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Be Smart, Not Just Tough, in the Middle East
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A week has passed since U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in Libya, but the debate about how the U.S. should respond to the Middle East’s turmoil has barely progressed beyond name-calling. Something better is needed, because this problem isn’t going away.
Riots sparked by the made-in-the-USA, anti-Islam video that ostensibly helped to provoke his death have continued, underlining that U.S. positions in the region can become hostage at any time to some crackpot’s irreverent portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad.