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If 2011 Was a Turbulent Year for Obama’s Foreign Policy, 2012 Looks Set to Be Worse

The foreign policy crisis horizon shows little respect for the calendar New Year: The Obama Administration ought to have a pretty good idea of the crises that await it in different global hotspots as it braces for election year, 2012. But a recurring theme in the current menu of challenges, whether in the Middle East, north or south Asia, Africa or Europe, is the declining leverage available to Washington to shape favorable outcomes.

President Obama's reelection prospects may be in part shaped by events from America's shores, and yet in most cases the outcome of those events will be determined by others. If 2011 seemed unusually turbulent, 2012 — well, best fasten that seatbelt.

Herewith, a survey of the top ten global crisis issues facing the U.S. in the new year.
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    More Taxes, Please: We’re French

    Europe may be agonizing amid the worst financial crisis since the Second World War, but that still isn’t forcing France to accept the logic of economic liberalism that dominates much of world. That largely “Anglo-Saxon” view has long criticized the cherished French welfare state as too expensive, untenable, uncompetitive, and increasingly indebted–and now sees it as virtually doomed by an inevitable starvation diet that reality has imposed. But as they are prone to do now and again, the French are begging to differ with the rest of the world—and are doing so by defending a social system that’s a deep source of national pride in ways many societies wouldn’t stand for.
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    Human rights | December 26, 2011

    In China, a Christmas Crackdown on Dissent

    Christmas means different things around the world, but in China one of the things it’s come to stand for crackdown. In recent years Chinese courts have chosen the holiday season as the time to hand down the harshest sentences to political dissenters, possibly in the belief that their rulings will received the least attention abroad. On Dec. 26 a court in the southwestern city of Guiyang sentenced longtime dissident Chen Xi to 10 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power,” Reuters reported.Chen was active in the 1989 protest movement, organizing a pro-democracy group in Guiyang and later serving 13 years in prison after the government crushed the Tiananmen demonstrations. Chen Xi, who is also known as Chen Youcai, was arrested on Nov. 29, a week before the Guizhou Human Rights Forum, a group to which he belonged, was declared illegal, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an activist group.
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    Middle East | December 23, 2011

    Why the Damascus Bombing is Better News for Syria’s Regime Than for its Opposition

    The twin suicide bombings that killed at least 30 people in Damascus on Friday are good news for the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and bad news for the opposition protest movement. That’s because the regime’s narrative of the 10-month crisis has been that Syria is facing not a citizens’ movement for democracy, but a sectarian, extremist terror campaign — a claim it uses to explain its own heavily militarized response that has resulted in the deaths of more than 5,000 Syrians, according to the U.N. The timing of the blasts, moreover, couldn’t have been better for the Assad regime, coming just a day after it had admitted, under pressure, a delegation of Arab League observers tasked with monitoring a peace agreement under which the regime had agreed to withdraw troops from its restive cities. That, and the regime’s rush to pin the attacks on al-Qaeda within minutes of breaking the news, may explain the knee-jerk response of many opposition activists who branded the event “mysterious”, and implied that it may have been staged by the regime for propaganda ends.
 
 
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    Damascus bombings, perhaps, bolsters their dynasty dictator, Oops, Baby-Doc, Bashat-al-Assad. However, it may be a lesson to American penchant for democracy, "American Style," all over the creation, Oops, barring, American funded and goodly supported other dictatorships, around the Middle East (little )world and African (big, little) world.

    It has been a British tradition. However, freedom loving former colonists condemned British imperialism, at some time in the history of general Imperialism, British were just one party, Americans have used the same techniques, as of yesterday and many more yesterdays carrying foreign wars most cruelly and most efficiently as the fruits of...
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