Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials — November 13, 2009
For almost a decade, Arab regimes have worried about alleged Iranian plans to create a “Shiite crescent” from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, encompassing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and a yet-to-be liberated Palestine. Now fresh fears have grown that the “crescent” may take another shape as well — from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden, and including chunks of Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
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An Officer’s Outrage Over Fort Hood – Major Shawn Keller, Real Clear Politics
Medicalizing mass murder — Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Should General George Casey Resign? — Monte Kuligowski, American Thinker
Barack Obama’s Asian Adventure — The Economist
Before Sunrise: Will Obama seize a rare opportunity for change in U.S.-Japan relations? — R. Taggart Murphy, The New Republic
Obama’s Asian occasions – Charles E. Morrison, Japan Times
Beijing, Global Free-Rider — Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, Foreign Policy
An Agenda for Obama in China — Michael Barbalas, Wall Street Journal
Obama’s Afghanistan plan: the warlord factor — Mark Moyar, CS Monitor
Obama’s Afghanistan options — Olivia Hampton, The Guardian
Obama’s Real Afghanistan Decision — Fred Kaplan, Slate
Afghan Enclave Offers Model to Rebuff Taliban — S. Tavernise, NY Times
One Last Chance to Save Afghan Mission — Nick Clegg, The Times
What Bush Inherited, and What He Left Left Behind — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
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