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An F for Bush’s  Iran Policy, By David Ignatius, Sunday, November 30, 2008; Page B07
Absent some last-minute fireworks, President Bush will leave office with a kind of double failure on Iran: Administration hard-liners haven’t checked Tehran’s drive to acquire nuclear-weapons technology, and moderates haven’t engaged Iran in negotiation and dialogue.
It’s easy to criticize the Bush [...]

Many Experts Say Health-Care System Inefficient, Wasteful, By Ceci Connolly, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, November 30, 2008; Page A01
Yet among physicians, insurers, academics and corporate executives from across the ideological spectrum, there is remarkably broad consensus on what ought to be done.
A high-performance 21st-century health system, they say, must revolve around the central goal [...]

5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System, By Shannon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel, Washington Post, Sunday, November 23, 2008; Page B03
1. America has the best health care in the world.
2. Somebody else is paying for your health insurance
3. We would save a lot if we could cut the administrative waste of private insurance.
4. Health-care [...]

Exiled Tibetans gather in India to discuss new way, By Tim Sullivan, Associated Press, Nov 12, 2008
For 20 years, the exile movement has been guided by the Dalai Lama’s “middle way,” which rejects demands for outright independence but calls for limited autonomy for Tibet. Until very recently, the Dalai Lama had insisted on conciliation, repeatedly [...]

POST: Revealing charts on losses in the financial crisis, Thomas P.M. Barnett on November 28, 2008.
Post provides a synopsis and links to four articles in Economist magazine.
FINANCE AND ECONOMICS: “Global finance: Lifelines; A special section on the crisis looks at prospects for the global economy, individual countries and markets. It begins with the tricky job [...]

Deter Iran,  (Washington Times)…Louis Rene Beres, Thomas McInerney and Paul E. Vallely
…In the final analysis, President-elect Barack Obama must quickly fashion a broad, coherent and updated strategic doctrine from which effective and credible policy options can be suitably drawn and implemented. Among other refinements, it will be necessary to fully modernize our nuclear arsenal, and [...]

Obama’s Bush Doctrine, (Washington Post)…E. J. Dionne Jr.
In electing Barack Obama, the country traded the foreign policy of the second President Bush for the foreign policy of the first President Bush.
What’s most striking about Obama’s approach to foreign policy is that he is less an idealist than a realist who would advance American interests by [...]

Obama Chooses An Unlikely Team Of Hawks, (Time)…Peter Beinart
…Obama knows that while it’s a tough world out there, it’s tough here as well. In Gates, Jones and Clinton, he’s found people who can do more than sell his foreign policy to Iranians, Iraqis and Israelis; they can sell it to Americans too.

General Would Bring Polish To Security Post, (Arizona Republic (Phoenix))…Robert Burns and Richard Lardner, Associated Press
The national-security adviser doesn’t require Senate confirmation, nor does the job come with the muscle of a large federal agency. But in that role, James L. Jones may well be the last voice the new president hears before making crucial [...]

India’s Suspicion Of Pakistan Clouds U.S. Strategy In Region(New York Times)…Jane Perlez, The terrorist attacks in Mumbai occurred as India and Pakistan, two big, hostile and nuclear-armed nations, were delicately moving toward improved relations with the encouragement of the United States and in particular the incoming Obama administration.
Indian Commandos Battle Assailants, (Washington Post)…Emily [...]