Friday, August 3, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 3, 2012



Q&A: What Options Are Left In Syria? -- CNN

(CNN) -- The violence drags on in Aleppo and Damascus, Kofi Annan resigns as U.N. special envoy and U.S. officials reveal that President Obama had signed a secret order allowing clandestine support.

What's next for the country mired in violence since March 2011, when President Bashar al-Assad's forces began cracking down on anti-government demonstrators?

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Collapse or decentralization for Syria? -- Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star

The lessons of failure in Syria
-- Washington Post editorial

Syria and the Bosnia Fallacy -- Nikolas K. Gvosdev, National Interest

Terra Incognita: All quiet in the Golan? -- Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post

Al Assad uses Kurds to fan regional tensions
-- Patrick Seale, Special to Gulf News

Kofi Annan Resigns -- New York The Sun editorial

North Waziristan: The problem no one wants to talk about -- Chris Sands, Global Post

Pushing Seoul-Tokyo forward -- Ralph Cossa, Japan Times

Why Nationalism is Driving China and Japan Apart
-- James Manicom, The Diplomat

Salami Slicing in the South China Sea
-- Robert Haddick, Foreign Policy

Blackout nation: Power cuts in India show that a lack of reform is beginning to hurt ordinary people. -- The Economist

Keeping Sudan from becoming another Syria -- John Prendergast and Dave Eggers, Washington Post

Hugo Chavez: An uncounted enemy. Those who contend Venezuela is no threat are clueless -- Roger F. Noriega, Washington Times

Corn’s 60% Surge Is More Dangerous Than Euro Mess -- William Pesek Bloomberg

The Great Islamist Comeback -- Abe Greenwald, Commentary

It's Far from Safe to Say al-Qaeda Is Dead -- Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Real Clear World

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