Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 4, 2015

Anne Applebaum, Slate: Europe’s Deadly Denial

The refugee crisis is the consequence of Europe’s refusal to confront the wars on its borders.

LONDON—Picking apart the layers of irony and hypocrisy that surround the European refugee crisis is like peeling an onion without a knife. At a train station in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, police pulled 200 refugees off a train and marked numbers on their arms. On its eastern border, Hungary is building a barbed-wire fence to keep out refugees, remarkably like the barbed-wire “iron curtain” that once marked its western border. Choose whatever image you want—ships full of Jews being sent back to Nazi Europe, refugees furtively negotiating with smugglers at a bar in Casablanca—and it now has a modern twist.

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 4, 2015

Europe's policy did not kill Aylan Kurdi -- Crispian Cuss, Al Jazeera

Orbán and Juncker to face off on migration -- Jacopo Barigazzi and Jan Cienski, Politico

Why Don't Gulf States Accept More Refugees? -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Amid challenges in Middle East, US and Saudi Arabia share goals -- AP

The Last Kings: Succession in the Persian Gulf -- Dana El Baltaji, Bloomberg

The horrific results of Obama’s failure in Syria -- Michael Ggerson, Washington Post

Despite Protests, Collective Self-Defence and Abe Remain -- Malcolm Cook, Lowy Institute

6 Reasons China Would Invade Taiwan -- Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat

If China had to choose, it would be South Korea -- Andrei Lankov, Al Jazeera

The U.S.-South Korea Military Alliance Isn't Working -- Doug Bandow, National Interest

Chechen Jihadis Leave Syria, Join the Fight in Ukraine -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast

What’s Happening in Guatemala? -- Greg Grandin, The Nation

There’s No Contest. Russia and ISIS Are Most Threatening -- New York Times

The Hardest Places in the World to Visit -- Albert Podell, The Atlantic