Новости за 27.03.2016

Sanger & Haberman, NYT
In Mr. Trump’s worldview, the United States has become a diluted power, and the main mechanism by which he would re-establish its central role in the world is economic bargaining. He approached almost every current international conflict through the prism of a negotiation, even when he was imprecise about the strategic goals he sought. He again faulted the Obama administration’s handling of the negotiations with Iran last year — “It would have been so much better if... Читать дальше...

Terry Glavin, National Post
Thanks to the outsized profile of the Irish-American tribes, Canada’s part in the bigger story that situates Easter 1916 in its pivotal chapter tends to get completely overlooked. Canada was the model Irish nationalists had been fighting for throughout the struggle for Home Rule from the 1870s right up to 1916.

Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
At the moment, Europe faces three crises. One is a crisis of security and extremism, as we witnessed on Tuesday in the horrors inflicted on Brussels. The second is a crisis of human movement – hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees entering the continent from the south – and a debate over the means by which to manage them. And the third is a political crisis in many countries, in which the conventional parties of centre-left and centre-right are being challenged by more extreme and intolerant parties.

Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
One hundred years ago, the Irish people fought for independence from the British. But now bygones are bygones: we have too much in common to quarrel.

David Scheffer, Project Syndicate
The lesson that politicians in Europe, the US, and elsewhere should draw from the judgment is that they are playing with fire in seeking electoral advantage by attacking Muslims. As events in Bosnia in the 1990s and in Syria and Iraq today so tragically demonstrate, the flames they are fanning could easily become a conflagration.

J. Jacoby, Globe
Muslim communities are not inherently predisposed to violence. The presence of a sizable Muslim population in a non-Muslim-majority country does not inevitably presage jihadist bloodshed or demands for the imposition of sharia. It is true that some 650,000 Muslims live in Belgium, but five times as many — 3.3 million — live in the United States. Why hasn’t America become a hotbed of Islamic extremism? Why aren’t American Muslims by the thousands flocking to fight for ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations? Читать дальше...

Bruce Stokes, Yale Global
To date, the campaign debate has been dominated by multiple themes that could ultimately impact people outside the United States – trade, immigration and terrorism, to name just a few. Americans’ attitudes on these issues could well influence the outcome in November. And the positions the candidates take on these issues may foreshadow, or constrain, what policies the next US president will pursue. Moreover, the mood of the electorate may influence votes in Congressional... Читать дальше...

Peter Popham, The Independent
Plenty of Burmese Buddhists are extremely prejudiced against Muslims. But is Aung San Suu Kyi? After a torrid interview with Mishal Husain for the Today programme, she was reportedly heard to say angrily, “No-one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim.” I was told this by a reliable source and quoted it in my new book, The Lady and the Generals. What does it tell us about Suu Kyi’s views?

Sami Nader, Al-Monitor
Hezbollah's actions are isolating Lebanon from the Arab states and exacerbating the country's already fractured and paralyzed politics.

Timothy William Waters, LA Times
Karadzic's conviction comes one week after the United States officially declared that the Islamic State is committing genocide in Iraq. Reflecting current fashions in thinking about law and conflict, Secretary of State John F. Kerry reflexively called for official investigations and trials, but no change in policy. If this week's judgment — more than 20 years after the end of Bosnia's war — is any indication, that's the wrong focus, especially for a genocide that is still going on.

Martin Chulov, The Guardian
Isis now contends that geography was a means to its ultimate ends, which were always to spread its influence far and wide. The group’s most senior leaders, among them the still recuperating Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, are implacably ideological, convinced of their role as custodians of an ultra-radical reading of Islamic teachings and compelled to fight anyone who does not submit to their world view.