Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- January 6, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama gestures to the crowd to be quiet as he walks onto the 18th green at Mid-Pacific Country Club in Kailua, Hawaii. REUTERS

Out-To-Lunch O Living Out A Disaster Film -- Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Someday, somebody not from Hollywood will make a movie about President Obama's disastrous vacation. About how his aides waited for nearly three hours after the Christmas airliner attack to wake him. About how he waited three more days to appear publicly. About how even then, he didn't grasp the seriousness of the situation, racing through a bloodless speech so he could play golf.

Until that film is made, reality is frightening enough. Even the true believers in the White House now realize they blew the response to a potentially catastrophic attack by an al Qaeda-trained terrorist.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Airline attack shows Obama's listless approach to terrorism -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post

One 'Allegedly' Too Many: In her raw and disastrous way, Janet Napolitano is revealing. -- Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal

The Ramzi Yousef Standard: The Administration has ways of making terrorists not talk. -- Wall Street journal opinion

Two Attacks Highlight Counterterrorism's Bureaucratic Bog -- David Ignatius, Washington Post

How 12/25 Was Like 9/11
-- Thomas H. Kean and John Farmer Jr., New York Times

No One Central Front in the War Against Al Qaeda -- Brian Katulis, Real Clear World/American Progress

Iran's al Qaeda connection in Yemen -- Washington Times Editorial

Yemen's coming disaster -- Richard Fontaine & Andrew Exum, LA Times

Another Iranian Revolution? Not Likely -- Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett, New York Times

An Opposition Manifesto in Iran
-- Robin Wright, Los Angeles Times

Serbia: In From the Cold -- New York Times editorial

A Case for Presidential Power on Terrorism Detainees -- Ruth Marcus, Washington Post

Judge Made the Right Call in Blackwater Case -- Washington Post editorial

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