Friday, February 10, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 10, 2012



Israel And Iran: Closer To Take-Off -- The Economist

Momentum is growing for an Israeli airstrike on Iran—with or without American support

IS IT all part of a carefully calibrated campaign of bluff and rumour intended to support tightening sanctions and bring Iran to the negotiating table, or is the ground really being prepared for an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in the next few months? Perhaps it is neither and the people who count, yet to make up their minds, are frantically hedging and debating.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

No Hotline to Tehran -- Bilal Y. Saab, National Interest

The ball is in Iran's court -- Meir Javedanfar, CNN

The Syrian Endgame: How the U.S. Can Speed Up Revolution -- P.J. Crowley, Daily Beast

Is China Ripe for a Revolution? -- Stephen R. Platt, New York Times

China’s Angry Bulls
-- Zhang Lijia, The Diplomat

Where Is Maldives Headed? -- Lt Gen Prakash C. Katoch (Retd), Outlook India

North Korea’s succession: Kim Jong-un faces tough strategic decisions -- Steven Kim, East Asia Forum

Passive in the face of Sudan’s atrocities
-- Eric Reeves, Washington Post

Egypt’s ominous detention of Americans -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post

Putin Chasing Imaginary American Ghosts
-- Michael Bohm, Moscow Times

Athens's Choosy Beggars -- Wall Street Journal

Euro crisis averted? Don’t believe a word of it -- Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph

Germany, the Eurozone's reluctant driver -- Timothy Garton Ash, L.A. Times

Why is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner reopening old Falklands wounds?
-- Rory Carroll and Uki Goni, The Guardian

Barack Obama's shameless Falklands betrayal will overshadow David Cameron’s Washington visit -- Niles Gardiner, The Telegraph

Don’t Paralyze the Peacekeepers -- Benjamin Kahn, New York Times

Quebec Lessons for Scotland in How to Pop the Question -- Randall Palmer, Real Clear World/Reuters

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