Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- April 27, 2010

A metro station in Athens is closed Tuesday as public transport employees strike: Greece can no longer get by without foreign assistance. AFP

How Germany Made The Greek Crisis Worse -- Gustav A. Horn, Spiegel Online

The Greeks are mainly responsible for their current predicament. But the German government has made the country's situation worse with its lectures and reluctance to provide assistance. Chancellor Angela Merkel is mainly to blame for the fact that German taxpayers now have to suffer.

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." This piece of wisdom, known as Murphy's Law, currently applies extraordinarily well to economic policy in the euro zone.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

We've (Germany) Have Waited Too Long for Europe -- Tom Buhrow, New York Times

Afghan crunch time: Obama must decide whether to talk to the Taliban -- Ahmed Rashid, Washington Post

China's new strategy -- Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy

With a Clenched Fist: Iran rebukes Obama's nuclear overture. -- Maseh Zarif, Weekly Standard

Democracy a myth in Iran -- Japan Times editorial

Beating the Mideast’s Black Hole -- Roger Cohen, New York Times

Thailand on the Brink -- Lawrence Osborne, Daily Beast

The Persian Gulf Military Balance -- Robert Haddick, Small Wars Journal

Russia Gets Duped Again -- Alexander Golts, Moscow Times

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