Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- December 4, 2009

CAMARADERIE - U.S. soldiers join in to be a part of the circle, some to pray, before every mission in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Nov. 22, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to the 62nd Engineer Company, 4th Engineer Battalion. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. David Hauk

Take The War To Pakistan -- Seth G. Jones, New York Times

Kabul, Afghanistan

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S decision on a timetable for withdrawal of American troops only makes official what everyone here has known for a while: the clock is ticking in Afghanistan. The Taliban have long recognized this, and many captured militants have reminded their interrogators that “you have the watches, but we have the time.”

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

New Lease On A 'Long War' -- James Kitfield, National Journal
Obama's Fog of War -- Tina Brown, The Daily Beast
A Call To Arms So Ambivalent And Dispiriting -- Charles Krauthammer, Investor Business Daily
Our Timeline, and the Taliban’s -- Max Hastings, New York Times
Obama's Other War -- Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Afghanistan: the clock is ticking for Obama as the Taliban bides its time -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
Obama's surge speech offers two messages: one to placate the right, one to assuage the left -- Charles Krauthammer, New York Daily News
Can Afghan forces assume security responsibility as Obama expected? -- Wang Yan, China View
A Plan in Need of Clarity -- Jim Webb, Washington Post
Obama's Case to Make -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post
A New Momentum for Afghanistan -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Washington Post

Time to Take the Gloves Off in Pakistan -- Max Boot, Commentary Magazine

Beijing broods over its arc of anxiety -- Peter Lee, Asia Times

Needed for Mideast peace: a sense of urgency -- Martin Indyk, Los Angeles Times

EU Could Bring Peace to Mideast -- W. Nitze & L. Hadar, The Guardian

The Monster of Darfur -- Rebecca Hamilton, The New Republic

Somebody at Fort Hood Should Be Walking the Plank -- Andy McCarthy, National Review

Economic suicide -- New York post editorial