Monday, January 23, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- January 23, 2012



Syria Looks More Like Libya Every Day -- Rami Khouri, The Guardian

Libya saw a phased process of opposition organisation before international intervention. Syria seems to be following its lead


The continuing deterioration of the political situation inside Syria last week led the emir of Qatar to suggest that it would be appropriate to send in Arab troops to stop the killing. How seriously he meant this suggestion remains unclear. He may have been offering this as a practical proposal or merely sending a political message that the Arab world could not wait for ever as Syrians are killed by the dozen every day.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

How the World Could—And Maybe Should—Intervene in Syria -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Atlantic

The Arab League to Syria's President: It's Time for You to Go
-- Rania Abouzeid, Time

Bomb-Bomb-Bomb, Bomb-Bomb-Iran? -- Bill Keller, New York Times

Iran: Between U.S. and a Hard Place
-- Meir Javedanfar, The Diplomat

For the Muslim world, it's not a safe and easy path to modernity
-- Doug Saunders, Globe And Mail

Turkey’s government is the new normal in the Middle East -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

Egypt’s Economic Crisis
-- New York Times editorial

Mansoor Ijaz, instigator behind Pakistan’s ‘Memogate’ -- David Ignatius,Washington Post

Sheikhs fall in love with renminbi -- M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times

Hungary’s Lurch Backward -- New York Times editorial

A Marshall plan wouldn't fix Europe's woes
-- Steven Hill, The Guardian

Europe’s Debt Crisis Is Still Likely to End Badly -- Simon Johnson, Bloomberg

Escaping Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires -- Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times

The rise of the overclass -- Peter Oborne, The Telegraph

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