MOSCOW A worldwide media frenzy has turned the plight of the rogue American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden into something resembling a John le Carré novel, full of suspense and intrigue. Whose spy is he?

By pursuing this route after he takes office, Obama will force Iran to make a choice does it want to be a state that is fully integrated into the global economy, or does it want to be an ideology with rogue status?

This, in turn, underlines another fundamental reality that the fight against international terrorism cannot be won without demilitarizing and de radicalizing Pakistan, including by rebalancing civil military relations there and reining in the country s rogue Inter Services Intelligence agency.