Roundup: Media's Take

Frank Browning: DSK: American Shame, French Surveillance

Frank Browning is a longtime correspondent and contributor to NPR, resident of France, and co-author of The American Way of Crime.

Larry P. Goodson: Why Pakistan Will Never Break with its Islamist Allies

Larry P. Goodson is a Professor of Middle East Studies at the U.S. Army War College and author of the forthcoming book, Pakistan: Understanding the Dark Side of the Moon, to be published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.

Shira Herzog: In this Mideast dance, the key steps are 1948 and 1967

Shira Herzog is executive vice-president of the Calgary-based Kahanoff Foundation and a writer on Israeli affairs. It’s been a packed week with more to come for those who watch the Middle East: U.S. envoy George Mitchell resigned; anti-Israel demonstrations by Palestinians in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza turned deadly; Jordan’s King Abdullah was at the White House; U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the Middle East on Thursday and meets Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday.

Matthew Algeo: In 2012, the tea party wants ... another Grover Cleveland

Matthew Algeo is the author of “The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth.”

Brink Lindsey: Why the Era of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll is About to Go Global

Brink Lindsey is a senior scholar in research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the author of "The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture."

Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway: Death of the War Powers Act?

Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway are professors of law and political science at Yale. This week, the War Powers Act confronts its moment of truth. Friday will mark the 60th day since President Obama told Congress of his Libyan campaign.

Bret Stephens: Israel Will Never Have Peace

Mr. Stephens writes the Journal's "Global View" column on foreign affairs.No doubt it is true, as the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Sunday, that among the Palestinian protesters seeking to force their way into Israel there were some with humbler aims than reclaiming "historic Palestine.""We've crossed the border in order to stay with our families, away from all the killing in Syria," the paper reported one of the infiltrators as saying. "We ask the powers that be in Israel to help us stay and not send us back."

Eamon Gilmore and William Hague: Ireland and Britain ... Royal Reconciliation

Eamon Gilmore is Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Deputy Prime Minister.

James Traub: Afghanistan Is Looking Like Vietnam

James Traub is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of, most recently, The Freedom Agenda. "Terms of Engagement," his column for ForeignPolicy.com, runs weekly.

Greg Sheridan: West Replicates Soviet War in Afghanistan

Greg Sheridan is the foreign editor of The Australian.

Peter Baker: Comparisons in chief

 At various points in the last few years, Mr. Obama has been cast as the inheritor of John F. Kennedy’s Camelot, the second coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt and a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. When he has gotten into trouble, he has become another Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.

George F. Will: History Lessons for Obama and Other Liberals

George F. Will is a columnist for the WaPo

Karl Rove: Remembering the First Blow Against al Qaeda

Mr. Rove is the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.It was a fitting end: The brutal terrorist who aspired to create an Islamic caliphate that stretched from the Straits of Malacca to Gibraltar was found hiding in a walled compound, isolated and reduced to communicating in fitful spurts by courier. It was the identity of a courier—patiently traced by intelligence professionals for four years—that eventually brought Navy SEALs to Osama bin Laden's doorstep.

John B. Judis: The Most Radical Thing the Obama Administration Has Done

John B. Judis is a senior editor at The New Republic.

Adam Elkus: From Roman Legions to Navy SEALs: Military Raiding and its Discontents

Adam Elkus is an analyst focusing on security and international politics. He blogs at Rethinking Security.

Bret Stephens: From Chomsky to bin Laden

Mr. Stephens writes the Journal's "Global View" column on foreign affairs.

Andy Kroll: How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker

Andy Kroll is a reporter in the D.C. bureau of Mother Jones magazine and an associate editor at TomDispatch. The son of two teachers, he grew up in a firmly -- and happily -- middle-class household. His email is andykroll (at) motherjones (dot) com.

Malou Innocent: How Bush Lost bin Laden

Malou Innocent is a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute and blogs for The Skeptics at The National Interest.

Steve Kornacki: Mike Huckabee's Favorite Holocaust Anecdote

Steve Kornacki is Salon's news editor. Reach him by email at SKornacki@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @SteveKornacki

Matthew Alexander: Tortured Logic ... We didn't need to waterboard anyone to get OBL

Matthew Alexander is a former senior military interrogator who conducted or supervised more than 1,300 interrogations in Iraq. His latest book is Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious Al Qaeda Terrorist. Alexander is currently a fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at the University of California-Los Angeles.