Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 6, 2013



Al-Qaeda On The Run? No Way, Say Experts -- Oren Dorell, USA Today

In the past year Islamic radicals have injected its fighters into several conflicts throughout the Middle East and Africa, and mounted numerous attacks.

The continued closure of 20 U.S. embassies across the Middle East and parts of Africa amid increased al-Qaeda activity in the region is the latest example showing that U.S. counterterrorism strategy has failed to adapt to the terrorists' spread, analysts say.

Despite the decimation of al-Qaeda's core leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan, "Al-Qaeda has been able to morph over the past decade as a function of U.S. strategy countering it," says Hassan Mneimneh, an analyst at the German Marshall Fund.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

US overreacting to Al Qaeda terror threat? -- FOX News

Why al-Qaeda in Yemen scares the West -- Frank Gardner, BBC

Al Qaeda threat? US embassy closings signal it has changed, not disappeared. -- Howard LaFranchi, Christina Science Monitor

How We Lost Yemen. The United States used the Pakistan playbook on Yemen's terrorists. It didn't work. -- Gregory D. Johnsen, Foreign Policy

Yemen drone strike and US evacuation: Signs of drone war intensification? -- Howard LaFranchi, Christina Science Monitor

Global terror alert inconsistent with U.S. portrayal of weakened al Qaida -- Hannah Allam and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Washington Bureau

The al-Qaida scare -- Jerusalem Post editorial

The al-Qaeda menace the U.S. helped to create -- Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

Kashmir attack could put India-Pakistan peace talks on ice -- Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor

No ties? No problem as China courts Taiwan's remaining allies -- Lucy Hornby and Luc Cohen, Reuters

Sun Tzu Would Disapprove of China's Strategy -- Robert A. Manning, National Interest

Why Robert Mugabe scored a landslide victory in Zimbabwean elections -- Blessing-Miles Tendi, The Guardian

Why are Spain and Britain butting heads over Gibraltar? -- Andrés Cala, Christian Science Monitor

Hungary's culture is being crushed or co-opted -- Blessing-Miles Tendi, The Guardian

When Buddhists Turn Nasty -- Charu Lata Hogg, The Diplomat

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