Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- May 3, 2011



Osama Bin Laden, Weak Horse -- Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal

Expelled from Afghanistan, rejected in Iraq, he died as a new Arab order that has nothing to do with jihad is struggling to be born.

The trail had grown cold, but the case for justice had never gone away. Osama bin Laden had warred against the United States, he had called on every Muslim "by God's will to kill the Americans and plunder their possessions wherever he finds them and whenever he can." He had erased the boundary in the laws of war between combatants and civilians, and he had set out the case that the age-old ailments of a deeply troubled Islamic civilization could be laid at America's doorstep.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

US Foreign Policy After Bin Laden
-- Patrick Seale, The Diplomat

Should bin Laden have been captured and tried? -- Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters

Abbottabad: Bin Laden’s Final Home. Osama couldn't have picked a more unlikely place to hide out. -- Cameron Abadi, Foreign Policy

What did Pakistan know and when did it know it? -- Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post

The Lies They Tell Us. Can the Pakistani government's web of deceit survive the death of Osama bin Laden? -- Mosharraf Zaidi, Foreign Policy

China rising, U.S. slipping? -- Tom Engelhardt, CBS News

Medvedev's New U.S. Role Model -- Mark Feygin, Moscow Times

Welcome to the New Canada -- Tasha Kheiriddin, National Post

Welcome to Canada’s two-party system -- Adam Radwanski, Globe And Mail

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