Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- April 20, 2010

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The Death Of The American Century -- Henry Allen, Washington Post

The dream is dying.

It was this: a belief that the world has a special love for Americans, for our earnest innocence and gawky immediacy, for our willingness to share the obvious truth and light of democracy with people still struggling in the darkness of history, for our random energy, syncopated music and lopsided, baseball-playing grins. Throw in a little purple mountains' majesty and amber waves of grain, and you get the idea.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Obama feels the heat on Iran's threat -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

Confused on Iran -- Washington Post editorial

Iran, Sanctions and the Memo -- New York Times editorial

Mullen's Myth of Geostrategic Equivalence: On Iran's nuclear program. -- William Kristol, Weekly Standard

Gates' Memo on Iran: Controversial but Correct -- Tony Karon, Time Magazine

Multiple Personality Disorder in Pyongyang -- Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy

Tension Mounts in Bangkok Standoff -- Simon Roughneen, Irrawaddy

South Africa's Zuma goes soft on Malema. Is he losing control of the ANC? -- Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor

Terrorist threat still looms near -- Peter Brookes, China Post

Russia's New Push for Power -- Judith Miller and Douglas Schoen, Daily Beast

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