Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- March 1, 2011



The Arab Revolution Swells -- Washington Post Editorial

THREE QUESTIONS have driven discussion of the ongoing Arab revolt and how the United States should respond to it. Can it spread to all of the Arab states, including seemingly stable kingdoms, such as Saudi Arabia, and the most repressive police states, such as Syria? Can it be stopped with violence by regimes more ruthless than those of Tunisia and Egypt? And can entrenched power structures succeed in limiting the amount of change, through bribes or negotiation?

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Yes, It Could Happen Here: Why Saudi Arabia is ripe for revolution. -- Madawi Al-Rasheed, Foreign Policy

Saudi Arabia's subtle protests are serious -- Brian Whitikar, The Guardian

Cautious Optimism Regarding the Arab Revolts, from an Unlikely Source -- Peter Wehner, Commentary

Beleaguered Yemeni leader has shown staying power
-- Jeffrey Fleishman and Haley Sweetland Edwards, Los Angeles Times

China’s Highly Unequal Economy
-- Victor Shih, The Diplomat

Never Fight a Land War in Asia
-- George Friedman, Real Clear World/Stratfor

Wrong choice in Kosovo -- Gregory Clark, Japan Times

Preparing for War in Australia? -- Randall Hoven, American Thinker

America Should Default -- Claude Sandroff, American Thinker

Mideast turmoil is good news for Alberta -- Gillian Steward, Toronto Star

Conservatives shouldn't be so surprised by freedom -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post
Why Qaddafi can no longer terrorize Libyans -- Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor
Are sanctions enough? -- Al Jazeera
ANALYSIS-Foreign intervention unlikely unless Libya worsens -- Reuters
Q+A: How U.S. financial sanctions on Libya might work -- Reuters
How Qaddafi Reshaped Africa -- Howard French, The Atlantic

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