Thursday, November 18, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- November 18, 2010



The Ghailani Debacle -- Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine

The acquittal of Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani yesterday on all but one of 285 counts in connection with the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has once again demonstrated that the leftist lawyers’ experiment in applying civilian trial rules to terrorists is gravely misguided and downright dangerous. The soon-to-be House chairman on homeland security, Peter King, issued a statement blasting the trial outcome and the nonchalant response from the Justice Department:

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Terror-trial travesty -- New York Post editorial

Obama in Europe: Back among friends or another 'shellacking' ahead?
-- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor

Is U.S.-Russian Nuclear Pact Dead This Year? -- Elaine M. Grossman, National Journal

Going to War Over a Treaty -- Fred Kaplan, Slate

NATO needs to modernize rusty nuclear policy -- Paul Meyer, Toronto Star

America's toughest terror test: Al Qaeda in Yemen -- Walter Rodgers, Christian Science Monitor

Gates on a Nuclear Iran -- Herschel Smith, Captain's Journal

Will President Obama bring back the draft?
-- Tony Perkins, The Daily Caller

More signs of the currency war -- Clyde Prestowitz, Foreign Policy

Currency wars and conventional wisdom -- Clyde Prestowitz, Foreign Policy

Ireland's economy: Threadbare -- The Economist

'Refudiation' of $600 Billion Printed Out of Thin Air -- Sarah Palin, Wall Street Journal

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