Thursday, August 9, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 9, 2012



How To End The Chaos In Syria (A Discussion) -- New York Times

The Assad regime continues to lose crucial support, most recently with the defection of the prime minister and other prominent Sunnis. Meanwhile, opposition factions inside the country continue to jockey for power, many of them financed by foreign entities that have their own agendas. And earlier this week Iran framed the unrest as part of a wider struggle fueled by the United States and “other hostile world powers.”

Some are already calling the conflict a civil war. What can be done to end the fighting, or at least contain it?

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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS

Obama AWOL in Syria -- Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times

Taking the lead on Syria -- Ali Akbar Salehi, Washington Post

Unraveling the Syria Mess: A Crisis Simulation of Spillover from the Syrian Civil War -- Brookings

Getting around a dead-end in Syria -- Washington Post editorial

Fiasco in the Levant: Unless the United States gets serious now about its postwar planning, Syria could spin out of control. -- James Dobbins, Foreign Policy

Egypt's Sinai problem won't be solved with air strikes
-- Fawaz Gerges, The Guardian

What Lies Ahead for Libya: An Interview with the Prime Minister -- Steven Sotloff, Time

NBC not telling the truth about the war in Afghanistan -- Ahmad Majidyar, AEI Ideas

Designating the Haqqani Network: New Constraints Moderating Pakistan’s Relationship with the U.S. -- Reza Jan, AEI Critical Threats

Superpower Denied? Why China’s ‘Rise’ May Have Already Peaked -- Minxin Pei, The Diplomat

The party will write the narrative for Ms. Gu – and for Nexen -- Charles Burton, Globe and Mail

China’s Trial of the Century
-- Gordon G. Chang, World Affairs

Teddy bears and the tyrant of Belarus -- Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service/Newsday

Who will get top jobs in a Romney administration? -- Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy

The continuing financial crisis -- National Editorial

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