Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 15, 2012



Iran's Good Cop, Bad Cop Act: Agrees To Talks, Flaunts Nuclear Advances -- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor

Iran has agreed to return to talks about its nuclear program. But it also trumpeted advances in that nuclear program, showing that it wants to bargain from a position of strength.

Iran’s trumpeting of what it says are major advances in its uranium-enrichment activities overshadowed another announcement Tehran made Wednesday – that it has formally accepted an invitation from international powers to return to talks on its nuclear program.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Iran Is Ready to Talk -- Dennis B. Ross, New York Times

On Iran, a stark choice -- Benny Morris, L.A. Times

Most Americans support using force to prevent a nuclear Iran -- Uri Friedman, Foreign Policy

Iran Thinks the West is Bluffing -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary

Israel Makes Preparations for War -- Giulio Meotti, Commentary

The Libyan Non-Model. What to do when there are no good choices? -- Victor Davis Hanson, NRO

Reality of Hamas-Fatah unity -- Ramzy Baroud, Gulf News

Too close for comfort. In the war in Afghanistan it is not always obvious which side Pakistan is on -- The Economist

UN veto suggests assertive China -- Frank Ching, The China Post

Suns Rise and Set Rapidly in China Leadership Opera -- Brian Rhoads & Benjamin Kang Lim, Real Clear World/Reuters

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade. An Aging African Leader Whose Time Has Ended -- G. Pascal Zachary, The Atlantic

Europe v. World
-- Edwin M. Truman, New York Times

The Limits Of A Messy World: Rating Obama’s Foreign Policy Record -- Ansgar Graw, World Crunch/Die Welt

Obama’s Falklands Failure -- Robert C. O'Brien, The Diplomat

Do Special Ops Forces Have Too Much Autonomy?
-- Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times

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