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President Obama recently said, "Iran's leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." Some say containment represents a viable option against Iran, but others argue that Cold War strategies do not apply to Iran.

President Obama backs diplomacy; the Israeli leader says his country must remain master of its fate.

When they meet Monday, President Obama is expected to urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to delay any possible military action against Iran. Obama is likely to argue that the latest economic sanctions against Iran are having an impact.

After U.S. military officers in Afghanistan accidentally burned Qurans while disposing of other Islamic texts, two American military officers were killed and protests broke out throughout the country. The violent responses have raised concerns about the U.S. strategy.

Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation argues that the hysteria and breast-beating surrounding Iran's nuclear threat is just that: baseless hysteria and breast-beating.

The visit of Chinese Vice President and heir apparent Xi Jingping to the United States, raised questions about internal Chinese politics — from human rights to technological development — and how the country will be governed in the future.

South Korea conducts live-fire military drills Monday near its disputed sea boundary with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's threat to respond with a "merciless" attack. The exercise took place in the same area of the Yellow Sea that was the targeted by a North Korean artillery attack in 2010.

The Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo may be imprisoned, but his voice will not be silenced. His recent writings and poems have been collected in No Enemies, No Hatred.

While conventional wisdom in Washington is that Obama's diplomacy with Iran failed, Trita Parsi of The Nation, argues the reverse. To her, a lack of political will prompted Obama to adopt a misguided policy, and caused Tehran to fear compromise more than escalation.

Some analysts fear an impending conflict between Israel, the U.S. and Iran. Tod Lindberg of The Weekly Standard argues that the United States is a on a collision course with Iran; failure to act would amount to a failure in U.S. foreign policy.