Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- May 15, 2012



Brace, Brace. Dark Times Ahead As Greece Heads For The Exit -- Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph

European policymakers are about to commit another major blunder in their handling of the eurozone debt crisis, and this time it could well be fatal.

Mistakenly, they have convinced themselves that it won't much matter if Greece leaves, and indeed that it might even help resolve the wider crisis to get rid of this persistent thorn in the flesh.

Bring it on, they mutter callously; it will be a lot worse for them than for us. On one level, this is just bravado. It's an attempt to put as nonchalant a face as possible on the now apparently inevitable. But they also seem to believe in their validity of their own analysis – that they have indeed used the past two years well, and are now fully prepared for a Greek exit.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Greece Can No Longer Delay Euro Zone Exit -- Spiegel Online editorial

France's Gaullist Foreign Policy -- George Friedman, Stratfor

France: Back to Utopia? -- Guy Sorman, Project Syndicate

Obama’s unanswered question on Afghanistan -- David Meyers, Daily Caller

High-profile ouster in China points to battle between reformists, hard-liners
-- Mark MacKinnon, Globe and Mail

A Landmark Ruling in South Africa -- Peter Godwin, New York Times

Ukraine’s windfall offers freedom from Russia
-- Washington Post editorial

Okinawans deserve better -- Japan Times editorial

Iran Declares Victory in Nuclear Talks -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary

Mr. President, please don’t kill this terrorist
-- Marc Thiessen, Washington Post

Don't tell anyone, but that al Qaeda mole op had zero to do with the Obama administration -- Andrew Malcolm, Investors.com

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