Subject: Editors' Picks: The Kurds' two-front war; and the end of American leadership
From: "Foreign Policy" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:36:24 -0400 (EDT)

FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Tuesday, October 14

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#1 
STABBED IN THE BACK: As Kurds head to the front lines to fight the Islamic State, they face a Turkish government attacking them from the rear. FP's Lauren Bohn reports from Turkey: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylVA14a4 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylQA59c2 >

#2
PEAK PRESIDENT: Is the world stuck in a hero-less era? FP’s Aaron David Miller writes on why the time of great American leadership is over: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylWAd815 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylRAf2a9>

#3
NO GOOD GUYS: Islamic State fighters have been slaughtering Shiites in Iraq and Syria. But a new report finds that Shiite militias are retaliating against the militants with atrocities of their own: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylXAe6f3 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylSAcc68>

#4
SHIFTING PRIORITIES: The Department of Defense’s top WMD expert is now joining the State Department in order to fight Ebola, calling it the “biggest biological event” of his lifetime: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylYA2326 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylTA33e7>

#5
CHART OF THE DAY: A perfect storm of a rapidly aging global population and worsening climate change is causing development planners to shift their strategies towards protecting the elderly: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylZA77c4 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wh1l.2hn8/VD2XT8PoA8RWKylUA4687>

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