Monday, September 7, 2009

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- September 7, 2009

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Don't Forget Why We're in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Christopher Hitchens, Slate

We're in a long war against Islamic terrorism.

Right though I so very often am, it always makes me feel distinctly queasy to find myself in the majority. A few weeks ago, I reported Rory Stewart's increasing misgivings about the course being followed by NATO and the United States in Afghanistan. (Stewart has seemed to me both the shrewdest supporter as well as the smartest critic of the counter-Taliban effort—don't miss what I quoted him as saying on both sides of the case.)

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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS

Should Obama go 'all in' on Afghanistan? -- Andrew J. Bacevich, L.A. Times Opinion

Can victory for President Karzai be taken as legitimate? -- Bronwen Maddox, Times Online opinion

To Fight A Necessary War -- Gautam Adhikari, Times Of India

Obama's Quagmire -- Jeffrey T. Kuhner, Washington Times opinion

Maliki's Failure to Compromise Hinders Iraqi Democracy
-- Joel Brinkley, Global Post

Obama's Summit Flop -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post opinion

Terrorist for Sale? -- Andrew Neil, The Daily Beast

What Next from Britain's Craven Government? -- Daily Telegraph editorial

On Human Rights, It's the Same Old China -- Washington Post editorial

No Freedom for Mr. Khan -- New York Times editorial

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