Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 8, 2012



Intervention In Syria Will Escalate Not Stop The Killing -- Seumas Milne, The Guardian

Russia and China blocked a bid to force regime change. But a negotiated settlement is the only way out of civil war

There is no limit, it seems, to the blood price Arabs have to pay for their "spring". After the carnage in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya, Syria's 11-month-old uprising grows ever more gruesome. Four days of bombardment of rebel-controlled districts in the Syrian city of Homs have yielded horrific images and reports from the embattled Bab al-Amr opposition stronghold: of mosques full of corpses, streets strewn with body parts, residential areas reduced to rubble.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

The Real Story on Syria, and Why It Matters -- Rob Miller, American Thinker

If we bomb Iran, Tehran will go nuclear. Is that really what Niall Ferguson wants? -- David Blair, The Telegraph

Iran’s Achilles’ Heel -- Efraim Halevy, New York Times

Get Used to it Washington, Netanyahu’s Not Going Anywhere
-- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary

How we learned not to fear China’s bomb
-- Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen

Russia’s Potemkin democracy -- Anne Applebaum, Washington Post

It's Time To End the Greek Rescue Farce
-- Stefan Kaiser, Spiegel Online

The upside of Greece's devastating debt crisis
-- Chicago Tribune editorial

Cuba: Wanna buy a revolution?
-- Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Cristina Kirchner's sabre-rattling will not dent British resolve over the Falkland islands -- Nile Gardiner, The Telegraph

A U.N. — but for good guys -- Jonah Goldberg, L.A. Times

The Vatican's Calls for Global Financial Reform -- Samuel Gregg, Foreign Affairs

International aid has become more important to the donors than the recipients -- Daniel Hannan, The Telegraph

Americans Gaining Energy Independence With U.S. as Top Producer -- Rich Miller, Asjylyn Loder and Jim Polson, Bloomberg Businessweek

A Post-American World? The reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated. -- Victor Davis Hanson, NRO

The Zuckerberg Tax -- David S. Miller, New York Times

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