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Apr142011
Libya-Syria-Yemen-Bahrain: Is It All About the US and Iran? (Tait)
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 6:24 | Scott Lucas in EA Iran, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
"The U.S. is applying a relatively old strategy of linking up with elites in the region to a new situation and I don't think they're really thinking through the consequences" argues Lucas, who says the approach is unsuited to an "asymmetrical battle" that is being waged. "The issue of political legitimacy is the one that people are pushing. It's not the U.S.-Iran contest, it's not even the question of economic factors and if you are seen in any way as basically not really being on board with that question of political legitimacy, if you are seen as in effect trying to impose this Iran question on top of it, I think it'll bite you on the backside."