Thursday, January 7, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- January 7, 2010



Trigger Mechanism (Iran) -- Christopher Hitchens, National Post

Some distance into Sunday’s New York Times report on the Obama administration’s increasingly worried internal discussions about Iran, there came a couple of paragraphs that repaid closer scrutiny:

“Mr. Obama’s top advisors say they no longer believe the key finding of a much disputed National Intelligence Estimate about Iran, published a year before President George W. Bush left office, which said that Iranian scientists ended all work on designing a nuclear warhead in late 2003. After reviewing new documents that have leaked out of Iran and debriefing defectors lured to the West, Mr. Obama’s advisors say they believe the work on weapons design is continuing on a smaller scale.” [Italics mine.]

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Iraq And Blackwater; The End of the Warrior Witch Hunt -- Jim Hanson, Washington Times

The Blackwater Lynching -- Washington Times editorial

Did Pakistani Spies Help the CIA Bomber? -- Gerald Posner, Daily Beast

Wahid and the Voice of Moderate Islam -- Paul Wolfowitz, Wall Street Journal

Cuba: Terror Sponsor -- Investors Business Daily

Forgotten Cuba -- Stephen Kinzer, The Guardian

2010: Our Year of Decision -- Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear Politics

Poverty Does Not Cause Terrorism -- Andrew Cline, American Spectator

Obama Sobers Up on Arab-Israeli Peace -- Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy

P.C. Undermines our Military -- James A. Lyons, Washington Times

The Realist Case for Tibetan Autonomy -- Paula J. Dobrianksy, Wall Street Journal opinion

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