Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by McClatchy News Service, "Another Step Backward in Mideast."
In the Media | Detail
Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by McClatchy News Service, "Another Step Backward in Mideast."
Iranian-backed Hezbollah's seizure Friday of large swaths of Beirut from the U.S.-backed Lebanese government is the latest in a string of setbacks to U.S. allies in the Middle East and the latest bad news for President Bush on the eve of his trip next week to a region that he set out to remake five years ago. [. . .]
"In a test of strength against the government, Hezbollah came out swiftly on top," said Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It is a balance of power that is much less favorable to the allies of the United States."
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan and nonproprietary. CSIS does not take specific policy positions; accordingly, all views, positions, and conclusions expressed in these publications should be understood to be solely those of the authors.
