The Arab Revolution Swells -- Washington Post Editorial
THREE QUESTIONS have driven discussion of the ongoing Arab revolt and how the United States should respond to it. Can it spread to all of the Arab states, including seemingly stable kingdoms, such as Saudi Arabia, and the most repressive police states, such as Syria? Can it be stopped with violence by regimes more ruthless than those of Tunisia and Egypt? And can entrenched power structures succeed in limiting the amount of change, through bribes or negotiation?
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Yes, It Could Happen Here: Why Saudi Arabia is ripe for revolution. -- Madawi Al-Rasheed, Foreign Policy
Saudi Arabia's subtle protests are serious -- Brian Whitikar, The Guardian
Cautious Optimism Regarding the Arab Revolts, from an Unlikely Source -- Peter Wehner, Commentary
Beleaguered Yemeni leader has shown staying power -- Jeffrey Fleishman and Haley Sweetland Edwards, Los Angeles Times
China’s Highly Unequal Economy -- Victor Shih, The Diplomat
Never Fight a Land War in Asia -- George Friedman, Real Clear World/Stratfor
Wrong choice in Kosovo -- Gregory Clark, Japan Times
Preparing for War in Australia? -- Randall Hoven, American Thinker
America Should Default -- Claude Sandroff, American Thinker
Mideast turmoil is good news for Alberta -- Gillian Steward, Toronto Star
Conservatives shouldn't be so surprised by freedom -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post
Why Qaddafi can no longer terrorize Libyans -- Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor
Are sanctions enough? -- Al Jazeera
ANALYSIS-Foreign intervention unlikely unless Libya worsens -- Reuters
Q+A: How U.S. financial sanctions on Libya might work -- Reuters
How Qaddafi Reshaped Africa -- Howard French, The Atlantic