1031-2005f FOREIGN PRESS REVIEW (FPR) - ‘Relevant news, views, comments and analysis from all around the world’ Compiled by Şanlı Bahadır Koç / e-mail : sbahadir@bilkent.edu.tr - Subscribe to FPR Ext. links Britain/ Turkey/ Magazines/ US / Think-tanks / Blogs / Misc /Books / Quickread / Numbers / Reports H1NYT Book Review 'The Assassins' Gate': Occupational Hazards By FAREED ZAKARIA In his chronicle of the Iraq war, George Packer describes a poorly planned and executed takeover of Iraq. First Chapter Financial Times US ‘had no policy’ in place to rebuild Iraq The US government had “no comprehensive policy or regulatory guidelines” in place for staffing the management of postwar Iraq, according to the top government watchdog overseeing the country’s reconstruction. Time A Time To Regroup Bloodied by scandal, setbacks and casualties, Bush is looking for fresh troops and a new battle plan Washington Post The Real Crime White House vs. CIA Was The Wrong Battle By David Ignatius
Syria's Wobbly Godfather Jr. Will the Hariri Affair Be a Turning Point in the Assad Family Saga? By Flynt Leverett
The Observer Dangerous bluster Peter Beaumont: The Iranian President's call for the destruction of Israel only benefits Israel.
NYT War Powers in the Age of Terror By ANDREW J. BACEVICH In a post-9/11 world, what limits — if any — exist on the president's authority to use force?
H2 The Times Independence for Kurdistan: Goal, Dream, or Just Destiny? Washington Post Kurds Reclaim Prized Territory Expanding settlements are re-engineering the physical and political landscape of northern Iraq. The two Kurdish parties are handling everything from paying relocation costs for Kurds and buying out Arab landowners, down to prescribing exact schematics for how the new Kurdish homes should be built to maximize efficiency.
Financial Times COMMENT: Hell is Europe talking globalisation By Wolfgang Munchau Co-ordination ultimately requires the establishment of a Eurozone Council of heads of state and government, backed by a civil service
IHT Nonviolent, yet dangerous By ZEYNO BARAN Occupying a gray zone of militancy, with its activities involving more than mere expression of opinion but less than terrorism, regulating Islamist groups like HT poses a unique challenge to liberal democracies. H4 New York Times U.N. Is Expected to Pass Measure Pressuring Syria The resolution threatens Syria with sanctions if it does not help with the inquiry into the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister.
War Powers in the Age of Terror By ANDREW J. BACEVICH In a post-9/11 world, what limits — if any — exist on the president's authority to use force?
Editorial Worldwide but Homegrown Right now it is in everyone's best interest to keep control of the Internet where it was founded, in America.
The Real Sunnis: Please Stand Up By JOHN F. BURNS Developments in Iraq could mean that Sunnis, rather than embracing the new order, have found intrusive new ways to frustrate it
Editorial The House's Abuse of Patriotism With some of the Patriot Act's most sweeping powers set to expire at the end of the year, the two houses of Congress face crucial negotiations.
Herbert Smoke Gets in Our Eyes The art of Bush-speak is to achieve the effect of a lie without actually getting caught in a lie.
Krugman Ending the Fraudulence The Bush administration will stagger on for three more years. But its essential fraudulence stands exposed. H5 Washington Post Syria's Wobbly Godfather Jr. Will the Hariri Affair Be a Turning Point in the Assad Family Saga? By Flynt Leverett Death of Syrian Minister Leaves Sect Adrift It is an instance, writ small, of the growing frustration and fear in the Alawite sect that has served as the backbone of 35 years of Baath Party rule and is still viewed as the linchpin of President Assad's five years in power. The Real Crime White House vs. CIA Was The Wrong Battle By David Ignatius
A Leak, Then a Deluge Did a Bush loyalist, trying to protect the case for war in Iraq, obstruct an investigation into who blew the cover of a covert CIA operative? Friday's indictment of Cheney's chief of staff places the vice president closer than previously known to events at the heart of the controversy.
Lessons of Scandals Past By Lou Cannon, Presidents and their staffs resemble the families described by Tolstoy: All happy ones are alike while each unhappy one is unhappy in its own way. Scandals have a particular capacity for focusing this unhappiness. Replacing his staff helped Ronald Reagan get over the Iran-contra scandal. His example could be a useful guidepost for George W. Bush.
Bush Must Chart Recovery The president faces such a complex set of problems that his prospects of bouncing back are particularly daunting
Iran's Useful Reminder By Jim Hoagland Most Valuable Politician of the year? How about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who reminds a distracted world at crucial moments of the true nature of Iran's regime, of the abiding source of conflict in the...
The Realist Who Got It Wrong By Charles Krauthammer, It is not surprising that Brent Scowcroft, who helped give indecency a 12-year life extension in Iraq, should disdain decency's return. But we should not.
Editorial To Revive a Presidency POLITICAL COMMENTARY is addicted to bold trends: Leaders must be either up or down; sideways isn't tolerated.
The Dutch, Too Tolerant for Their Own Good? A Country Caught Between Tradition And Terrorism By Frida Ghitis U.S., Japan Plan to Realign Defenses The move aimed at bolstering military cooperation against new threats while consolidating U.S. forces on the island. Do Seniors Need Saving? By Sebastian Mallaby, The big economic argument today is not just about tax cuts or free trade or minimum wages. It's about the risks created by going gray and going global at the same time -- and about how much individuals can cope unaided. Can we expect citizens to weather the challenge from India and China without... 'They Tell Me They've Assassinated My Brother'
Al Hayat The Collapse of the "Balance of Deterrence" Zouheir Kseibati - Ahmadi Nejad could hide behind Khumeini's speech, as he did yesterday, to avoid a decline in his popularity amongst the Iranians.
Nonviolent, yet dangerous By ZEYNO BARAN Occupying a gray zone of militancy, with its activities involving more than mere expression of opinion but less than terrorism, regulating Islamist groups like HT poses a unique challenge to liberal democracies. H12 RFE/RL Little Foreign Policy Impact Seen From Indictment Experts say the indictment of a senior White House official is not good news for the presidency, however it will have little effect, if any, on the future direction of U.S. foreign policy. Ahmadinejad: Iran Will Not Return To Nuclear Freeze The Putin Paradox - Jonathan Fanton, Boston Globe
Financial Times In the quake's wake Natural disasters are remembered first for the suffering they cause; second, for the suffering that might have been avoided had relief efforts been more generous and...
Black reputation Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, and other Communist party leaders have argued convincingly that they need to address China's severe environmental and social challenges as well as simply promoting economic growth.
No case for a windfall tax on the oil industry Asked why he robbed banks, American outlaw Willie Sutton famously replied "because that's where the money is". For much the same reason, it would be surprising if...
US ‘had no policy’ in place to rebuild Iraq The US government had “no comprehensive policy or regulatory guidelines” in place for staffing the management of postwar Iraq, according to the top government watchdog overseeing the country’s reconstruction.
COMMENT: Hell is Europe talking globalisation By Wolfgang Munchau Co-ordination ultimately requires the establishment of a Eurozone Council of heads of state and government, backed by a civil service
COMMENT: Crisis-management skills will be needed at the Fed Mr Bernanke is up to the challenge, but he is sure to be severely tested, writes Jeffrey Garten, Juan Trippe professor in international trade and finance at the Yale School of Management.
COMMENT: Prepare now for a Sino-Indian trade boom The potential for growth is staggering but Chinese companies, with their razor-thin margins and low overhead costs, are best placed to cater to the cross-border opportunity, writes Niraj Dawar, visiting professor at Insead in Singapore
H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Menace in the Mideast THE FRIGHTENING PROSPECT of a nuclear-armed Iran became even more terrifying last week with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declaration that Israel "must be wiped off the map."
Editorial Saving the second term CAMP DAVID IS WHERE PRESIDENTS often go to lick their wounds. So President Bush's departure Friday for the Maryland retreat was as predictable as it was necessary; within the span of a week, he has seen a high-ranking administration official indicted for obstructing justice in the Valerie Plame inquiry and his White House counsel forced by critics within his own party to withdraw as a nominee to the Supreme Court.
H17 Daily Telegraph Home frontThe Gunpowder Plot conspirators believed that religion was of primary importance, as do Islamic jihadis today, and that violent insurrection was a legitimate response to a government and society that refused to subscribe to their way of seeing the world, writes Philip Johnston.Bush needs aides who speak their minds Bush's presidency is in deep trouble, says Alec Russell. He would be making a huge mistake if he fell back on his routine and listened only to a chosen few for advice.
Bush resists reshuffle callPresident George W Bush is expected to resist calls to fire officials and reshuffle his staff as he tries to relaunch his presidency after last week's disasters for the White House.
US admits death tollThe US military has admitted it is keeping records of Iraqi deaths as it disclosed that it estimates 26,000 to have been killed or injured by insurgents since January 2004.
Special report: Bush faces his Watergate The White House has lost a key man but the whole chain of command may be engulfed as the lies that led to war are revealed.
Assessing the State of Homeland Security Michael E. O'Hanlon; Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security of the Committee of the Judiciary H20 Slate H21 In praise of ... HyperionEarlier this month a small English record company did a remarkable thing: it issued, in one boxed set, the first complete recordings of Franz Schubert's songs.
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