Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 2, 2011

How Cairo, U.S. Were Blindsided By Revolution -- Charles Levinson, Margaret Coker and Jay Solomon, Wall Street Journal

Two months before Egypt exploded in popular rage, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt's foreign minister, in her seventh-floor offices in Washington.

U.S. officials were miffed that Cairo was ignoring their pleas to make coming legislative elections more credible by allowing international ballot monitors.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Arab Awakening or Dawn of a Dark Age? -- Greg Sheridan, Real Clear World/The Australian

Barack Obama, the cold-eyed assassin of Middle Eastern despots -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph

Is Al Jazeera trying to bring down the Palestinian Authority? -- Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz

Jordan's king doesn't want to play dominoes -- David Kenner, Foreign Policy

Jordan's appointment of a new prime minister will not be enough to silence the protests -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph

How to Get Southeast Asia Right -- Daniel Kliman & Abe Denmark, The Diplomat

‘Cuba starting to dare’ -- Carolina Barros, Buenos Aires Herald

Tired old Britain has put its feet up and withdrawn from the world -- Simon Heffer, The Telegraph

Goodbye to “Globalization” -- Harold James and Matteo Albanese, Project Syndicate

Commentaries, Opinions, Editorials, And Analysis On The Unrest In Egypt

Exclusive: The bloodbath in Tahrir Square -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy
Media- and NGO-Fueled Ignorance on Egypt and Tunisia -- Evelyn Gordon, Commentary Magazine
In Egypt, We Cannot Afford to Repeat Past Mistakes -- Max Boot, Commentary Magazine
Egypt protests: Should the world fear Egypt’s Islamic Brotherhood? -- Praveen Swami, The Telegraph
America's 'Islamist dilemma' -- Shadi Hamid, L.A. Times
Beyond Mubarak -- New York Times editorial
Why Obama's position on Egypt's Mubarak was too little, too late -- Rachel Newcomb, Christian Science Monitor
The Arab revolution grows up -- Washington Post
How to achieve real reform in the Arab world -- Marwan Muasher, Washington Post
ANALYSIS - Time up for Egypt's Mubarak, but what next? -- Reuters
Military Will Determine Fate of Mubarak's Exit Plan -- Tony Karon, Time Magazine
Mubarak's Departure Raises Tough Questions for U.S., Israel -- Yochi J. Dreazen, National Journal
Egypt: What happens next? -- Jaime Watt, CBC News