Friday, November 26, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- November 26, 2010

Barack Obama at meeting in White House Situation Room. Photo from Wikimedia

Korea War Games: Barack Obama To The White House Situation Room, Please… -- Peter Foster, The Telegraph

A nail-biting weekend lies ahead on the Korean peninsular where the USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is due to arrive on Sunday for war games with the South Korean armed forces. It is a “given”, with North Korean sabre-rattling, that the violence can never go beyond a certain point. Pyongyang knows it is no match for the Allies and, conversely, Seoul knows that even a small war could see its capital, Seoul, sustaining disproportionate losses.

Everyone, therefore, stays safely “within bounds”.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Duped in North Korea: From Obama's Mentor to Jimmy Carter
-- Paul Kengor, American Thinker

Want to Know What North Koreans Think About Kim Jong Un? Just ask. -- Angela Hawken and Matt Leighty, Foreign Policy

Only China can tame North Korea -- Derek Burney, Globe And Mail

Korean tension: A look at the conflict -- CNN

Terrorists & losers -- Ann Marlowe, New York Post

Inside Talibanistan: From the Haqqani network to the Afghan Taliban, a look at a splintered enemy. -- Peter Bergen, Brian Fishman and Katherine Tiedmann, Foreign Policy

Key to Talks Is to Show Iran the Cost of Nuclear Ambition -- Gerald F. Seib, Wall Street Journal

Mexico, call in the Marines -- Edward Schumacher-Matos, Washington Post

Amid violent flareup in Rio, Brazil defends its security strategy
-- Taylor Barnes, Christian Science Monitor

The Realist Prism: Rising Security Tab Strains U.S. Commitments -- Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review

New START, Old Whine -- IDB Editorial

The irrelevance of START -- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

After Ireland: Who Will Be Next to Need a Bailout? -- Leo Cendrowicz, Time Magazine

Eating the Irish -- Paul Krugman, New York Times

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