Monday, May 20, 2013

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- May 20, 2013



Hezbollah's Heading For Sectarian Showdown -- UPI

Hezbollah has taken heavy losses while backing regime forces in Syria, heightening concerns the Shiite movement's heading for a showdown with Sunni jihadists.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 20 (UPI) -- Hezbollah has reportedly taken heavy losses while backing regime forces in Syria who stormed a strategic town near the Lebanese border, heightening concerns the Shiite movement's heading for a showdown with Sunni jihadists that many see as inevitable.

Several hundred Lebanese Shiite fighters played a key part in Sunday's capture of Qusair, which commands the vital supply route between the Syrian capital Damascus and the Mediterranean coast.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Syrian Intervention Would Be a Minefield
-- Michael Sexton, The Australian

The Iranian threat isn’t nuclear – it’s political -- Doug Sanders, The Globe and Mail

China and India's smoldering problem -- Jonathan Levine, Special for CNN

The Forever War In Darfur -- Strategy Page

Egyptians don’t like Morsi’s presidency, but opposition flounders anyway -- Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Foreign Staff

Do white people have a future in South Africa? -- John Simpson, BBC

How China Chokes Its Neighbors -- Geoffrey Cain, Global Post

Chinese premier visits India, talks up trade and trust -- Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor

Why Japan Should Ignore China’s Okinawa Provocation -- Taylor Washburn, The Diplomat

How the world looks from India -- Amitabh Mattoo and Rory Medcalf, The Hindu

Dagestan’s Shadow War, Fought by ‘Many Tsarnaevs’
-- Ellen Barry, New York Times

Greece Isn’t Turning the Corner -- Megan Greene, Bloomberg

Whither the Chilean model? -- Fernando Menendez, The Commentator

Obama’s turn inward poses risk for U.S. interests abroad -- Fred Hiatt, Washington Post

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