Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.OpinionSource is dedicated to bringing you national and world opinionHow to stop worrying and start loving (cheap) nuclear power- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Indian nuclear power has been constrained by more than just fuel. Capital has been lacking because nuclear energy is cheap over time but initial costs are high. Then there's technology. Thanks to sanctions, Indian engineers have had to develop expensive home-bred replacements. The nuclear deal will lift all these barriers, says Chaudhuri. Moreover, history shows a country can ramp up nuclear production once it gets the right policies and politics in...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26824&password=121614390417... Keeping the Reserve in Conservation- (Found July 23, 2008 ) There is a squeeze on American cropland. It is understandable that the Department of Agriculture recently authorized the release, under certain conditions, of some 24 million acres of land set aside in the Conservation Reserve Program for grazing cattle and growing hay. Understandable, but still the wrong decision. The farmers certainly deserve sympathy, but the potential environmental damage caused by taking these lands out of conservation is far too...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26834&password=121618955932... Osama bin Laden, a purveyor of poetic terrorism- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Haykel asserts that Bin Laden's appeal is in his poetic expression, which has become the language of the Al-Qaeda movement. Bin Laden contrasts the apathy of moderate Muslims with the commitment and manly virtues of his own followers. The core of his appeal is not violence, but rather the ability to articulate the profound sense of injustice and humiliation that many Arabs and Muslims feel today.http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26938&password=121664154615... Palestinian hope withers, Hizb al-Tahrir flourishes- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Risheq claims that the failure of the Palestinian liberation movement has not benefited the Hamas or Islamic Jihad as much as it has benefited more extreme groups like the Hizb al-Tahrir. As it is a true Islamist movement and derives its stands from the writings of Qutb and Mawdudi, it is opposed to a separate Palestinian state, which Israel finds convenient.http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26937&password=121664127134... Politics and price of oil- (Found July 23, 2008 ) The recently proposed remedial measures of the US to reduce the oil price hike appear nonsensical, says Dewan. President Bush has proposed the withdrawal of the 1990 federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling. But the authorities revealed that even if oil drilling tapped an estimated 18 billion barrels under coastal waters that are currently off-limits, oil prices wouldn't see any drop until 2030. Economists dismiss all this presidential campaign...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26821&password=121613155081... America's air force misses the target- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Gapper writes that the US Air Force is rightly proud of the new F-22, the world's most advanced and expensive fighter jet. However, the F-22 will end up being a costly mistake if the US does not allow its allies to buy and fly them as well. The USAF is only being allowed to buy less than half of the 381 aircraft it originally wanted to purchase because the F-22, having being designed to help the US achieve total air dominance in more traditional...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26853&password=121628663081... Carbon emitters' free ride is about to end- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Parker writes that we could soon see a dramatic rise in the price of European carbon allowance permits (EUAs). There is a severe imbalance in the level of supply and demand for EUAs and it is only a matter of time before this is recognized by the market. Carbon emitters have had a free ride for too long, and the repricing of carbon will mark the beginning of externalities at last being priced into the cost of production. This will drive the search for...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26854&password=121628778960... A message from Obama for those infuriating Europeans- (Found July 23, 2008 ) With Barack Obama currently wowing European leaders and citizens alike, Stephens discusses what the US and Europe must do to get the most from their relationship. The all-action Americans often get frustrated at the amount of talking that comes from Europe. Stephens says this is understandable and that Europeans should acknowledge that normative power has its limits. However, as Europeans spent the first half of the twentieth century killing each other..http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26871&password=121637493681... Possible Changes Signal Improvement In Iraq- (Found July 23, 2008 ) The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September. The author says this withdrawal is possible because of the successful policies of the Bush Administration, not their failure. Baghdad is sufficiently pacified for the Iraqi forces to take over many of the duties that had formerly been handled by Americans and to eliminate some of the extreme security measures that had been necessary up to..http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26797&password=121603649229... Karadzic Captured in Serbia- (Found July 23, 2008 ) After nearly 13 years on the run, Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was arrested this evening in a Belgrade suburb and turned over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Serbia has been eager to be reincorporated into the larger European community and eventually join the EU. Karadzic's arrest is an important step in that direction and comes just two weeks after a pro-EU government came to power in Serbia.http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26954&password=121672105643... |