Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- May 30, 2012



Time For U.S. Leadership On Syria -- Washington Post editorial

THE OBSERVERS dispatched by the U.N. Security Council to monitor an illusory “cease fire” in Syria have been reduced to adding up the bodies of massacred civilians. In Houla, a collection of impoverished villages near the city of Homs, they counted 108 after a rampage Friday by a government-backed militia. The dead included 34 women and 49 children.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Russia must cease backing Bashar -- Gulf News editorial

Russia isolating itself over support for Assad -- Rick Moran, American Thinker

Assad Won’t Be Toppled by Words -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary

What Egyptians didn’t vote for
-- Amir Taheri, New York Post

Arabs search for stable political systems -- Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star

How Tehran is outflanking Obama -- Michael Singh, New York Daily News

China Is No Longer Predictable -- Robert D. Kaplan, Stratfor

How China Flouts Its Laws -- Chen Guangcheng, New York Times

China's New Flexibility on Foreign Intervention -- Johan Lagerkvist, Real Clear World

Chinese Democracy Has its Benefits -- Wall Street Journal

Kenya’s Forever War
-- Dayo Olopade, International Herald Tribune

Ireland: The fiscal treaty will only make things worse -- David McWilliams, Independent.ie

Spain’s Lost Generation: What Do You Do When Half Your Country’s Youth is Unemployed? -- Jonathan Blitzer, The New Republic

War crimes: Charles Taylor now, Bashar al-Assad next -- Geoffrey Robertson, The Guardian

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