Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 19, 2014

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wps-swtXQAM" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ukraine Suffers 'Black Day' That Will Never Be Forgotten -- Ian Traynor and Harriet Salem, The Guardian</b></span></div><br />Assault on Independence Square in Kiev left at least 26 people dead, 10 of them police officers<br /><br />Beneath the gilded column known as Stella that towers over Kiev's Independence Square, the charred, black remains of Ukraine's battlefield bore witness to the saddest, grimmest 36 hours in the young country's history.<br /><br />On Tuesday morning, the public space was an encampment of tents and soup kitchens occupied mainly by youthful and peaceful protesters sick to the back teeth of the corruption, cronyism and misrule of their president.<br /><br />By Wednesday afternoon, the area was occupied by ranks of interior ministry troops, special "Berkut" security forces, and common police in full body armour. They lined up five-deep on a smoking wasteland of burned out buses, smouldering fires, collapsed sodden tents, almost three months of thriving protest ruthlessly reduced to shards of timber and rubble.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/19/ukraine-black-day-protest-kiev">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/19/world/europe/ukraine-protests/">'Truce' declared in bloodied Ukraine, but will it last?</a> -- Phil Black. Michael Pearson and Victoria Butenko, CNN<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/19/ukraine-revolutionary-situation-east-west-violence">Ukraine is now in a potentially revolutionary situation </a>-- Mary Dejevsky, The Guardian<br /><br /><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2014/0219/Answering-Ukraine-s-bullets">Answering Ukraine's bullets</a> -- Christian Science Monitor editorial<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-regional-spymasters-make-tactical-changes-to-bolster-syrian-moderates/2014/02/18/5d69596c-98f0-11e3-b931-0204122c514b_story.html">On Syria, a spymasters’ conclave</a> -- David Ignatius, Washington Post<br /><br /><a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-left/021814-690333-us-follows-cowardly-lion-policy-in-syria.htm">Obama Speaks Loudly In Syria, But Carries A Small Stick</a> -- Ruchard Cohen, IBD Editorial<br /><br /><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/syria-iraq-lebanon-the-new-afpak-9897">Syria, Iraq, Lebanon: The New AfPak</a> -- Anno Bunnik, National Interest<br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303945704579391290674357858?">Time for the 'Never Agains' on North Korea</a> -- Nicholas Eberstadt, Wall Street Journal<br /><br /><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/americas-failing-china-paradigm-9901">America's Failing China Paradigm</a> -- Gordon G. Chang, National Interest<br /><br /><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/inside-story/Insiders/2014/2/18/can-france-and-theafricanunionbringpeacetocentralafricanrepublic.html">Can France and the African Union bring peace to the CAR?</a> -- Janet Weinstein, Al Jazeera <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/18/218571/in-bosnia-economy-still-struggling.html">In Bosnia, economy still struggling with fallout of civil war</a> -- Phil Cain, McClatchy Foreign Staff<br /><br /><a href="http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/02/19/argentinas_downward_spiral.html">Argentina's Downward Spiral </a>-- Jaime Daremblum, Real Clear World<br /><br /><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/02/18/congress-is-loving-the-army-to-death/#more-841854">Congress Is Loving the Army to Death</a> -- Max Boot, Commentary<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2014/02/18/our-decadent-elites/">Our Decadent Elites </a>-- Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 19, 2014

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