Foreign Policy News and Commentary Update December 10, 2007

FOREIGN AFFAIRS PANEL CALLS FOR OVERHAUL OF STATE DEPT. - GLENN KESSLER (WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 9):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801647_pf.html

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND THE WAR ON TERROR: PENTAGON HEAD GATES WANTS CIVILIAN HELP - AMY ZALMAN (ABOUT.COM TERRORISM ISSUES, DECEMBER 3): http://terrorism.about.com/od/globalwaronterror/a/CivilianExperts.htm?r=94

OFF THE CUFF: PART 1.5 OF WHAT THE SECDEF DIDN'T SAY (MOUNTAINRUNNER BLOG, DECEMBER 9): http://mountainrunner.us/2007/12/off_the_cuff_part_15_of_what_t.html
IS RUDY RUNNING FOR EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY STANDARD, OR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? - JUSTIN LOGAN (CATO@LIBERTY, NOVEMBER 27):
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/11/27/is-rudy-running-for-editor-of-the-weekly-standard-or-president-of-the-united-states/

SAUDIS GIVE BIG TO U.S. COLLEGES - JULIA DUIN (WASHINGTON TIMES, DECEMBER 10): Some call the Saudi gift Arab generosity and gratitude for the years American universities have educated the elite of the Arab world. Others say the sheer size of the donations amounts to buying influence and creating bastions of noncritical pro-Islamic scholarship within academia.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/SPECIAL/112100027/1001&template=printart

IRAQ'S 'BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND' - WALTER PINCUS (WASHINGTON POST,
DECEMBER 10): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/09/AR2007120901181_pf.html

MAKING PEACE WITH PIECES - THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 9):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/opinion/09friedman.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

WHAT WE DIDN'T LEARN FROM THE HUNT FOR IRAQ'S PHANTOM ARSENAL: THE GOOD NEWS: WE'RE NOT GOING TO WAR WITH IRAN. THE BAD NEWS: WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE THINKING ? ARTHUR KELLER (WASHINGTON POST, DECEMBER 9)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701619_pf.html

THE NEW IRAQ - OLIVER NORTH (WASHINGTON TIMES, DECEMBER 9): http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/COMMENTARY06/112090010/1012&template=printart

THE LIMITS OF INTELLIGENCE - PETER HOEKSTRA AND JANE HARMAN (WALL STREET JOURNAL, DECEMBER 10): Though the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) may be taken as positive news, Iran clearly remains dangerous.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119724593112918777.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

MAKING HISTORY - ARIEL COHEN (WASHINGTON TIMES, DECEMBER 10): If the U.S. is sidelined on Iran, America's reputation from Warsaw and Prague to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia can easily be undermined.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/COMMENTARY/112100008/1012&template=printart

WHITEWASHING IRANIAN NUKES ? EDITORIAL (WASHINGTON TIMES, DECEMBER 10): The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, asserting that that Tehran probably shut down its covert nuclear weapons program in 2003, has become a football to kick around in Washington. The new estimate raises more questions than it answers.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/EDITORIAL/112100001/1013&template=printart

HE DELIVERS. THAT'S WHY THEY LIKE HIM - BORIS JORDAN (WASHINGTON POST, DECEMBER 9): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701617.html

DELAY, OBSTRUCTION AND DARFUR - EDITORIAL (NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 10): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/opinion/10mon1.html?n=Top/Opinion/Editorials%20and%20Op-Ed/Editorials&pagewanted=print

IN ARROGANT DEFENSE OF TORTURE ? EDITORIAL (NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 9): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/opinion/09sun2.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

AFTER GUANTANAMO, 'REINTEGRATION' FOR SAUDIS - JOSH WHITE AND ROBIN WRIGHT (WASHINGTON POST, DECEMBER 10): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/09/AR2007120901411_pf.html

GUANTANAMO DETAINEES FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE: AS THE NUMBER OF PRISONERS DWINDLES, MANY ARE LEFT IN DIPLOMATIC LIMBO - CAROL J. WILLIAMS (LOS ANGELES TIMES, DECEMBER 9)
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/topofthetimes/world/la-fg-repatriate9dec09,1,231443.story

OBAMA'S AMERICAN IDEA - ROGER COHEN (NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 10): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/opinion/10cohen.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

REAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE - ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER (NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 7): http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/real-action-on-climate-change/index.html?ref=opinion