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USGLC in the News

FLORIDA POLITICS

In Tampa, Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal Says ISIS Is a Symptom, Not
the Middle East Problem |

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Mitch Perry

"There's a temptation today to simplify things," the
retired Army general (Stanley McChrystal) told a crowd of several
hundred people who gathered to hear him speak at the Tampa Waterside
Marriott Monday afternoon. McChrystal was the featured guest at a
lunchtime event sponsored by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
- which has been going from city to city this year to talk about
why America's role in the world matters in this presidential
election and how rising global challenges can impact America's
economic and security interests.

THE TAMPA BAY TIMES

McChrystal: Look Beyond Military to Reach Peace in War-Torn Middle
East |

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Howard Altman

On the first full day of the battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul
from the so-called Islamic State, the former head of U.S. commando
strike operations told a Tampa audience that removing ISIS alone won't
bring peace. McChrystal was in Tampa on Monday afternoon to speak to
the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a bipartistan organization that
works to educate policymakers, business leaders and the public on the
importance of using America's civilian-led tools of development and
diplomacy to make the world safer.

THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER
Amid Global Crises, We Must Engage Abroad

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Jim Folsom Jr. served as governor of Alabama from 1993 to 1995. Jo
Bonner represented Alabama's 1st District in Congress from 2003
to 2013. Together they serve as the co-chairs of the Alabama Advisory
Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

From the rise of ISIS to the spread of the Zika virus, with every
passing day we see new headlines of growing conflicts and humanitarian
crises abroad. While Republicans and Democrats appear to rarely agree
on anything these days, we are a part of a broad bipartisan coalition
that wholly agrees: America cannot turn inward. We must confront the
global challenges we face, and this means we have to strengthen our
investment in American development and diplomacy abroad.

THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE
US Leadership in Global Education: The Time Is Now |

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Rebecca Winthrop

As the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition says, "Education is one
of America's most important global investments, not just because
it's the right thing to do-it's also the
smartest." Yet today, hundreds of millions of children and youth
across the developing world are denied the opportunities to develop
and learn to their full potential. Most are girls from communities
where poverty is crushing and has been entrenched for generations. Our
collective future rests on how we develop and treat our children.
Indeed, investing in global education is an investment in our shared
global prosperity.

Campaign 2016

NEWSWEEK

Donald Trump Vs Hillary Clinton: Final Debate Foreign Policy
Fact-Check |

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Jack Moore and Josh Lowe

At the third and final presidential debate Wednesday, claims from both
candidates on issues outside of U.S. borders were once again flying
around as they sought to land their verbal blows at their last
face-to-face meeting before the vote on November 8. Below we look at
the credibility of six key claims the candidates made about the world
and U.S. foreign policy: 1. Putin 2. Open Borders 3. Refugees 4. Mosul
5. Iran 6. Russia in the Middle East

THE WASHINGTON POST
Neither Trump nor Clinton Has Talked Specifics on Foreign Policy |

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Karen DeYoung

Despite broad, repeated references to dangerous fingers on nuclear
buttons, the terrorist threat and international respect, neither of
the presidential nominees has said much about the specifics of their
foreign policy plans. That is particularly true for the Middle East,
where war is raging across Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Most of what they
have said is re-litigating ancient history. Hillary Clinton says her
Senate vote in favor of the 2003 Iraq invasion was a mistake; Donald
Trump says it's evidence of her bad judgment. Trump says he
opposed the invasion; Clinton and virtually everyone else points to
documented evidence that he supported it.

THE NATIONAL INTEREST
The Election That Killed Foreign Policy |

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Paul R. Pillar

The current election campaign has done more to set back U.S. foreign
relations, and the cause of good foreign policy, than has any other
American presidential election within memory. One reason is the
overall sordid image of American democracy in action that is being
projected to people around the world, and to governments with an
interest in exploiting that image. The damage to U.S. foreign
relations, foreign policy, and public understanding of foreign policy
that has already been done in this campaign will persist past the
campaign's end. Still more damage probably is yet to come.

Development & Diplomacy

DEVEX
Aid Groups Brace for Mosul Humanitarian Crisis |

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Elizabeth Dickinson

Humanitarians in northern Iraq are scrambling to prepare for what they
expect could be the worst crisis in the country in years, as up to 1
million civilians flee fighting around the second city of Mosul. But
uncertainties about the situation abound, complicating preparations
and limiting aid groups' abilities to plan for all but the most
immediate basic needs of those impacted by the fighting. Aid
organizations have been planning and prepositioning supplies since
February in preparation for a military operation, begun this week, to
retake Mosul from the Islamic State group. The U.N. expects as many as
200,000 people will be displaced in just the first three weeks of the
operation.

TIME
Beijing's Adroit Diplomacy Is Isolating the U.S. in Asia |

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Hannah Beech

As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battled it out in the final U.S.
presidential debate, China was busy rolling out the red carpet for an
unlikely guest: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who was on a
four-day tour of the world's second largest economy. At a
business forum in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on
Thursday, Duterte, who took office in June, announced his
nation's "separation" from the U.S. "Both in
military, not maybe social, but economics also," he said,
"America has lost." But the Philippine President's
turn away from the U.S. toward China is not unique in Asia, and it is
troubling news for a superpower that made a "pivot" to
Asia a cornerstone of foreign policy. "We are going to be
seeking an explanation of exactly what the president meant when he
talked about separation from the U.S.," said U.S. State
Department spokesman John Kirby on Thursday.

NBC NEWS
UN Announces Agreement on 72-Hour Yemen Cease-Fire

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The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire which
is to take effect shortly before midnight Wednesday, the U.N. special
envoy to Yemen announced Monday. A U.N. statement said Special Envoy
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed "welcomes the restoration of the Cessation of
Hostilities, which will spare the Yemeni people further bloodshed and
will allow for the expanded delivery of humanitarian assistance." The
cease-fire agreement was announced a day after Ahmed met in London
with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary
Boris Johnson as a flurry of diplomacy focused on the impoverished
war-torn country.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

New Syria Talks End Quickly, Giving Little Hope to a Beleaguered
Aleppo |

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Nick Cumming-Bruce

Talks among the United States, Russia and critical Middle East states
aimed at brokering a new pause in Syria's war broke up after a
few hours on Saturday without signs of progress, or a break in the
Syrian government's ferocious assault on rebel-held parts of the
city of Aleppo. Secretary of State John Kerry began the talks in the
Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne, meeting one on one with his Russian
counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov. Their 40-minute encounter, described as
"businesslike" by a State Department spokesman, John
Kirby, came 12 days after Washington suspended bilateral contacts with
Moscow and called for a war crimes investigation into Russian actions
in Syria.

Politics & Foreign Policy

THE WASHINGTON POST

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the U.S. Foreign Assistance
Budget |

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Max Bearak and Lazaro Gamio

Last month, the Obama administration announced an eye-popping $38
billion security assistance deal with the Israelis, to be disbursed
over ten years starting in 2019. That caught us off-guard. It seemed
like a ton of money. But as we looked into the deal, and others like
it, we began to realize how little we knew about the U.S.
government's assistance budget, which ranges from programs
combating HIV/AIDS to those directly funding other nations'
armed forces.

ABC NEWS
Russia, Syria Halt Aleppo Airstrikes Before 8-Hour Lull |

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Vladimir Isachenkov And Bassem Mroue

According to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the halt in the strikes
should help pave way for militants to leave the eastern rebel-held
parts of the contested city. Both Russian and Syrian air raids on the
northern city of Aleppo were suspended at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Shoigu
said. He described the suspension as a precursor for the opening of
humanitarian corridors. Moscow on Monday announced a "humanitarian
pause" between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday to allow civilians and
militants safe passage out of the city.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Battle for Mosul Tests Obama Strategy to Shift Fight's Burden
From U.S. |

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Mark Landler and Eric Schmitt

As Iraqi forces launch their long-awaited campaign to retake the city
of Mosul from the Islamic State, President Obama's doctrine of
aiding other countries militarily rather than leading every fight is
facing its greatest test yet. How well the Mosul campaign goes, not
just the fighting over the coming days and weeks but the rebuilding of
the city in the months after that, will help define Mr. Obama's
legacy as a wartime leader who sought to take the United States off
the front lines of the counterterrorism war.

BUSINESS INSIDER

Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Free Trade, but Opposition to TPP
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Allan Smith

A Wednesday poll from the Consumer Technology Association showed that
most registered American voters are in opposition to the Trans-Pacific
Partnership, the landmark trade agreement being roasted along the
campaign trail, while having an overwhelmingly positive view about the
benefits of free trade. While 42% of respondents to the poll support
the TPP, President Barack Obama's keystone of the "pivot to Asia" in
American foreign policy that involves 11 other Pacific Rim nations,
56% believe free trade agreements lead to job creation in the US.


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