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Opinion & Analysis

Dec 30, 2009: The Question Israelis Don’t Want To Ask
Comments: 0 | Categories: Israel & Palestine , Middle East Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
Jerusalem Post columnist Larry Derfner raises an important question for Israelis in a December 30, 2009, post headlined “Rattling the Cage: A taboo question for Israelis.” He writes: There's a question we Israelis won't ask ourselves about the Palestinians, especially...

Dec 28, 2009: For Obama, Afghanistan ‘Adds Up to a Pretty Ominous Picture in 2010’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Obama's Foreign Policy , Opinion & Analysis
While Denis Staunton, foreign editor of The Irish Times, thinks “much disillusionment” with U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy “is born of unrealistic expectations,” Irish Times Foreign Affairs Correspondent Mary Fitzgerald thinks the U.S. military involvement in in Afghanistan and...

Dec 28, 2009: ‘The West Is Never Tired Of Hurling Threats’ at Muslim Nations
Comments: 0 | Categories: Opinion & Analysis
“Whether it is Pakistan, Iran or any other Muslim country, the West is never tired of hurling threats to them,” argues Ashraf Javed in the December 28, 2009, post in the Pakistan publication The Nation headlined “Brazen threats: An instrument...

Dec 27, 2009: Obama's Foreign Policy Decisions Loom Large Outside U.S.
Comments: 0 | Categories: Obama's Foreign Policy , Opinion & Analysis
“To those examining [U.S. President Barack] Obama's performance from outside the United States, it is understandably the foreign policy-related decisions which loom largest in his first-year record,” according to an editorial in the December 26, 2009, Sydney Morning Herald of...

Dec 27, 2009: Was Copenhagen Really a Disaster?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Opinion & Analysis
Freelance writer Mark Lynas’ December 22, 2009, post in the Guardian headlined “How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room” continues to reverberate as evidenced by expert commentary in the December 28, 2009 edition...

Dec 27, 2009: The French Government Must Get a Grip on Reality
Comments: 0 | Categories: European Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
“It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theatre in France,” asserts Palestinian-American journalist Ramzy Baroud, editor of Palestine Chronicle.com, in a post in the December 24-30, 2009 Al Ahram Weekly. “Unlike theatre,...

Dec 27, 2009: FPA Blogs Offers Insightful Year in Review Briefings
Comments: 0 | Categories: Foreign Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
The Foreign Policy Association (FPA), which has been around since 1918, produces some of the best foreign policy and world affairs blogs around. They are written by seasoned bloggers and experts such as Chicago’s Brandon Henander, who writes the War...

Nov 17, 2009: Is U.S.’ AfPak Policy a Mistake?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Opinion & Analysis
Shahid Javed Burki, an writer at the Pakistani publication Dawn.Com, states emphatically in a November 17, 2009, post that, “Pakistan is not Afghanistan. See “AfPak policy a mistake.” He contends: By coupling the two countries together and calling it ‘AfPak,’...

Nov 14, 2009: Recommended: ‘Fort Hood & the Perversion of Language…’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Media & Politics , Opinion & Analysis
Jason Adams, a resident of Hudson, Wisconsin, USA, posted the best analysis I’ve read to date on the news coverage surrounding Major Nidal Malik Hassan’s alleged killing and wounding of U.S. soldiers and civilians at Forth Hood Texas, USA, on...

Nov 10, 2009: Why Isn’t There Debate on Ending U.S. Role in the Afghan War?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Opinion & Analysis
“While [U.S] President Barack Obama reviews his strategy on Afghanistan, a perfect moment to send a strong unified message to end the war is slipping through our fingers,” wrote Sonali Kolhatkar, a Foreign Policy In Focus contributor and co-director of...