New York Times
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