Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- June 1, 2011

Osama Bin Laden

The Bin Laden Decade -- Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times

Visiting the Middle East last week, and then coming back to Washington, I am left with one overriding impression: Bin Laden really did a number on all of us.

I am talking in particular about the Arab states, America and Israel — all of whom have deeper holes than ever to dig out of thanks to the Bin Laden decade, 2001 to 2011, and all of whom have less political authority than ever to make the hard decisions needed to get out of the holes.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Mending relations with Pakistan -- Washington Post editorial

The Hawks of South Asia. The dream of a lasting peace between Pakistan and India can't happen unless their militaries get out of the way. -- Basharat Peer, Foreign Policy

Wishing away Iranian nukes -- Washington times editorial

Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas agree on one thing only: they don't like Barack Obama -- Michael Weiss, The Telegraph

Darkness in Palestine -- Michael J. Totten, Pajamas Media

Look Who's Leading NATO -- Alan W. Dowd, the Mark

Is Compaore's reign in Burkina Faso coming to an end? -- Drew Hinshaw, Christian Science Monitor

Russia's Islamist War in the Caucasus: The Caucasus Dark Circle -- Andrei Piontkovsky, Moscow Times

How Dangerous Is Anwar al-Awlaki? -- New York Times

The solution to rising food prices? How about – nothing at all -- Daniel Hannan, The Telegraph

Congress Has War Powers, Too. And it is time to start using them. -- Andrew McCarthy, NRO

Why Canadian investors are angry with America -- David Miller, The Telegraph

You thought Arab dictators were bad? Just look at Fifa -- Ali Khaled, The National