Is Syria Unsolvable? -- Aaron David Miller, CNN
(CNN) -- Is Syria Barack Obama's Rwanda? The Stanford University scholar, Fouad Ajami, usually an astute and wise observer on matters Middle Eastern, raised this question (and false analogy) with CNN's Anderson Cooper several weeks ago.
Comparing atrocities is a profitless and cruel but still -- at times -- an important exercise, at least for some perspective. Rwanda was a comprehensive and directed genocide in which Hutus killed 10,000 Tutsis a day during three months in 1994. It wasn't a regime against rebels or a civil war; it was a systematic extermination.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Is Syria becoming the new Iraq? -- Shashank Joshi, CNN
Syria Is Not a Problem from Hell: But if we don't act quickly, it will be. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Foreign Policy
What the U.S. should do about Syria -- Washington Post editorial
Obama's Syria Policy: Ask Putin -- Lee Smith, Weekly Standard
Russia's rigidity on Syria has roots in another civil war -- Alan Philps, The National
Iraq's Maliki consolidates power, and critics fail to keep pace -- Reidar Visser, The National
Mubarak verdict could re-ignite Egypt revolution -- Peter Goodspeed, National Post
China Tests Law of the Sea Treaty -- Max Boot, Commentary
Is America turning a new leaf in Southeast Asia? -- Kevin H.R. Villanueva, Jakarta Post
The slow death of British Australia -- Nick Bryant, The Interpreter
Venezuela’s Top Party Prison -- Francisco Toro, International Herald Tribune
Blame Game, European-Style -- New York Times editorial
Is It (Finally) Crunch Time in Europe? -- Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
The Coming Global Recession -- Matthew Yglesias, Slate
China Struggling to Respond to U.S. Energy Revolution -- Iain Mills, World Politics Review
Military Exercises and Political Correctness -- Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker
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