The Larger Game in the Middle East - Iran - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/weekinreview/03sanger.html?_r=1
That afternoon in the Situation Room vividly demonstrates a rarely stated fact about the administration’s responses to the uprisings sweeping the region: The Obama team holds no illusions about Colonel Qaddafi’s long-term importance. Libya is a sideshow. Containing Iran’s power remains their central goal in the Middle East. Every decision — from Libya to Yemen to Bahrain to Syria — is being examined under the prism of how it will affect what was, until mid-January, the dominating calculus in the Obama administration’s regional strategy: how to slow Iran’s nuclear progress, and speed the arrival of opportunities for a successful uprising there.
Article important, même en le lisant avec la méfiance qu’il faut appliquer à ce genre d’article dans le New York Times. #Libye