Syria's leader still has ways out of his fix Simon Tisdall: Bashar Assad is in a box from which he cannot escape, western diplomats say. But while Syria's president is no Houdini, rumours of his imminent political demise appear exaggerated.
Slate Now They Tell Us: Why didn't Bush's foreign-policy critics speak out a year ago? Fred Kaplan
No Absence of Mehlis: Syria faces the music over Rafik Hariri's assassination. Michael Young
Weekly Standard Blueprint for Victory For democracy to thrive in Iraq, the Sunnis must know they are defeated. by Frederick W. Kagan
WSJ The Nuclear Taboo Can we make it through another half dozen decades without nuclear weapons exploded in anger? By THOMAS C. SCHELLING
H2New York Times Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Lawyers Report Notes of a previously undisclosed conversation between the vice president and his chief of staff appear to differ from I. Lewis Libby's federal grand jury testimony
Editorial The U.N. Route for Syria The Security Council should increase international pressure on Syria to cooperate more fully with the Rafik Hariri murder investigation
FT COMMENT & ANALYSIS: American machismo is not the answer As a framework for analysing today’s terrorist threat, the Bush-Cheney logic is woefully incomplete. And it risks leading the US administration down the wrong path in Iraq, write Philip Gordon and Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution
Asia Times The ball is now in Syria's court Syrian commentators and officials are crying foul over the UN-sanctioned report that points to a Syrian connection in the assassination in Lebanon of the former premier, Rafik Hariri. It's all political, they claim, and Syria fits perfectly into the culprit's cage because it is no longer an internationally strong country. This is all true. But Syria must do more than merely complain, and its watchwords should be "cooperation" and "wisdom". - Sami Moubayed A Syriajevo in the making? The Syrian assassination affair is a diversion, not in the same category as the Sarajevo assassination that sparked World War I. The real focus is Iran, where, it seems, a temporary trade-off has been reached: Washington will refrain from military action to forestall Iranian nuclear arms development, while Tehran will refrain from disrupting the US's constitutional Potemkin Village in Iraq. Still, the clock ticks ... H4 New York Times Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Lawyers Report Notes of a previously undisclosed conversation between the vice president and his chief of staff appear to differ from I. Lewis Libby's federal grand jury testimony
Editorial The U.N. Route for Syria The Security Council should increase international pressure on Syria to cooperate more fully with the Rafik Hariri murder investigation.
Editorial White House Shocker Ben Bernanke will have a tough job filling Alan Greenspan's shoes. But he is as close to the perfect choice as President Bush could have made.
Kristof Hurricane Fitzgerald Approaches the White House It was wrong for prosecutors to cook up borderline indictments during the Clinton administration, and it would be just as wrong now in the C.I.A. leak case.
Tierney And Your Point Is? No one deserves to go to jail for leaking to reporters accurate information without criminal intent.
H5 Washington Post Presidents Past Inspire Bush's Damage Control To deal with struggling presidency, Bush advisers develop strategy to confront war while focusing on other areas such as economic policies.
What Rice Can't See By Eugene Robinson, How did Condoleezza Rice come to a worldview so radically different from that of most black Americans? Is she blind, is she in denial, is she confused, or what?
It Wasn't Just Miller's Story By Robert Kagan, The Judith Miller-Valerie Plame-Scooter Libby imbroglio is being reduced to a simple narrative about the origins of the Iraq war. Miller, the story goes, was an anti-Saddam Hussein, weapons-of-mass-destruction-hunting zealot and was either an eager participant or an unwitting dupe in a campaign by...
Master of Minimalism By George F. Will, During his tenure as Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan has managed to keep inflation down even in circumstances in which it would ordinarily rise. His successor should take heed.
Ceding Idealism to the GOP By Richard Cohen, About six months after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, George H.W. Bush's national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, went to Beijing and met with China's "paramount leader," Deng Xiaoping. Scowcroft said he communicated the president's unhappiness over the massacre, to which Deng essentially...
Editorial After Alan Greenspan YESTERDAY'S BIG economic story was the lack of a story: Confronted with the nomination of a new Federal Reserve chairman, financial markets didn't panic. That is a tribute to President Bush's selection, Ben S. Bernanke, who (on the likely assumption that he is confirmed) will have to fill some of...
Syria's leader still has ways out of his fix Simon Tisdall: Bashar Assad is in a box from which he cannot escape, western diplomats say. But while Syria's president is no Houdini, rumours of his imminent political demise appear exaggerated.
H8 Asia Times The ball is now in Syria's court Syrian commentators and officials are crying foul over the UN-sanctioned report that points to a Syrian connection in the assassination in Lebanon of the former premier, Rafik Hariri. It's all political, they claim, and Syria fits perfectly into the culprit's cage because it is no longer an internationally strong country. This is all true. But Syria must do more than merely complain, and its watchwords should be "cooperation" and "wisdom". - Sami Moubayed A Syriajevo in the making? The Syrian assassination affair is a diversion, not in the same category as the Sarajevo assassination that sparked World War I. The real focus is Iran, where, it seems, a temporary trade-off has been reached: Washington will refrain from military action to forestall Iranian nuclear arms development, while Tehran will refrain from disrupting the US's constitutional Potemkin Village in Iraq. Still, the clock ticks ...
Europe needs to embrace reform By ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN The European Union's heads of state and government need to make the right choices in response to globalization — the main challenge for Europe in the years ahead.
Koizumi's dangerous promise By BRAD GLOSSERMAN / IHTTokyo's readiness to to stoke tensions by ignoring the concerns of its neighbors undermine its efforts to play a leading role in the region.
WSJ The Nuclear Taboo Can we make it through another half dozen decades without nuclear weapons exploded in anger? By THOMAS C. SCHELLING
Google Me! Publishers and authors should thank Google for waking them from their slumbers. By CAMERON STRACHER
China Defines 'Democracy' When the Chinese Communist Party issues a white paper on the evolution of democracy, it is talking about anything but.
The Economist Bernanke's turn to steer America's economy Bernanke has big shoes to fill—and plenty of economic challenges to address Foreign Policy What Does Bernanke Believe? All eyes are on Ben Bernanke, the president's pick to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve. So what is the new chief's economic philosophy? In an article for FP, Bernanke reveals his ideal rate of inflation, the hidden dangers of falling prices, and the proper role of the U.S. central bank. By Ben S. Bernanke Seven Questions: What Awaits Ben Bernanke Compared to hurricanes and Middle East turmoil, the state of the economy seems downright placid. But Morgan Stanley Chief Economist Stephen S. Roach warns that Ben Bernanke will have his hands full with a possible recession, high energy prices, and Washington’s refusal to raise the taxes needed to fight wars Weekly Standard Due Date Greenspan's era comes to an end and the inflation question begins to be answered. by Irwin M. Stelzer
H14 Financial Times Leader Moment of truth A year ago Bashar al-Assad was the master of Lebanon. Acting against Lebanese popular will and defying a United Nations resolution, he ordered a three-year extension...
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: American machismo is not the answer As a framework for analysing today’s terrorist threat, the Bush-Cheney logic is woefully incomplete. And it risks leading the US administration down the wrong path in Iraq, write Philip Gordon and Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution
A good choice to run the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke was high on the very short list of candidates with claim to be capable of stepping into the giant shoes of Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal...
Economic adviser in line to replace GreenspanGeorge W. Bush nominated Ben Bernanke, a leading monetary policy expert and Wall Street's favoured candidate, to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
US and France press Damascus over Hariri The US and France presented a joint front against Syria, demanding Damascus tell the truth over its alleged involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
Al-Jazeera's global aims boost Qatar's influence
COMMENT: China's hi-tech success is not patently obvious Warning should be heeded by those western observers who, dazzled by China’s rise in basic manufacturing, breathlessly proclaim it is destined to become a global leader in science and technological innovation
COMMENT: Europe is starving innovation in developing nations Europe, not content with blocking genetically modified agricultural exports from Africa, seeks to introduce restrictive patent requirements for biotechnology, writes Susan Kling Finston of the US’s Institute for Policy Innovation H15 Los Angeles Times The White House cabal By Lawrence B. Wilkerson IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Editorial Coming U.N. attractions A UNITED NATIONS AGENCY smacked Hollywood last week with a rolled-up parchment, adopting a "cultural diversity" convention that says countries may subsidize or shelter their local creative industries. To the U.S. government — joined only by Israel in voting against the document — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's convention was thinly veiled protectionism. To the 148 countries that voted in favor, it was a rebuke of the American entertainment industry and its aggressive promotions overseas.
A fiscal resemblance TALK ABOUT A TOUGH ACT to follow: Acclaimed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is retiring in January after nearly two decades of keeping inflation at bay without derailing the country's growing economy.
In praise of the noncoms By Robert D. Kaplan Commissioned officers may give the orders, but in war it's the poorly paid, blue-collar sergeants and corporals who get things done.
KnightRidder Two Republicans harshly criticize Bush foreign policy The criticisms are searing: Foreign policy is run by a secretive "cabal" headed by VP Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's dream of spreading democracy around the Middle East is misguided. Those, however, are the sentiments of two leading Republicans, both associated with the Bush administration.
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