Monday, July 27, 2009

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 27, 2009


The Shrinking President by Jed Babbin

Just as small men can be great, the important can be small. Barack Obama, who strode the political world last year as a new Colossus, is shrinking before our eyes. His proclamation that the Cambridge, Mass., police “acted stupidly” in arresting his personal friend, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was one of those “teachable moments” the president is so fond of creating.

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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, END EDITORIALS

Maliki's Nationalism -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post opinion

The War We’d Like to Forget -- Ross Douthat, New York Times opinion.

Wisely Doing Nothing (On Iran) -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post opinion

Iran's Revolution Has a Vacancy at the Top -- Azadeh Moaveni, Washington Post opinion.

The Dust of Dissent Can Still Choke this (Iranian) Regime - Rosemary Righter, The Times opinion

Interrogations and Prosecution -- Washington Post editorial

Set a Date to Close Gitmo -- Los Angeles Times editorial

Gitmo Injustice -- Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard opinion

Foreign Policy: Do Obama's Globe-trotters Play? -- Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times opinion

A New Dialogue with China -- Hillary Clinton & Timothy Geithner, WSJ

The Newest Israel-Iran Missile Battle
- Gerald Posner, The Daily Beast

Don't Trust Pakistan When it Comes to Taliban -- Sushant Sareen, Rediff

Which China is Coming to Washington? -- Nina Hachigian, New Republic

Can Cyber Diplomacy Save the World? -- Nancy Scola, American Prospect

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