From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Subject: October 27 update Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 06:27:38 +0000 27 October, 2013 Article 1. NYT Rice Offers a More Modest Strategy for Mideast Mark Landler Article 2. Foreign Policy Assad's War of Starvation John F. Kerry Article 3. Al-Monitor Rift Between Cairo And Washington Deepens Joshua Haber Article 4. The Washington Post Can the military learn from its mistakes? Thomas E. Ricks Article 5. The New York Review of Books Gambling with Civilization Paul Krugman NYT Rice Offers a More Modest Strategy for Mideast Mark Landler 26 October 2013 -- Each Saturday morning in July and August, Susan E. Rice, President Obama's new national security adviser, gathered half a dozen aides in her corner office in the White House to plot America's future in the Middle East. The policy review, a kind of midcourse correction, has set the United States on a new heading in the world's most turbulent region. EFTA00694508