A handicap for presidential candidate John McCain? Not necessarily!
What we have now is an absence of global leadership, not the collapse of the West.
A fierce battle is now under way between Egypt and America, which at its core is a battle for the liberation of Egypt from dependency on America.
This test of relations between the two countries is the first since the regime change in Egypt, but coercion and threats of cutting aid are not new.
It seems that the United States has left the Kurds to meet their fate, as is always the case.
The greatest nations have the power of influence, but their giant size deprives them of necessary flexibility.
Al-Hosseini: ' ... This is part of the soft war which is led by the intelligence community and in which the intelligence community distributes the roles.'