Saturday, September 4, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- September 4, 2010



Mideast Peace: The Problem Obama Chose -- Tim Rutten, L.A. Times

The Mideast has been a problem hovering over every U.S. president since 1948.

Nearly 40 years ago, I spent time with the late Conor Cruise O'Brien, one of the 20th century's most formidable intellectual journalists.

Like many naturally contentious men possessed of restlessly great minds, he could be spectacularly wrong, but his firsthand experience of the world was vast, and he had a politician's gift for aphoristic profundity. He patiently explained to me, for example, that all the worst international controversies could be divided into "problems" and "situations." The former, he said, had "solutions"; the latter, "outcomes."

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Obama's Post-Iraq World -- Roger Cohen, New York Times

Iran’s Anti-Israel Protest Reveals Regime Fearful of Domestic Opposition
-- Josh Shahryar, Pajamas Media

Internationalism Run Amok -- Claudia Rosett, Forbes Magazine

Understanding Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers -- Niel A. Smith, NDU Press (Hat Tip: Small Wars Journal)

BOOK REVIEW - Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? -- Brian Michael Jenkins, NDU Press

What Lies Behind the Resurgent Violence in Kashmir? -- Meenakshi Ganguly, Foreign Affairs

China the Aggressor?
-- Michael J. Green, The National Interest

Australia's Gillard on the move for power
-- Paul Kelly, The Australian

Tomorrow's warriors -- Richard Gowan, European Council On Foreign Relations

The economics of war -- Doyle McManus, McClatchy News

How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular -- Michael Scherer, Time Magazine

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