Friday, May 18, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- May 18, 2012



Syria’s War Enters Third Gear -- Michael Young, NOW Lebanon

In a bombshell revelation, both literally and figuratively, the Washington Post reported this week that weapons were reaching the Syrian opposition, and that the process was being partly coordinated by the United States. This represents a fundamentally new stage in the Syrian conflict, and in Washington’s approach to it.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Turn the tide against Bashar al-Assad -- Joseph I. Lieberman, Washington Post

Wikileaks Is A Weapon In The Bloody Hands Of Iran -- IBD Editorial

Roll Out the Oil Revenue Weapon -- Cliff Kupchan and Greg Priddy, New York Times

Why is the U.S. doing Special Ops exercise with Egypt and Pakistan? -- Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker

Persecution in Nigeria: Boko Haram's murderous crusade against Christians.
-- American Spectator

Watching the new state of South Sudan fall into chaos -- Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Haaretz

A worthy G-8 proposal aims to lift millions out of poverty
-- Washington Post editorial

Assassination + more NATO killings = Death for peace talks? -- Ashley Fantz, CNN

Crime and Punishment in Afghanistan -- Tim Sullivan, Foreign Affairs

NATO’s undue optimism on Afghanistan -- Ronald E. Neumann and Michael O’Hanlon, Washington Post

Afghanistan: Success or failure? -- Al Jazeera

Russia Lays Siege to Ukraine -- Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs

Why Putin Skipped Out of the G8
-- Michael Bohm, The Moscow Times

Greece to Germany: Time to Say Danke
-- Fareed Zakaria, Time

Germany, the Crisis and the G-8 -- New York Times editorial

Spain: Caught between the Rock and the euro crisis
-- Telegraph editorial

Facebook is being abandoned by its core market. You'd be better off investing in Greek government bonds -- Daniel Knowles, The Telegraph

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