How They See Us
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How they see us: Hidden motives for backing Mursi
feature Egyptian liberals are furious at the U.S.—and this week they took it out on Hillary Clinton.
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Egyptians smell an American plot
feature The arrest of 19 Americans charged with working for unlicensed pro-democracy organizations has prompted the U.S. to threaten to withhold more than $1 billion in military aid.
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How they see us: Will Israel strike without U.S. support?
feature Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak Israel have issued repeated threats of a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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Green-lighting assassinations of civilians
feature Iranians react to the killing of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the nuclear scientist who died after a motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to his car.
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How they see us: Mexico reaps little from a state visit
feature One outcome of President Felipe Calderón's visit to the U.S. is that President Obama finally agreed to allow Mexican trucks into the U.S.
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How they see us: Rewarding Germany’s Merkel
feature Notwithstanding a lavish state dinner and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Obama and Chancellor Merkel are not the closest of friends.
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Failing to learn from the debt crisis
feature Will Americans finally realize that their era of hegemony is over? asked the Chinese Xinhua News Agency in an editorial.
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Russia is now NATO’s friend
feature Will the entire Euro-Atlantic region one day be seen as one shared space that both NATO and Russia are responsible for defending?
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Misreading China on North Korea
feature Why does the U.S. “still think it can change North Korea by relying on China’s influence?” asked Park Sung-soo in JoongAng Daily.
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Taking aim at Pakistan
feature The outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has accused Pakistan's intelligence service of fighting a proxy war in Afghanistan and directly contributing to attacks on U.S. targets.
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Vetoing Palestinian statehood
feature President Obama will veto President Mahmoud Abbas's quest to have the United Nations recognize Palestine as an independent state.
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Assassinating Awlaki
feature The Arab world's reaction to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Concocting an Iranian plot
feature In Iran, many people think the U.S. invented the far-fetched story about an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador.
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Talking to the Taliban
feature Has the death of Osama bin Laden and the rumored death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Oma given NATO some leverage?
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