Can Diplomacy Succeed With Iran And Syria? -- David Ignatius, Washington PostHopefully we won’t see a Middle East replay of “The Guns of August,” as Barbara Tuchman titled her account of the slide toward World War I. But the region is edgy this summer as negotiators struggle to resolve confrontations with Syria and Iran.
One small sign of the rising tension is that Saudi Arabia is said to have alerted some of its military and security officials to cancel their summer leaves. Saudi and U.S. sources say this limited mobilization reflects worries about possible military conflict with Iran, the war of succession in Syria, and Sunni-Shiite tensions in neighboring Bahrain.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Syria: To oppose, or not to oppose? -- Maher Arar, Al Jazeera
The Country That Is the World: Syria’s Clashing Communities -- Charles Glass, World Affairs
How Syria Divided the World -- Michael Ignatieff, New York Review Of Books
The ‘Great Game’ 2.0 -- Richard Weitz, The Diplomat
Afghanistan, from bad to worse -- Steve Chapman, Washington Examiner
Oil dispute, proxy wars threaten stability of the two Sudans -- Washington Post editorial
Tiny Changes in North Korea: Kim Jong Un Sends Cautious Signals of Reform -- Andreas Lorenz, Spiegel Online
China’s Economy, Still Strong -- Steven Rattner, New York Times
Putin's Fear Strategy Is Losing Its Edge -- Vladimir Gelman, The Moscow Times
Proud Spain again humbles itself to the euro’s demands -- Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph
Why Spain should take the money and (as soon as it's economically prudent) run -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy
NBC News Declared Dead: Microsoft Leaves MSNBC -- Jeffrey Lord, American Thinker
The World Is Changing Minute by Minute -- Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Why we still love the Stones -- David Browne, CNN
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