A FLASHPOINT ON TURKEY'S BORDER
EDITORIAL
NEW YORK TIMES
Turkey showed prudent restraint after one of its fighter jets was shot down by Syria on Friday. But the incident is a reminder of how easily Syria’s bloody civil war could spill over their common border, and it lends greater urgency to United Nations and Western efforts to end that conflict. ...We’re not sure what kind of cynical game Russia is playing. It is abetting Mr. Assad’s killing spree by supplying him with helicopters. It is also pushing to include Iran — Mr. Assad’s other enabler — in an international meeting on Saturday to salvage the peace plan put forward by Kofi Annan... The Russians need to make sure that the meeting is not another wasted effort and show that they are willing to use their leverage with Mr. Assad to help engineer a solution and prevent an even bloodier and wider conflict.
THE FEAR FACTOR
BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
NEW YORK TIMES
You would have to be very naïve to think that transitioning from primordial identities to “citizens” would be easy, or even likely. ... But you would also have to be blind and deaf to the deeply authentic voices and aspirations that triggered these Arab awakenings not to realize that, in all these countries, there is a longing — particularly among young Arabs — for real citizenship and accountable and participatory government. It is what many analysts are missing today. That energy is still there, and the Muslim Brotherhood, or whoever rules Egypt, will have to respond to it. ... If Egyptians can forge a workable social contract to govern themselves, it will set an example for the whole region.
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