Monday, February 27, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- february 27, 2012



NATO Pulls Out Of Afghan Ministries. What's The Impact? -- Tom A. Peter & Zubair Babakarkhail, Christian Science Monitor

Many Afghans say advisers create a valuable link to NATO and foreign donors, but Afghans who work close with the advisers say the training and oversight varies in quality.

The UN pulled its international staff out of their base in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz Monday after it came under attack by demonstrators protesting the burning of Qurans by NATO personnel last week.

The UN staff relocation comes on the heels of a NATO recall of all its personnel from government offices in Kabul after an Afghan killed two Americans Saturday in the Ministry of Interior.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Karzai goes crazy
-- Don Surber, Daily Mail

Afghanistan: Let’s Get Out -- John Hinderaker, Power Line

America's Alibis for Not Helping Syria -- Fouad Ajami, Real Clear World

Why Nobody Will Help the Syrian People -- Josef Joffe, The New Republic

An economic bloodbath will test Assad's staying power
-- Faisal Al Yafai, The National

Hamas’s Desertion of Assad is Body Blow
-- Max Boot, Commentary

Qatar’s divided world -- Peter Goodspeed, National Post

All of Western Civilization Could Soon Be Threatened By a Nuclear Iran -- Martin Peretz, The New Republic

How serious is the bombast from North Korea? -- Donald Kirk, Christian Science Monitor

Russia: a gangster state -- Telegraph editorial

Despite second bailout, Greece is still a time bomb -- Eric Reguly, Globe and Mail

Top 5 signs of a weakening FARC in Colombia -- Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor

Europe is Pouring Money Into a Bottomless Barrel
-- Spiegel Online

Will Scotland Go Its Own Way? -- Neal Ascherson, New York Times

Chavez’s Cancer Mystery: What if Venezuela’s President Doesn’t Run for Re-Election? -- Tim Padgett, Time

Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth -- David Carr, New York Times

Obama's oil problem
-- Fareed Zakaria, CNN

On Stratfor, Assange and Anonymous just don't get it -- Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor

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