Week of June 16, 2014 Archives

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Monday, June 16
Will ISIS Plan a 9/11-Style Attack on the U.S.?
Rebecca Kaplan, CBS News
Only America Can Prevent Disaster in Iraq
Paul Bremer, Wall St Journal
America's Mideast Delusions
Flynt & Hillary Leverett, National Interest
Arguing over 2003 Won't Solve the Current Mideast Crisis
Tony Blair
Blair Is Mad to Deny His Role in the Iraq Mess
Boris Johnson, Telegraph
Can Obama Pull a Nixon on Iraq?
Andrew Bacevich, Los Angeles Times
Obama Got the Result He Wanted in Iraq
Robert Tracinski, The Federalist
Iran's Uncertain Intervention in Iraq
Meir Javedanfar, Al Monitor
India's Quest to End World Hunger
Philip Bethge, Der Spiegel
How U.S. Politics Undermines U.S. Security
Clive Crook, Bloomberg View
Beijing Is Tempting Fate
Michael Mazza, The Diplomat
Europe's Not Lazy -- Americans Make Wrong Trade-Off
Tom Keane, Globe
Corruption Rumors Sideline Beautiful Game
Kevin Rafferty, Japan Times
The West Must Intervene in Nigeria
Olivier Guitta, National Post
Jordan Has a Jihadi Problem Too
David Schenker, The American Interest
Tuesday, June 17
Washington Should Pivot to Persia
Trita Parsi, Foreign Policy
Think Twice Before Embracing Iran
Benedict Brogan, Daily Telegraph
Putin Has Exposed Europe's Cracks
Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal
The Sectarian Myth of Iraq
Sami Ramadani, The Guardian
Time for a U.S. Triage in the Mideast
Adam Garfinkle, American Interest
ISIS a Fanatical Force -- with a Weakness
Charles Lister, CNN
China's Brewing Subprime Crisis
William Pesek, Bloomberg View
The Birth of Kurdistan? Not So Fast
Chase Winter, The National Interest
Netanyahu's Pivot to China
Jon Emont, Tablet Magazine
Has Alex Salmond Already Won?
Brian Groom, Financial Times
Will Marine Le Pen Disown Her Father?
Erna Paris, Globe and Mail
The Fetish of Staring at Iran's Women
Haleh Anvari, New York Times
How Terror Fuels the Illegal Antiques Trade
Heather Pringle, Nat Geo
China's Not So Secret War on Religion
Steve Finch, The Diplomat
Vancouver's Revolutionary Fix for Gridlock
Andrew Coyne, National Post
Wednesday, June 18
Islam's 30 Years War Has Begun
Douglas Murray, The Spectator
The Arab World Comes Undone
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
This Is What Putin Wants
Dan Peleschuk, Global Post
The Conundrum of a Unified Iraq and Syria
Thomas Friedman, NY Times
Years of Living Dangerously Lie Ahead
Clifford May, Washington Times
How Good Is the U.S. at Ending Wars?
David Stout, Time
The Rise of Saudi America
Chris Sorensen, Maclean's
Ghosts of Europe's Religious Wars Haunts Iraq
James Stavridis, FP
Russia's Silver Lining
Chris Weafer, Moscow Times
The Moral Case for U.S. Restraint
Noah Berlatsky, The Atlantic
Ignoring the Elephant
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
A Kurdish State Could Be Explosive
Barbarani & Waldman, Haaretz
Thatcher's Revolution Still Unfinished
Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph
The Delusion of the Irish
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
The Mexican City Pumping Pimps, Sex Slaves into U.S.
M. Zeller, Fusion
Thursday, June 19
U.S. Signals Iraq's Maliki Should Go
Solomon & Lee, Wall Street Journal
Why the Jihadists Keep Coming Back
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Spectator
Dick Cheney's Chutzpah
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
America's Middle East Dilemma
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
George W. Bush's Legacy of War
Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star
The Case for Patriotism & Partition in Iraq
Daniel Hannan, The Telegraph
Why the Global Economy Still Needs Saudi Arabia
Steve LeVine, Quartz
Putin Is Just Getting Started in Ukraine
Michael Weiss, The Daily Beast
Ahmed Abu Khattala Speaks
Mary Fitzgerald, The New Yorker
Afghanistan's Latest Crisis
Sune Engel Rasmussen, New Republic
The Loneliness of the Tyrant
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Why Are Rwandans Disappearing?
L. Santoro & S. Thomson, NY Times
The Global War on Christians
Paul Marshall, Weekly Standard
The Cults of South Korea
John Power, The Diplomat
Israel Treads Fine Line in Hunt for Teens
Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel
Friday, June 20
Can Iraq Hold Together?
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
Obama, Not Bush, Is Responsible for Iraq
Charles Krauthammer, NRO
U.S. Taps Old Allies for New Iraq War
Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
Obama Plan Leaves Iraq Mostly on Its Own
Lara Jakes, Associated Press
U.S. Shouldn't Choose Sides in Iraq's Civil War
Rand Paul, Wall St Journal
How Maliki Ruined Iraq
Zaid Al-Ali, Foreign Policy
The Case for Bashar al-Assad
Chase Carter, The National Interest
China and America: Passive-Aggressive Powers
Ian Bremmer, Reuters
A World Full of Militarized NGOs
Moises Naim, The Atlantic
Juan Manuel Santos' Great Idea
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Vancouver's Gender-Neutral Pronoun Wars
Margaret Wente, G&M
A Climate of Fear in Thailand
Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Japan Times
Russia's New Export: Intellectuals Fleeing Putin
Marc Bennetts, Vocativ
How Pacifism Became a German Lifestyle
Henryk Broder, Die Welt
1 Attack Left This Country in Total Darkness
Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Forbes
Saturday, June 21
America's Mideast Mistakes Keep Multiplying
Robert Merry, TNI
Maliki: Another Failed Arab Leader
Sonja Zekri, Suddeutsche Zeitung
No Sex Please, We're French
Zachary Karabell, Slate
Is Every Society Ready for Democracy?
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
Abdullah Just Dealt a Serious Blow to Afghanistan
Catherine Putz, RCW
The French (Jihad) Connection
Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal
Why China Worries Washington
Amy Zegart, The American Interest
The Noose Tightens on Hamas
Elior Levy, Ynet News
Could ISIS Take Jordan Next?
Taylor Luck, The National
Britain's Jihadist Threat Is Growing
Philip Johnston, Daily Telegraph
Pakistan's Nukes Are at Risk
Reshmi Kazi, Hindustan Times
Norway Outlaws Begging
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Iceland Has a Serious Thing for Elves
Emma Kirby, BBC News
Hamas' Unlikely Female Voice
Julia Amalia Heyer, Der Spiegel
Whose Palestine?
Nathan Thrall, New York Review of Books
Sunday, June 22
The War That Made Our World
Margaret MacMillan, Wall Street Journal
How 2014 Is Strikingly Similar to 1914
John McLaughlin, Ozy
Answering Cleric's Call, Iraqi Shiites Take Up Arms
C.J. Chivers, NYT
Iraq, Syria Wars Merge, Feed Off Each Other
Karam & Abdul-Zahra, AP
How Obama Misread the Public on Foreign Policy
Max Boot, Commentary
Being a Neocon Means Never Having to Apologize
Stephen Walt, FP
War Lite -- Obama's Limited Iraq Goals
Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
China's Deafening Silence on Iraq
Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
Is Brazil Still the Country of the Future?
Aaron Renn, New Geography
Pakistan's Offensive, America's Withdrawal
Steve Coll, The New Yorker
UK Should Welcome China -- It Is the Future
Martin Jacques, Telegraph
Would Americans Die for Asia?
Harry Kazianis, The National Interest
The U.S. Immigration System Is Broken
Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
The One Area of World Politics Where Europe Excels
Dan Drezner, WaPo
In Trudeau's World, Christians Need Not Apply
Rex Murphy, Nat'l Post
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