Friday, October 5, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- October 5, 2012

Into the firing line: the effect of the attack has been to galvanise Western powers into action Photo: Reuters

Be Wary Of Playing Turkey’s Great Game -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph

The state is taking a lead role in unseating Syria’s Assad, but it has a hidden agenda.

Syria might be getting all the blame for firing the first shot in the sudden eruption of hostilities on the Turko-Syrian border, but Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, can hardly claim to be an innocent party when it comes to stoking the fires of a conflict that retains the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Syria becomes a wedge between U.S. and Turkey
-- Soner Cagaptay, Washington Post

The Specter of Turkish-Syrian War -- Sonia Cagaptay, Wall Street Journal

Syria Conflict Can’t Be Wished Away -- Max Boot, Commentary

Iran on the Verge of Hyperinflation -- Megan McArdle, Daily Beast

Hyperinflation: Iran's way out – possibly -- Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph

Inside Bibi's Bunker: How Israel's prime minister is stacking his cabinet for a strike on Iran. -- Chuck Frelich, Foreign Policy

Analysis: Egypt's Mursi dogged by own promises in first 100 days -- Tom Perry, Reuters

Severe Economic Crisis in Russia Looms
-- Kim Zigfeld, PJ Media

Hugo Chávez vs Henrique Capriles: Venezuelan vote will have regional impact
-- Andrew Rosati, Christian Science Monitor

In Venezuela, everything's in play -- Juan Nagel, Foreign Policy

Why Silicon Valley is losing its luster -- CNN Global Public Square

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