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September/October 2010, 5, 89
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Beyond Moderates and Militantspremium content icon
Robert Malley and Peter Harling

U.S. policymakers have historically applied yesterday's solutions to today's problems in the Middle East. But the Middle East is not what it was five years ago; it has moved on. President Obama must recognize that there is not a clean divide between a moderate pro-American camp and an extremist militant axis and take into account the region's rapidly shifting dynamics.

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