Saturday, January 22, 2011

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- January 22, 2011



The Iranian Nuclear Threat: How To Put The Genie Back In The Bottle -- Praveen Swami, The Telegraph

Last summer, Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, explained the world’s biggest strategic dilemma in two pithy sentences: “Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be incredibly destabilising. Attacking them would also create the same kind of outcome.”

The inelegantly named P5+1 group – the United Kingdom, the United States, China, France, Russia and Germany – is meeting with Iran at the magnificent Ciragan Palace Hotel in Istanbul, hoping to avoid the bleak outcomes Admiral Mullen outlined. In the best-case scenario, Iran may surrender its enriched uranium stockpile, the basic building block of a bomb, for peaceful nuclear technology and fuel – though that is months, and perhaps years, away.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Iran's nuclear program. Not a fait accompli, after all -- David Horovitz, Jerusalem Post

China’s coming fall -- Lawrence Solomon, National Post

Why Does The U.S. Still Give China Aid? -- IBD Editorial

Channeling China -- Washington Post editorial

China Grows 10 Percent Again: Is This Believable?
-- Heritage Foundation

China Goes to Nixon
-- Paul Krugman, New York Times

America's Most Wanted -- Michael B. Mukasey, Wall Street Journal

Rising Prices Lurk in Europe's Immediate Future
-- Alexander Jung, Spiegel Online

Obama's claim of Boeing export deal highly exaggerated -- Thomas Lifson, American Thinker

The Global Threat to Press Freedom -- Lee Bollinger, Foreign Policy

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