Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 2, 2010

KUNAR MEETING - Paul Negley, left, the Kunar province U.S. Agency for International Development representative, and U.S. Army members of the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team meet with residents affected by the flooding near the Pashad Bridge in Kunar province, Afghanistan, July 31, 2010. Team members visited four bridges during a damage assessment after flooding had occurred in the area. U.S. Air Fprce photo by Staff Sgt. Nathan Lipscomb

Kiss This War Goodbye -- Frank Rich, New York Times

IT was on a Sunday morning, June 13, 1971, that The Times published its first installment of the Pentagon Papers. Few readers may have been more excited than a circle of aspiring undergraduate journalists who’d worked at The Harvard Crimson. Though the identity of The Times’s source wouldn’t eke out for several days, we knew the whistle-blower had to be Daniel Ellsberg, an intense research fellow at M.I.T. and former Robert McNamara acolyte who’d become an antiwar activist around Boston. We recognized the papers’ contents, as reported in The Times, because we’d heard the war stories from the loquacious Ellsberg himself.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Afghanistan is an unwinnable war, and our leaders know it -- Stephen Vizinczey, The Telegraph

No Victory Laps in Iraq — Yet -- Max Boot, Commentary Magazine

US watches from sidelines as Iraqi leadership unravels -- Mohamad Bazzi, The National

Price for a potential Israeli strike on Iran? A Palestinian state. -- Andy Zelleke, Robert Dujarric, Christian Science Monitor

If Iran came close to getting a nuclear weapon, would Obama use force? -- Steven Simon and Ray Takeyh, Washington Post

In Pakistan, Echoes of American Betrayal -- Mohammed Hanif, New York Times

How China Can Shut US Up -- Minxin Pei, The Diplomat

Ratify the START Treaty -- New York Times editorial

Learning From WikiLeaks -- Mitchell LaFortune, New York Times

Time to take Hugo Chavez seriously -- José R. Cárdenas, Shadow Government/Foreign Policy

What needs to change to defend America -- Stephen J. Hadley and William J. Perry, Washington Post

Arlington’s Broken Trust -- New York Times editorial

The UAE No Fan of the Blackberry — or Intellectual Freedom -- Max Boot, Commentary Magazine

The Soak-the-Rich Catch-22 -- Arthur Laffer, Wall Street Journal