Subject: Editors' Picks: An exclusive look at how the U.S. undermined Kurdish forces; and what Occupy Central can learn from Tahrir Square
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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 17:41:13 -0400 (EDT)

FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Tuesday, October 07

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#1 
THE KURDISTAN CABLES: Contributor Jake Hess uncovers previously classified State Department documents that show how the U.S. tried to engage and undermine the Kurdish fighters protecting Kobani. An FP exclusive: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzcPoQ7Qr9ht-A7ee2 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDQiKsPotYB1ir4YA9ab2>

#2
PHOTOS OF THE DAY: They fled their homes, but their husbands and sons stayed to fight the Islamic State. Andrew Quilty photographed Syrian women who fled from Kobani in a refugee camp just over the Turkish border in Suruç: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzcPoQ7Qr9huAA09f2 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzcPoQ7Qr9ht1A076c>

#3
SILENT, BUT DEADLY: Kim Jong Un is missing and Pyongyang is quiet, but a quiet North Korea is still a dangerous North Korea. Five reasons why: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzcPoQ7Qr9huCA1baa target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>: 
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzcPoQ7Qr9ht3A5919>

#4
&quot;FAILURE IS THE BEST TEACHER&quot;: A veteran of Egypt’s own uprisings offers his advice on what Hong Kong's Occupy Central protesters can learn from Cairo’s Tahrir Square: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzcPoQ7Qr9huEAb159 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzcPoQ7Qr9ht5Adbed>

#5
RUMBLE IN THE PENTAGON: Should senior military officers resign in protest if Obama disregards their advice? The latest from Shadow Government: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzsPoQ7Qr9huGAcbb2 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vth7.2i44/VDRXzcPoQ7Qr9ht7Af8c1>

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