Missing in action: Obama is said to be silent on major issues such as the Middle East, Afghanistan and soaring debtAs Afghanistan Falters And The Middle East Burns, How Obama Is Missing In Action -- Max Hastings, The Daily Mail
Every time I come to Washington, I pay a ritual visit to the White House, to stand among the tourists gawping through the railings, fantasising about about what great affairs its tenant might be engaged upon.
On a brisk, grey, early spring morning last week, the wedding-cake residence of the most powerful man on earth looked pretty much the way it did in December 1941 when Roosevelt welcomed Churchill to create the Grand Alliance; in 1962 when Kennedy faced the Cuban missile confrontation; in 1972 when Nixon launched détente with China.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Japan earthquake and tsunami: Key facts and figures -- Washington Post
Why is there no looting in Japan? -- Ed West, The Telegraph
Amid catastrophe, Japan fights mayhem with order -- Chico Harlan, Washington Post
Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl -- William Tucker, Wall Street Journal
Nuclear Disaster 'Will Have Political Impact as Great as 9/11' -- Spiegel Online
Don't fall for the burning ring of fire -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy
The Japanese Disaster: What’s Next for Japan? For Us? -- Gordan Chang, Forbes
Fukushima Marks the End of the Nuclear Era -- Spiegel Online
Iran and Saudis' Countermove on Bahrain -- George Friedman, Real Clear World/Stratfor
Arms Race Sparked by China? -- Simon Roughneen, World Press
Tremors of Arab Youthquake Rumble East -- Richard Lourie, Moscow Times
Germany needs to resist the euro's sweet-smelling poison -- Hans-Olaf Henkel, The Guardian
Gates is turning America's defenses into a boutique military -- James Jay Carafano, Washington Examiner
Military 'diversity': more DC silliness -- Michael Walsh, New York Post
A final goodbye to Superpower America? -- Bernd Debusmann, Reuters
Commentaries, Opinions, And Analysis On Libya's Civil War
Will Libya be Obama’s Bay of Pigs? -- Ken Allard, Daily Caller
When Qaddafi Recaptures Benghazi… -- Michael Rubin, Commentary
Why Libya's Qaddafi is unlikely to push much further east -- Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor
How far – and how fast – will Qaddafi's forces push into Libya's 'liberated' east? -- Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor
Libyan revolutionaries make final stand for freedom -- Ahram Online
What do we do about Gaddafi? Let Arabs take him out -- Peter McKay, Daily Mail
Libya despatch: Force triumphs over Ras Lanuf's conscientious uprising -- Richard Spencer, The Telegraph
Gaddafi's Victories Highlight Rebels' Daunting Challenge -- Vivienne Walt, Time
Will Gaddafi reverse the tide of the Arab Spring? -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Fiddling While Libya Burns -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, New York Times