Featured Articles — November 23, 2008

November 23, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

One Surge Does Not Fit All By Donald Rumsfeld
THE surge in Iraq has been one of the most impressive military accomplishments in recent years. It has been so successful that the emerging consensus is that what may now be needed in Afghanistan is a similar surge of American forces. President-elect Barack Obama campaigned on his intention to do so, as did his former opponent, John McCain.

Chavez’s fraud game By Jon Thomson
The kinds and extent of fraud already being applied by the Venezuelan government to the crucial elections today are unprecedented. Having originally won election to the presidency in 1999 in a remarkably clean contest, Hugo Chavez has progressively moved the process to one of unmitigated electoral larceny.

A Path Out Of the Woods By Fareed Zakaria
We need China to see that its interests are aligned with America’s. If not, things could get very, very ugly.

Obama’s multipolar moment By A. Wess Mitchell
The United States today faces an unfamiliar and rapidly changing world landscape.

King Bloomberg By Fred Siegel
Mike is a Mayor Run Amok.

Our Hapless Automakers by Irwin M. Stelzer
The choice before Congress is bankruptcy now or bankruptcy later.

How to Stop the Pirates By Richard Halloran
Pirates armed with guns and grenades grabbed headlines around the world last week by hijacking the 320,000 ton Saudi Arabian tanker Sirius Star 450 miles off the coast of Somalia in East Africa and holding hostage the crew of 25. The piracy was bold as the captured ship was the largest ever taken and was seized the farthest from land.

Why the Geithner Pick Is Even Better Than You Think By Noam Scheiber
A few weeks ago, I wrote a profile of Tim Geithner that explored his relationship with Larry Summers during their eight years together at Treasury in the 1990s. The two men had formed such a productive partnership that I wondered if there were some way of reuniting them under Obama. Invariably the answer from sources was “no.” Both had achieved “principal” status (Geithner spent the last five years as president of the New York Fed, Summers was Bill Clinton’s final Treasury Secretary) and there was, alas, only one top job.

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