Week of August 26, 2013 Archives

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Monday, August 26
U.S. Will Likely Bomb Assad
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Syria Will Require More than Cruise Missiles
Eliot Cohen, Wash Post
Iran Is the Engine of Syria's Bloodbath
Michael Ledeen, PJ Media
Is Bombing Syria Obama's Best Bad Option?
Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
China Can't Stage a Decent Show Trial
Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
U.S., China and an Unthinkable War
Gompert & Kelly, LA Times
Is Europe Still in Crisis?
Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph
U.S. Adrift on the Nile
Bill Keller, New York Times
Why Egyptians Are Cheering a Bloody Coup
Rachel Shabi, The Guardian
Assad Calls Obama's Bluff
Lee Smith, Weekly Standard
How U.S. Spies on Europe and the UN
Poitras, Rosenbach & Stark, Spiegel
Reports of American Decline Are Exaggerated
Hussein Ibish, The National
In India, Even Cricket Is No Longer Cricket
Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg
CIA Files Prove U.S. Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
Harris & Aid, FP
Our Imperial Disdain for the Emerging World
Zachary Karabell, Reuters
Tuesday, August 27
For U.S., Syria Is Truly a Problem from Hell
Peter Bergen, CNN
Obama Must Kill Bashar al-Assad
Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
Weapons Assad Uses Shouldn't Affect U.S. Policy
Stephen Walt, NY Times
Obama's Bad Syria Bluff
George Friedman, Stratfor
America's Middle East Alliances Are Cracking
Gideon Rachman, FT
Why Bo Stole the Show
Minxin Pei, Project Syndicate
India: Where Are All the Girls?
Sanjay Kumar, The Diplomat
Kerry's Syria Presser: That Was a War Speech
Max Fisher, Wash Post
As Egypt Burns, Zimbabwe Rots
David Meyers, RealClearWorld
The Great Asian Sell-Off
Daniel Altman, Foreign Policy
Don't Blame the Fed for Asia's Problems
William Pesek, Bloomberg
Merkelnomics vs. Abenomics
Laurence Daziano, Les Echos/Worldcrunch
Ottawa, the Ersatz Capital
Andrew Cohen, Ottawa Citizen
Tzipi Livni's Shot at Mideast Peace
Benjamin Birnbaum, Newsweek
The Real West Bank Terror War
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Wednesday, August 28
Obama's Cruise Missile-Shaped Cop Out
Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
The WMD Excuse, Again
Alan Reynolds, National Review
Egypt Needs a Dictator, Not Democracy
Tsvi Bisk, Los Angeles Times
Who Should Clean Up the Mideast Mess?
Ali Salim, Gatestone Institute
How Will Iran React to U.S. War in Syria?
Hanin Ghaddar, NOW Lebanon
Bomb Syria Like Clinton Bombed Iraq
Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Policy
Why Israel Is Cautiously Optimistic
Ilan Berman, FPRI
The Killing Machines
Mark Bowden, The Atlantic
Best Case Scenario in Syria
Gayle Lemmon, Foreign Affairs
A 'Normal' Life in Damascus
Lee Keath, Associated Press
A U.S. Warning to China
Francesco Sisci, Asia Times
Around the World, Anti-Semitism Still Rages
Barbara Kay, National Post
Making Condoms Sexy in Pakistan
Jeremy Stahl, Slate
CIA's Role in Pakistan's Polio Outbreak
Ben Richmond, Vice
The Age of Nationalism
Paul Pillar, The National Interest
Thursday, August 29
American Credibility at Stake in Syria
David Ignatius, Washington Post
How DC Elites Start Unpopular Wars
Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Presidents Don't Ask Permission to Go to War
Kelsey Atherton, WIB
Why Syria Isn't Kosovo
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Can Obama Stop at Just One Airstrike?
Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy
Obama and Putin Are as Far Apart as Ever
Tony Brenton, Daily Telegraph
The Israeli Spring
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
The West Can't Play Global Policeman
Hans Blix, The Guardian
Obama's Real Syria Problem Is Obama
John Podhoretz, New York Post
The Clash of Civilizations?
Samuel Huntington, Foreign Affairs
Welcome to Ryanair Britain
Ross Clark, The Spectator
Tough Times for Hezbollah
Matthew Levitt, National Post
India of 2013 Is Not the India of 1991
M.K. Venu, The Hindu
The 10 Most Expensive International Cities for Business Travel
RCW
Roger Waters Should Stay Behind the Wall
Tzahi Gavrieli, Jerusalem Post
Friday, August 30
One Great Big War in the Middle East
David Brooks, New York Times
Has Iraq Shackled American Power?
David Rohde, Reuters
President Obama: Shamed into War?
Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post
Britain's Illusion of Empire Is Over
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
The British Are Now the French
Alex Berezow, RealClearWorld
Cameron Brought Parliamentary Rebuke on Himself
Max Hastings, Mail
The End of Chinese Megaprojects in Asia?
Trefor Moss, The Diplomat
Why Germany Shuns Its Global Role
Ullrich Fichtner, Der Spiegel
Note to Indian Women: Mumbai Is a Safe City
Jyoti Punwani, The Hindu
Will Iran Fight to the Last Lebanese?
Michael Young, NOW Lebanon
Don't Expect Iran to Fight for Assad
Meir Javedanfar, Al Monitor
Putin's Support for Assad Is Just Words
Julia Ioffe, The New Republic
Al-Qaeda's Potent Force in Syria
Peter Bergen, CNN
Is Israel Bashing on Vancouver Buses Hate Speech?
Jon Kay, Nat'l Post
Cowboys Stadium Uses More Power than My Country
Ellen Sirleaf, FP
Saturday, August 31
The U.S. Loses an Ally
Severin Weiland, Der Spiegel
Assad's Inevitable Propaganda Victory
Hassan Mneimneh, GMF
Wage a Smart War Against Syria
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
How France Became America's Shooting Buddy
Yochi Dreazen, FP
The World Needs Britain
Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph
Britain Can Still Make a Difference in Syria
Ed Miliband, The Guardian
A Much Less Special Relationship
Roger Cohen, New York Times
It's Time to Toughen Up, Obama
Seth Cropsey, RealClearWorld
Obama's Missiles of Impunity
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
Britain's Quiet Demographic Explosion
Daniel Johnson, Standpoint
Secularism in Retreat in France
Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute
What Russia Doesn't Get About Spying
Michael Bohm, Moscow Times
Why Sweden Is a Model Country
C. Fred Bergsten, Washington Post
Have Russian Spies Penetrated WikiLeaks?
Joshua Foust, Medium
America's Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan
Alex Pasternack, Vice
Sunday, September 1
Has America Lost Its Sense of Purpose?
Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph
Intervention Would Destroy Syria
Steven A. Cook, Washington Post
Can Obama Sell a Syria Strike?
Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
Obama: The Most Imperial President
Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
The International System Hinges on Congress' Vote
John Judis, TNR
The Case for NATO Intervention in Syria
Geoffrey Robertson, Australian
Russia's Looming Economic Crisis
Aleksander Zotin, Kommersant
Female Judge in Putin's Crosshairs
Anna Nemtsova, The Daily Beast
Quebec's Heavy-Handed Secularism
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
Rouhani to the Rescue in Iran?
Faezeh Samanian, The Diplomat
British Foreign Policy a Shambles
Alex Massie, Foreign Policy
Is Britain Sleepwalking Toward Isolationism?
Paddy Ashdown, Observer
Obama Shows That Israel Is Truly Alone
Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel
Mexico's Reform Agenda at Risk
Roger Noriega, Miami Herald
South Korea: The Global Underdog
Grace Kim, New Geography
RCW Top 10: Most Expensive Cities for Business Travel
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