Friday, November 13, 2009

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- November 13, 2009


Tehran's Tricks For Squeezing The Saudis -- Amir Taheri

For almost a decade, Arab regimes have worried about alleged Iranian plans to create a "Shiite crescent" from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, encompassing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and a yet-to-be liberated Palestine. Now fresh fears have grown that the "crescent" may take another shape as well -- from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden, and including chunks of Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS

An Officer's Outrage Over Fort Hood -- Major Shawn Keller, Real Clear Politics

Medicalizing mass murder -- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

Should General George Casey Resign? -- Monte Kuligowski, American Thinker

Barack Obama's Asian Adventure -- The Economist

Before Sunrise: Will Obama seize a rare opportunity for change in U.S.-Japan relations? -- R. Taggart Murphy, The New Republic

Obama's Asian occasions -- Charles E. Morrison, Japan Times

Beijing, Global Free-Rider -- Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, Foreign Policy

An Agenda for Obama in China -- Michael Barbalas, Wall Street Journal

Obama's Afghanistan plan: the warlord factor -- Mark Moyar, CS Monitor

Obama's Afghanistan options -- Olivia Hampton, The Guardian

Obama's Real Afghanistan Decision -- Fred Kaplan, Slate

Afghan Enclave Offers Model to Rebuff Taliban -- S. Tavernise, NY Times

One Last Chance to Save Afghan Mission -- Nick Clegg, The Times

What Bush Inherited, and What He Left Left Behind -- Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

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