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In Newsweek, Leslie H. Gelb weaves surprising lessons on when to make war and peace from interviews with Ryan Crocker, former Ambassador to...
Speaker: Ned Parker, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
March 26, 2012
This week's Arab League Summit in Baghdad presents three important issues, says CFR's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow Ned Parker:
Parker says Sunni-Shia divisions and regional politics make it unlikely that this week's summit will result in any firm action to resolve the continuing conflict in Syria. He adds that these regional divisions, especially between Gulf states that are mostly Sunni, and states with Shiite populations like Iraq and Lebanon, also prevent the League from becoming a more forward-looking organization. Parker concludes that if Iraq can hold a successful summit, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki "will be toasted by his people and it will be a boon for him in his own nasty political wars at home."
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