Thursday, February 16, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 16, 2012



The Iran Conflict Is Intensifying Step by Step -- Spiegel Online

Taken together, the myriad developments are baffling. Iran says it has made advances in nuclear research, but wants to resume talks with the West. It is threatening to cut off oil supplies to Europe while allegedly sponsoring attacks against Israeli diplomats. German editorialists attempt to make sense of the confusion.

Is anyone at the controls in Iran? It is a question that many in the West are asking following this week's flurry of announcements, denials and conciliatory advances centering on the country's nuclear program. Perhaps even more vexing, however, is the fact that Tehran is also thought to be behind a series of decidedly amateurish attacks targeting Israeli diplomatic personnel in Georgia, India and Thailand.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Iran’s fingerprints are all over clumsy Thai bomb attempt -- Michael Ross, National Post

What would happen if Iran had the bomb? -- Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor

Is There Really a Consensus Against Iran Containment? -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary

An election campaign built on terrorism? Welcome to Iran
-- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph

How Iran Nuke Standoff Looks to Saudis
-- Mustafa Alani, Bloomberg

How Syria's Assad plans to survive -- Nicholas Blanford, Christian Science Monitor

A Syrian resistance leader's plea to the world -- Muhammad Zuka, CNN

Washington's War in Yemen Backfires -- Jeremy Scahill, The Nation

China’s upcoming leader Xi Jinping has been wined, dined... and warned -- Peter Foster, The Telegraph

War Comes to Mali -- Roger Kaplan, Weekly Standard

Obama should take the offensive on Cuba
-- Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald

No one should burn in prison
-- Frida Ghitis, CNN

Is Germany trying to bully Greece out of the eurozone? -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy

Germany's smear campaign against Greece
-- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph

Will Greek government follow through with austerity program?
-- Rick Moran, American Thinker

Obama's Irrational Warhead Cuts: Nuclear Gun Control -- IBD Editorial

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