Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- October 10, 2012

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in flames on Sept. 11, 2012. Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters

Obama’s Foreign Policy Narrative Unravels -- James Kirchick, New York Daily News

The failure to tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi is a stain on the President's record.

On Sept. 11, the day he was killed in what we now know was an assassination deliberately planned to coincide with the terrorist attacks 11 years earlier, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens approved a cable to the State Department warning about the deteriorating security situation in the Libyan city of Benghazi. The dispatch noted that the leaders of two militias, some of whose members were tasked with protecting the American consulate, had threatened to quit, in protest of alleged American support for a prime ministerial candidate they did not like.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

A Technological Fix for Safely Arming Syria's Rebels -- Anthony Cordesman, Real Clear World

A third option in Syria -- Robert A. Pastor, L.A. Times

In Syria’s destruction, there is much to mourn
-- Andrew Lawler, Washington Post

Iraq's Endless Humanitarian Crisis -- Irena L. Sargsyan, The National Interest

Team Obama and crunch time on Tehran -- Michael Widlanski, Jerusalem Post

What if there's real change in the Middle East? -- Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy

Kissinger offers wise words on China -- Walter Pincus, Washington Post

China Strikes Back: Defending Huawei and ZTE From Its Congressional Critics
-- David Wertime, The Atlantic

Huawei and the China difference -- Isabel Hilton, The Guardian

Paul Kagame's Rwanda: African success story or authoritarian state?
-- David Smith, The Guardian

Can Germany Save the Euro? -- Dalibor Rohac, New York Times

Chávez Wins, Kirchner Wins
-- Daniel Politi, International herald Tribune

Chávez Rides Again -- Michael Albertus, Foreign Policy

The dangers of delaying heightened cybersecurity
-- Joseph I. Lieberman, Washington Post

Q&A with Silicon Valley “Godfather” Steve Blank -- Jon Cook, Reuters

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