Friday, September 9, 2011

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- September 9, 2011


The 9/11 ‘Overreaction’? Nonsense. -- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

The new conventional wisdom on 9/11: We have created a decade of fear. We overreacted to 9/11 — al-Qaeda turned out to be a paper tiger; there never was a second attack — thereby bankrupting the country, destroying our morale and sending us into national decline.

The secretary of defense says that al-Qaeda is on the verge of strategic defeat. True. But why? Al-Qaeda did not spontaneously combust. Yet, in a decade Osama bin Laden went from the emir of radical Islam, jihadi hero after whom babies were named all over the Muslim world — to pathetic old recluse, almost incommunicado, watching shades of himself on a cheap TV in a bare room.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

The Next Ten Years of Al-Qaeda -- Zalmay Khalilzad, The National Interest

Ten Years After 9/11 -- Jakob Augstein, Spiegel Online

It is Western Muslims who will beat al-Qaeda -- Ed Husain, The Telegraph

Two Questions at Heart of bin Laden's Jihad -- Lawrence Wright, Bloomberg

Libya: 'civil war not over' -- Richard Spencer, The Telegraph

Libya: So far, so pretty good -- The Economist

A Reality Check for Brazil -- Jaime Daremblum, Real Clear World

The euro: peering over the brink -- The Guardian editorial

The Euro's Problems Are America's Too -- Desmond Lachman, Wall Street Journal

3 comments:

Simon Stone said...

How is it possible t "protect civillians" by attacking small cities with the assistance of NATO War Planes? Everybody should read the Reuters Report on the Truth about the manner in which the whole WAR against Libya was fabricated. I have never been for Gadaffi, but there exists no excuse for the destruction of a nation that attacked nobody and enjoyed the best quality of life of all Arabian nations.

HK said...

9/11 is the biggest lie in history, it was an inside Job Wall to Wall by the Ziocons from day one...with loads of Patsies....

Liam Ryan said...

Thanks for the material. Krauthammer is always a good read.