Thursday, March 22, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- March 22, 2012



Mohamed Merah And The War On Terror’s New Front -- Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast

The French gunman killed today represents a slippery new threat: al Qaeda-inspired lone wolves versed in evading detection. Christopher Dickey talks to NYPD’s police chief about how to stop them. Plus, Tracy McNicoll has new details from the police raid.

When Mohamed Merah died in a brief, ferocious gunfight with a French SWAT team today after a 32-hour siege in Toulouse, his own killing spree came to a definitive end. But there is growing concern among American and European law-enforcement officials that this petty-thief-turned-jihadist-murderer represents dangerous changes in the way terrorists operate that are extremely hard to monitor or to stop.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Why Iran Thinks America Won't Attack -- Reza Kahlili, American Thinker

Iran Watch: Is the United States waivering? -- Uri Friedman, Foreign Policy

Turkey Vs. Iran: The Regional Battle for Hearts and Minds -- Mustafa Akyol, Foreign Affairs

US tells Turkey to back off Syria -- Tony Badran, NOW Lebanon

Have We Learned Nothing From the Nineties? Syria is the Balkans All Over Again -- Radwan Ziadeh, The New Republic

Wrong Ways to Fight Assad
-- New York Times editoria

An Iraq ruled by one – or none
-- Michael Bell, Globe and Mail

No Saudi Spring
-- Madawi Al-Rasheed, Real Clear World

In Egypt, a cellphone is a wireless lifeline -- Joseph Mayton, Jerusalem Post

Karzai The Ingrate
-- IBD Editorial

A Split in China’s Leadership? The removal of a top Communist party official doesn’t tell us much. -- Michael Auslin, NRO

China's foreign policy is playing catch-up with its new status
-- Tania Branigan, The Guardian

Still the People’s Republic of Rumors -- Christina Larson, Foreign Policy

You Can't Teach a New Kim Old Tricks: In an unusually witless move, Pyongyang's missile launch shoots down its own strategy to get food aid. -- Andrei Lankov, Wall Street Journal

The Cracks in the BRICS -- Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate

A Defeat for Democracy in Mali Coup
-- Michael Rubin, Commentary

Africans must unite against the Mali coup -- Daily Nation editorial

Europeans choose sides over financial crisis -- Harold Meyerson, Washington Post

The Overextended America -- R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., American Spectator

Faith-based energy policy
-- Victor Davis Hanson, Chicago Tribune

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