Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 3, 2016

There are no civilians left living in Sinjar. (Photo: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)

Nolan Peterson, Daily Signal: The Face of Evil: Surveying the ISIS Killing Fields in Northern Iraq

SINJAR, Iraq—Evil doesn’t always reveal itself through goose-stepping armies or skyscrapers collapsing on a clear autumn day.

Sometimes, it’s only a sun-bleached bone in a field.

This was the place the old peshmerga colonel wanted to show me. It wasn’t anything special by the look of it. Certainly, this plot of brown grass on a hillside in northern Iraq was less impressive than Sinjar’s endless rows of pulverized buildings, blasted to bits by Islamic State bombs and U.S. airstrikes.

But here on this plot of land, so easily overlooked, a few white bones and some tattered clothes melded into the earth. All that remained of 24 people. Men, women, and children. Civilians. Murdered by ISIS. Their bodies left in the open to rot; their bones picked clean by wild animals and stray dogs, and then burnt white by the sun.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 3, 2016

Isis at real risk of losing territory for first time since 'caliphate' declared -- Martin Chulov, The Guardian

Russia Pounds the Achilles’ Heel of America’s ISIS War -- Nancy Youssef, Daily Beast

Alleged 'IS' terrorists captured in Germany: How high is the risk of an attack? -- Marcel Fürstenau, DW

A Multi-Trillion-Dollar Bridge to Nowhere in the Middle East -- Andrew Bacevich, Tom Dispatch

What's India Got Over China? Plenty. -- A. Gary Shilling, Bloomberg

Why Malaysia Stays Quiet About Its Claims In The South China Sea -- Ralph Jennings, Forbes

Two Weeks Into Presidency, Taiwan Leader Pushes Away From China -- Ting Shi, Bloomberg

Don’t Look Now, but China Is Doing Pretty Well -- Chris Matthews, Fortune

China's Perspective on North Korea -- George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures

Western Sahara independence movement at crossroads after Polisario chief's death -- Patrick Markey and Aziz El Yaakoubi, Reuters

Poland is having a constitutional crisis. Here’s why you should care. -- Hannah Thoburn, VOX

Is France's Fifth Republic Doomed? -- Robert Zaretsky, Real Clear World

The British Prime Minister Faces a Popular Mutiny -- Telegraph editorial

Brexit could trigger defence review, says leading thinktank -- Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian

Why what's happening in France isn't 'just another French strike' -- Sara Miller Llana, CSM