Featured Articles — September 14, 2008

September 14, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

The World Isn’t So Dark By Fareed Zakaria
Ever since WWII, America has tended to make its strategic missteps by exaggerating dangers.

Seeing through Obamanomics By Jeff Jacoby
ALL THROUGH the spring and summer, opinion polls tracked a growing confidence that Barack Obama could handle the economy better than John McCain. Just before the Democratic convention in August, Gallup had Obama leading McCain on the economy, 54-38 – a 16-point margin. But now Obama’s lead has nearly vanished. Gallup’s latest numbers show the candidates nearly tied. Just 48 percent say Obama would be more adept at superintending the economy; 45 percent choose McCain.

Democracy on the wane By Joshua Kurlantzick
In country after country, democratic reforms are in retreat. The surprising culprit: the middle class

Pencils And Politics By George Will
Who commands the millions of people involved in making a pencil? Who is in charge? Where is the pencil czar?

A Western State of Mind By Katherine Roberts
As Americans get to know Sarah Palin, they’re taking a crash course on life in the Last Frontier. There is her sport of moose hunting, for example.

He Came, He Cut Deals, He (May) Conquer By Linda Robinson
Iraq still divides Democrats and Republicans like no other issue, as the campaign rhetoric of both parties makes abundantly clear. Liberals and conservatives can now more or less agree that Iraq is a much, much safer country than it was 18 months ago. But each side is peddling its own story about Iraq’s extraordinary turnaround — and both are wrong.

Obama’s change could cost big bucks By Paul Gessing
A few tax cuts? Negligible effect. Bigger government? Bad idea.

The Real Russia Problem By Natan Sharansky
As the free world tries to formulate an effective response to Russia’s recent incursion into Georgia, the focus understandably remains on how to ensure the withdrawal of troops from Russia’s democratic southern neighbor. But policymakers might want to consider for a moment how we got to this point.

Envious of the U.S. election? Be careful what you wish for By David Frum
“It’s like sitting alone in a tiny attic apartment listening to a wonderful party roaring below.”

Character, not gender, counts in a crisis By Abraham Rabinovich
That 3 a.m. phone call that roused Hillary Clinton during her campaign has been forwarded to Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni whose opponents have picked up on the query, “Who do you want answering the phone?” Their answer is that Livni, and by inference any woman, should not be wakened by phone calls that may require tough military decisions.

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