Friday, November 19, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- November 19, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai takes a question during a press conference. Musadeq Sadeq

Karzai Must Tell Us Which Side He's On In Afghanistan -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph

Hamid Karzai's fits of pique play into the hands of the faint hearts within the Nato coalition in Afghanistan, writes Con Coughlin.

Hamid Karzai is more likely to find himself treated as an unwelcome gatecrasher than the guest of honour when he arrives in Lisbon today for the Nato summit.

At a time when the alliance has upwards of 100,000 troops daily risking their lives in defence of his government, the Afghan president's attendance was initially regarded as crucial to deciding how best to prosecute the war. But after his latest intemperate outburst, in which he publicly condemned Nato's decapitation policy against the Taliban, the mission's commanders are no longer so sure. To be blunt, they want to know whose side he's really on.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Inviting the bear back to A'stan -- Arthur Herman, New York Post

India Eyed for US Great Wall Plan? -- Robert Dreyfus, The Diplomat

The long road to south Sudan's secession vote -- L.A. Times editorial

Focus on Sudan's political referendum obscures trouble in Darfur
-- Morton Abramowitz, Washington Post

How Indonesia keeps Islamic extremists at bay
-- John Hughes, Cristian Science Monitor

FACT CHECK: Half-truths in nuke arms treaty debate -- AP

Why Air Security is the Issue -- C. Edmund Wright, American Thinker

Don't touch my junk
-- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

Inside China's housing bubble -- Andrew Leonard, Salon

The Cadillac of Bad Ideas -- David Harsanyi, Real Clear Politics

GM's Bailout Is a Financial Disaster
-- John Lott, Fox News

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