A US Army soldier looks at the photographs of those killed. Photo AFPTaking Islam Seriously -- Colby Cosh, National Post
It is hard to put one’s finger on what was so irksome about U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Casey’s appearance on ABC’s Sunday political talk show, This Week with George Stephanopoulos. General Casey was present to make reassuring noises in the aftermath of a mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, the largest military installation on U.S. soil. The general discouraged premature speculation that would presuppose a particular outcome of the investigation into the motives of the killer, Major Nidal Hasan, and expressed support for the thousands of American Muslims in uniform. It is hard to object to either of these things — hard, indeed, to find anything specific to object to at all in his comments.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Let's analyze Fort Hood, not sanitize it -- Irshad Manji, Globe and Mail
The Berlin wall and violent Islamic jihad -- Christian Science Monitor editorial
Leave Afghanistan to the Drones -- Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Obama, West, reread Fukuyama to the end, and look East -- Kishore Mahubani, CS Monitor
Japanese Missile Defense Matters -- Brian Kennedy, Wall Street Journal
'Strategic reassurance' that isn't -- Robert Kagan & Dan Blumenthal, Washington Post
Obama's Iran Diplomacy Isn't Working -- Con Coughlin, Wall Street Journal
India probes Maoists' foreign links -- Siddharth Srivastava, Asia Times
Iraq still needs close attention from the United States -- Max Boot, Weekly Standard
The Cold War's Greatest Generation -- Matthew Kaminski, Forbes
Who Controls Russia? -- Paul Saunders & Dimitri Simes, NY Times
'Oil and Gas Is Our Drug' -- Dmitry Medvedev, Der Spiegel
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