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Obama has failed to take on the fanatics
23 August 2010
In the Financial Times, Clive Crook says that Barack Obama has missed an opportunity to take on the fanatics by defending only the legality of the "Ground Zero mosque", not its wisdom. Elsewhere, in the Times, Malcolm Turnbull writes that the Australian Labor Party has been punished for its lack of conviction and dismal campaign. In British politics, the Guardian'sJackie Ashley criticises the Labour leadership candidates for turning the election into a competition about who can be nastiest to the Liberal Democrats. In the Independent, Donald Macintyre says that the outcome of the upcoming talks between Israel and Palestine will depend on whether Binyamin Netanyahu abandons opportunism for a real place in history. And finally, in the Wall Street Journal, Mary O'Grady argues that rising street crime in Venezuela shows the failure of Hugo Chavez's revolution.
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