Friday, July 1, 2011

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



Greece's Agony. What Have We Become? -- The Economist

Some Greeks are angry about their paralysed, corrupt country. Others just want the good times to come back.

THEY had been warned. As Greece’s 300 legislators debated, and finally approved, an internationally backed financial-rescue plan with many clear downsides—it will pile pain onto hapless firms and citizens who already pay taxes, for instance, and so subsidise those who do not—some dire pronouncements on the possible consequences of saying “no” to the world were ringing in their ears.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

What’s keeping Mahmoud Ahmadinejad up at night?
-- Robert Zeliger, Passport/Foreign Policy

The Libya Campaign
-- New York Times editorial

What’s on the Libyan rebels’ shopping list? -- Robert Zeliger, Passport/Foreign Policy

Why Hezbollah Had a Really Bad Week -- David Schenker, The New Republic

How to get Pakistan to break with Islamic militants -- Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington Post

Israel's Gaza sea blockade is an act of self-defense -- L.A. Times editorial

How Secretary Gates prevented a war with Iran -- Ido Oren, TBO.com

You call Greece a crisis? Try the U.S., says China -- Edmund Downie, Foreign Policy

Could Obama ignore Congress if they refuse to raise the debt ceiling? Yes, and he should, some experts say -- Chris Moody, Yahoo News/The Ticket

Hugo Chavez’s secret -- Yoani Sanchez, Washington Post

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