Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- January 14, 2014



Inside Iraq: Two Years After U.S. Withdrawal, Are Things Worse Than Ever? -- Michael Holmes, CNN

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- On a bitterly cold December morning in 2011, we watched as the last U.S. troops crossed the border into Kuwait, ending America's war in Iraq.

More than 100 vehicles were in that convoy, snaking its way across the desert and through the floodlit border crossing, leaving behind empty bases and memories of nearly 4,500 American lives that were lost.

Americans breathed a sigh of relief. Many Iraqis held their breath. War, they feared, was far from over for them, and time has borne out their fears. The death and violence never stopped -- it's just that the bombs and bullets faded from American minds and television screens once the pull-out was complete.

Two years later we're back in Iraq and things are in many ways worse for Iraqis than when the Americans left.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Can Iraq overcome Al Qaeda insurgency? -- Christopher Snyder, FOX News

The Next War in Iraq -- Bloomberg editorial

Al Qaeda resurgence in Iraq: why Pentagon sees a silver lining -- Anna Mulrine, Christian Science Monitor

Iraqi Deputy PM Asks Obama for Election Monitors -- Eli Lake,

Can Iraq Survive? -- Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest

Egypt’s fight for democracy -- Jerusalem Post editorial

Why Egyptians Are Voting Away Their Freedoms -- Jared Malsin, Time

South Sudan is divided by the spoils of oil, not ethnicity -- Khalid Mustafa Medani, The Guardian

In Thailand, Mass Protests Against Democracy -- Zachary Keck, The Diplomat

Hold the scandal. Here's Hollande's remedy for France's ailing economy -- Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor

'Affair' story will continue to rumble in France -- Christian Fraser, BBC

Spin on Venezuelan star’s murder seeks to obscure rampant violence -- Tim Padgett, Miami Herald

Robert Gates waited too long to speak out -- Dana Milbank, Washington Post

The long slog toward a nuclear-free world -- Washington Post editorial

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