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Outside View: The Chicago NATO summit -- Much ado about?

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By HARLAN ULLMAN
UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- NATO is crucial to the security and stability of its members. If not now, sometime soon, that case must be made otherwise NATO risks becoming a relic.

Outside View: Fanatical Islam pits brother against brother

Tue, 15 May 2012 06:33:00 -0400

By JAMES ZUMWALT
UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., May 15 (UPI) -- There is a chilling message to be taken from such a mindset that numbs the soul to in which one brother guiltlessly kills another who willingly accepts death.

Walker's World: Europe's voters revolt

Mon, 14 May 2012 07:27:07 -0400

By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor Emeritus
MUNICH, Germany, May 14 (UPI) -- The anti-austerity revolt of European voters continued when electors in a key German province gave Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats their lowest vote since 1948.

Outside View: Wild and crazy guys

Fri, 11 May 2012 06:00:00 -0400

By MORGAN STRONG
UPI Outside View Commentator
BRICK, N.J., May 11 (UPI) -- Why do Americans continue to be deluded into believing great wealth makes no difference in how a president is to govern?

Commentary: 'Vietghanistan': Realism and reality

Thu, 10 May 2012 06:09:12 -0400

By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- Powerful voices are now suggesting it’s incumbent on the United States to put an end to 15 months of civil war in Syria.

Outside View: Fix the trade deficit to end jobs drought

Wed, 09 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By PETER MORICI
UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. trade deficit -- expected to have been $49.5 billion in March -- is a sign that the recovery f the U.S. economy has been too slow.

Outside View: Needed now: An intellectual revolution in strategic thinking

Wed, 09 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By HARLAN ULLMAN
UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- If an intellectual revolution regarding defense is to be wrought, it must come from within. But who will listen? And who will lead?

Outside View: Why FATCA should be repealed

Tue, 08 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By JAMES GEORGE JATRAS
UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- The author says that the costs of the “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act” may soon become fully apparent and the result will be most unwelcome.

Outside View: Understanding Egypt's sexual intercourse law

Tue, 08 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By JAMES. G. ZUMWALT
UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., May 8 (UPI) -- If, as the White House suggests, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood represents moderate Islam and if it is the most influential component within their Parliament, a macabre draft law proposed by some members should send us a clear message.

Outside View: What is the right decision for Iranian dissidents?

Mon, 07 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By KENT OLSSON
UPI Outside View Commentator
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 7 (UPI) -- While the governments of Iraq and Iran grow closer and closer politically, several thousand Iranian dissidents in Iraq grow more fearful of their futures. And with good cause.

Walker's World: After me, the deluge

Mon, 07 May 2012 05:09:49 -0400

By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor Emeritus
STRASBOURG, France, May 7 (UPI) -- Nicolas Sarkozy has narrowly lost the Presidency after a single term, but his Socialist party successor, Francis Hollande, has not won a mandate.

Outside View: Unemployment falls as discouraged Americans quit looking for work

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:12:18 -0400

By PETER MORICI
UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April -- much less than expected and not enough to keep up with natural population growth. The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent because another 522,000 adults quit looking for work and are no longer counted.

Outside View: Only modest jobs growth as U.S. economy weakens

Thu, 03 May 2012 06:47:37 -0400

By PETER MORICI
UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 3 (UPI) -- The most effective program to cut the U.S. unemployment rate has been to convince people they don’t want or need a job as 80 percent of the recent reduction is from people stopping their search for work.

Commentary: End and beginning of war

Thu, 03 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, May 3 (UPI) -- President Obama’s plan for extending U.S. support to Afghanistan another 10 years after the 2014 troop withdrawal may not be necessary.

Outside View: What went wrong; what might go right?

Wed, 02 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By HARLAN ULLMAN
UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- The critical question determining our future is whether broken government will obstruct, reinforce or stay out of the way of creative processes that could reverse what has gone wrong.

Outside View: Why Johnny can’t pay his student loans

Tue, 01 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By PETER MORICI
UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 1 (UPI) -- Many college graduates are trapped in positions that don't earn them enough money to repay their college loans -- the blame for that belongs in several laps.

Outside View: The fog of war and poor battlefield judgment

Tue, 01 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By JAMES ZUMWALT
UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., May 1 (UPI) -- Instead of blaming U.S. warriors for being solely responsible for questionable behavior, U.S. leaders need do some soul-searching as to what -- and who -- put the fighters in those situations.

Walker's World: France, growth and Europe

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:18:17 -0400

By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, April 30 (UPI) -- The French presidential election has taken on a broader meaning with France offering a growth-oriented alternative to the German-led politics of austerity.

Outside View: First quarter GDP advances 2.2 percent, economy slowing

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:32:57 -0400

By PETER MORICI
UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. economy grew at a 2.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter for 2012, a figure that suggests the economy is slowing.

Outside View: A desperate search for mediocrity

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By MORGAN STRONG
UPI Outside View Commentator
BRICK, N.J., April 27 (UPI) -- Perhaps the election for U.S. president should include someone more like the general masses -- and including humility in the mix.

Outside View: Saving Europe from collapse

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:29:08 -0400

By PETER MORICI
UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 26 (UPI) -- Governments may soon fall in France and Holland and are quickly losing legitimacy elsewhere in Europe because austerity programs and a common currency risk throwing the continent into an endless recession.

Commentary: Global house of cards

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:37:46 -0400

By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) -- "Social Media for Dummies" is a guide "to ease busy executives and anyone with a real job into the insanely overhyped world of social media." This unravels the mystery that triggers the production of a new Broadway musical – and the bailout of bailouts.

Outside View: Wag the summit!

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By HARLAN ULLMAN
UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) -- "Wag The Dog" was a terrific movie satire about a political operative who manufactured a tiny war to cover up a damning presidential indiscretion. How about a sequel?

Outside View: BDS and the AFSC

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:30:00 -0400

By ASAF ROMIROWSKY and ALEXANDER JOFFE
UPI Outside View Commentator
PHILADELPHIA, April 24 (UPI) -- The authors argue that when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the impression most people have of the "Quakerly way" is wrong.

Walker's World: France's next vote

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:48:25 -0400

By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, April 24 (UPI) -- After markets showed distaste for the inconclusive first round of French elections, the question turns to who will win the second -- and calm -- those markets.