Dim prospects for Obama's Plan B in gulf

Dim prospects for Obama's Plan B in gulf
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Nov 3, 2011 - Now that Iraq has shunned a post-withdrawal U.S. military presence, U.S. President Barack Obama's Plan B for a beefed-up American force elsewhere in the Persian Gulf underlined the extent to which Iran is coming out on top in the region. "There is no disguising Washington's anxiety about the future direction of events both in Iraq and in neighboring Syria," observed international affair ... more