Los Angeles Times Hating the regime, fearing Uncle Sam Although Syrians are disgusted with their disgraced government, they don't want to be another Iraq.
The Economist On the cover The withdrawal of Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court is a further blow to an already storm-damaged George Bush: leader India and China What's to stop India and China?
IHT Assad's dilemma MICHAEL YOUNG The Mehlis report threatens to create a perfect storm of adversity for the regime of President Bashar Assad of Syria.
AsiaTimes Where chaos is kingGiven the chaos and violence currently afflicting much of Iraq, particularly its Sunni regions, it is hard to imagine that the Bush administration intended such an outcome to its invasion and occupation. Yet this very chaos is crucial to the US achieving its primary goals in the country and the region. - Mark LeVine
AsiaTimes Where chaos is kingGiven the chaos and violence currently afflicting much of Iraq, particularly its Sunni regions, it is hard to imagine that the Bush administration intended such an outcome to its invasion and occupation. Yet this very chaos is crucial to the US achieving its primary goals in the country and the region. - Mark LeVine New York Times Cheney Aide Appears Likely to Be Indicted; Rove Under Scrutiny Lawyers in the C.I.A. leak case expect I. Lewis Libby Jr. to be charged with making false statements to the grand jury. A Long, Rocky Road With 39 Months to Go It seems safe to say that President George W. Bush has never had a worse political week than this one - and it is not over yet. Daily Star Russia may be Europe's 'sick man,' but it does still matterBy Richard N. Haass
CFR In an interview with CFR’s Bernard Gwertzman, Council Fellow Walter Russell Mead gives the Bush administration foreign policy improving “grades” for the first year of the second term. Interview Iraq expert Noah Feldman, in an interview with CFR's Bernard Gwertzman, says this is "definitely a good thing," but the question is whether the Sunnis can bring about a diminution of the insurgent violence.
Iran launched a Satellite Assisted by Russia, Iran launched its first satellite into space from Plesetsk in northern Russia on Thursday.
"NO" Would Have Been a Better Option Kamal H. Artin - Although a "Yes" vote to Iraqi constitution is a temporary bandage to cover a deep wound, a "No" vote would have brought Kurdish dream closer to its fulfillment.
Krugman Bernanke and the Bubble The naming of Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve was a sign of President Bush's weakness, and it brought a collective sigh of relief.
Editorial Harriet Miers Exits Stage Right A Supreme Court nominee does not have to be a judge or a constitutional scholar, but should be capable of filling out the Senate's questionnaire without a do-over.
Give Them Shelter By ALEXANDER SAUNDERS The United States should use a product of its manufacturing ingenuity to help the millions left homeless by the earthquake in Pakistan.
H5 Washington Post Assad's Inner Circle Holds Power, Peril Analysts say if the group is linked to the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, the scandal could bring down his government. By Anthony Shadid and Robin Wright Scowcroft's 'Realism' - Charles Krauthammer
A Departure's Lasting Damage By E. J. Dionne Jr., The damage President Bush and the conservative movement have inflicted on their un-principled drive to pack the Supreme Court will not be undone by Harriet Miers's decision to withdraw.
Miers: A Signal Pullback By David Ignatius, This White House needs to understand that Bush's approval rating hasn't plummeted to around 40 percent because the country fears he isn't conservative enough.
FBI Dealt Setback on Cellular Surveillance The FBI may not track the locations of cell phone users without showing evidence that a crime occurred or is in progress, two federal judges ruled, saying that to do so would violate long-established privacy protections.
Slogans fail to cover up a lack of experience Simon Tisdall: Even if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remark on Israel was more than mere rhetoric, his ability to pursue a confrontational policy is severely circumscribed. White House crisis grows · Supreme court nominee withdraws· Decision in CIA leak case expected Moral right turns guns on Bush Leader: The difference a year makes The decision of Harriet Miers to withdraw her name from consideration for the US supreme court is an indication of how weakened and beleaguered the Bush administration has become.
Open Democracy George W Bush: home alone The Plamegate scandal exposes a degradation of American politics under George W Bush which shocks even senior Republicans, says Sidney Blumenthal The Long Shadow of Alan Greenspan - Jeff Taylor, Reason Volcker and Greenspan's Biggest Legacy - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune Asia Times In Iraq for the long haul When the Bush administration insists that it cannot spell out an exit strategy for Iraq and that it plans to stay put, it is being realistic. With Iraq continuing to divide US Republicans, the safe position is to refuse to be tied down to specifics. - Ehsan Ahrari
H8 Al Hayat Syrian Diplomacy and France Randa Takieddine - What did happen between 2001 and 2005 between Syria and France so that their relationship reached this level of deterioration?
AsiaTimes Where chaos is kingGiven the chaos and violence currently afflicting much of Iraq, particularly its Sunni regions, it is hard to imagine that the Bush administration intended such an outcome to its invasion and occupation. Yet this very chaos is crucial to the US achieving its primary goals in the country and the region. - Mark LeVine
Iran on course for a showdown Ahmadinejad's call for the obliteration of Israel will harden international attitudes against the Islamic republic at a time it is about to be hauled before the UN Security Council over its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad, though, has put himself on another path of confrontation: with the very people who put him in power. - Safa Haeri
Degrading our soldiers and ourselves ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Unless Americans, rise up and insist on the constraints of law, America will no longer be so beautiful.
WSJ Global Europe The Continent needs a wholly new economic model -- and mindset. By GORDON BROWN
China Is No Superpower Many in Europe and even some within the U.S. exaggerate China 's rise as a stick to beat the Bush administration. By ROSS TERRILL
Fearful of Democracy Democracy's few remaining opponents are now anxious to cloak themselves in its colors.
Root of Leak Probe Is Prewar Dispute The CIA-leak investigation has roots in a White House rift with the Central Intelligence Agency over whether administration officials politicized information before the Iraq war.
COMMENT: The White House crisis is just beginning By Ian Bremmer Some pundits have compared the Bush administration’s current troubles to those that afflicted the two most recent second-term presidents, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. But that may be understating the case.
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: A better way of stockpiling emergency medicines It is time to reconsider the entire global approach to managing emergency stockpiles and to reconcile better the need for both research and development incentives and the protection of public health, writes James Love of the Consumer Project on Technology.
COMMENT: How the world looks as a single economy By Samuel Brittan The most striking conclusion of orthodox trade theory was that low wage and high wage countries could profitably trade without one side undermining the other. Of course, the theory was never quite that simple.
H15 Los Angeles Times Hating the regime, fearing Uncle Sam Although Syrians are disgusted with their disgraced government, they don't want to be another Iraq.
CIA Leak Probe Reaches Finish Line Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald expected to announce Friday the results of his 22-month investigation.
KnightRidder Many climb on the China bandwagon From Jakarta to Vancouver and on to New Delhi and Chicago, surging interest in studying the Chinese language is just one gauge of the greater magnetic pull that China exerts after two decades of galloping economic growth.
The Strugglefor EuropeBy Patrick J. BuchananThe West’s Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? by Tony Blankley
FT OECD warns on deteriorating US deficitsThe OECD forecast that the US economy would expand at a 3.25 per cent rate over the next 18 months but it warned of the risk posed by the continued deterioration of the US current account deficit.
US presses China to revalue currency John Snow, US Treasury secretary, has told China's leaders that the US wants to see another revaluation of the renminbi...
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