Edition #67-6/2006
August 31, 2006

Dear Friend,

This new issue of American Editorial Review is based only on the last couple of weeks' editorials. The chosen articles are those that have the broadest implications for the future. My preferences go from top to bottom. At the end is an unpublished article I prepared early this month which expresses my own personal views.

Sincerely,

Arthur S. Obermayer

• George Soros, "Blinded by a concept", Boston Globe, August 31, 2006
  
• James Carroll, "War's reckoning", Boston Globe, August 28, 2006
  
• Trudy Rubin, "Shock and Awful", Philadelphia Inquirer, August 16, 2006
  
• H.D.S. Greenway, "Wars of great miscalculation", Boston Globe, August 22, 2006
  
• Joseph Nye, "In Mideast, the goal is 'smart power'", Boston Globe, August 19, 2006
  
• "Already Falling Behind", New York Times, August 17, 2006
  
• Scott Atran, "Is Hamas Ready to Deal?", New York Times, August 17, 2006
  
• Trudy Rubin, "Lebanon war makes U.S. plight even worse", Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2006
  
• "What war has wrought", Boston Globe, August 26, 2006
  
• Cragg Hines, "How we couldn't/wouldn't keep arms from Hezbollah", Houston Chronicle, August 15, 2006
  
• George Bisharat, "Unilateral action by Israel spawns violence in Gaza", Baltimore Sun, August 17, 2006
  
• Dennis Ross, "A Cease-Fire Reality: Dealing With Syria", Washington Post, August 17, 2006
  
• Lakhdar Brahimi, "Start Talking to Hezbollah", New York Times, August 18, 2006
  
• Arthur Obermayer, "Warfare in the 21st Century", unpublished