Friday, October 19, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- October 19, 2012

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Obama’s Chain Of Command Unravels Over Benghazi Murders -- Adm. James A. Lyons, Washington Times

No one held accountable for American deaths


An absence of accountability now overshadows the Obama administration’s failures to defend Americans from radical Islam. The initial attempt to brand the attack on the Benghazi U.S. consulate as a spontaneous outburst over an anti-Muslim video has been discredited by the slow revelation that the September 11 terrorist attack which killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans was carried out by an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)-affiliated terrorist group, Ansar al-Sharia, led by a former released jihadi Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu. We now also know that not only were embassy requests for increased security forces denied, but security was scaled back and replaced by local Libyan Militia personnel.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Obama is responsible for the mess in Libya -- Andrew P. Napolitano, Washington Times

US justice likely coming soon to Benghazi with extrajudicial executions -- Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian

Lebanon's great divide exposed by assassination of security chief -- Martin Chulov, The Guardian

An Intriguing New Mideast Peace Proposal -- Mortimer B. Zuckerman, US News and World Report

Rwanda risks new regional conflict -- National Editorial

A Roll of the Dice: North Korea’s Economic Reform Gamble -- Steve Finch, The Diplomat

Tokyo's Missing Muscle: How Japan's Politics Derail its Military Strategy -- Takashi Yokota and Kirk Spitzer, Foreign Affairs

Pakistan’s Reckoning -- Fouad Ajami, Bloomberg

The Malala Effect: Pakistanis Are Angry, Want to Finish Off the Taliban -- Abubakar Siddique, The Atlantic

U.S.-German relationship on the rocks -- Ian Bremmer and and Mark Leonard, Washington Post

Everyone has it in for the Germans at this EU summit. But their stalling this time has a point -- Adrian Hamilton, The Independent

Why risk Mexico trade war? -- Mickey Kantor, Politico

The end of the New World Order -- Seumas Milne, The Guardian

1 comment:

D.Plowman said...

Saddening that four deaths need to be played out in a political game, by both sides, who have nothing but selfish reasoning behind whatever agenda that has been playing out behind the scenes at the White House.

That is the sad reality of today.