Foreign Press Review - April 10 2006 0410-2006f
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H1 New Yorker - THE IRAN PLANS by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?

The Times The idea of US nuclear attack on Iran is just nuts, says Straw

New York Times U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord The report provides a sobering snapshot of Iraq's political, economic and security situation. The Full Report (pdf) (5.3mb)

Judt, Tony. THE FUTURE OF DECADENT EUROPE. Brookings Institution - U.S.- EUROPE Analysis Series

New York Review of Books - Hamas: The Last Chance for Peace? By Henry Siegman

The Global Delusion By John Gray Though the world's diverse societies are continuously interacting, the process is producing a variety of hybrid regimes rather than convergence on a single model.

Iran & the Bomb By Christopher de Bellaigue

New York Post Does Iran Want War? - Ralph Peters

Knight-Ridder - Experts: Iran's weapons pose little threat but are a political boon

Financial Times Editorial Stick to diplomacy

NRO Victor Davis Hanson: Has Ahmadinejad miscalculated?

Debunking the Newest – and Oldest – Jewish Conspiracy: A Reply to the Mearsheimer-Walt “Working Paper” Alan Dershowitz Harvard Law School

Asia Times Mission impossible? True US-Iran dialogue Trying to hold a constructive dialogue with Iran over Iraq while at the same time quashing its nuclear weapons ambitions and, by the way, overturning the regime may be a tricky juggling act. But the US and Iran can still debate if they engage in true dialogue and not just talk past each other as they have done in the past. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

'Why I Think Rumsfeld Must Go' - Lieut. General Greg Newbold, Time

ArmsControlWonk We Are Not Going to Nuke Iran [1]

H2 Washington Post U.S. Studying More Pointed Options on Iran

U.S. Envoy to Iraq Says Talks With Iran Delayed: Khalilzad Fears Appearance of Collusion

Let Them Have Their Civil War By Caleb Carr

A Different Model for Iraq Forget the Vietnam analogies. Korea's a better parallel. By Robert Killebrew

A Perilous Push for Iraq's Unity By Jim Hoagland

Russia's No Democracy. So What? By James Goldgeier and Michael McFaul

NYT Democracy in the Arab World, a U.S. Goal, Falters Steps toward democracy in the Middle East are slowing, blocked by legal maneuvers and official changes of heart.

Globalizing Good Government By RICHARD W. FISHER AND W. MICHAEL COX Nations can no longer sit within their borders and pursue policies incompatible with an increasingly integrated world economy.

How to Lose the Brain Race By STEVEN CLEMONS and MICHAEL LIND Other industrial democracies are reshaping their immigration policies to invite the skilled immigrants

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

The Observer Leak reveals story of 7/7 bombings The official inquiry into the London bombings will show the attack was planned on the internet, on a shoestring budget, and without support from Al-Qaeda.

Hamas calls to end suicide bombings

Los Angeles Times In Politics, Leaking Stories Is an Art

I changed my mind on Iraq. Why can't you? By Francis Fukuyama He says facts change, so why can't minds?

Sunday Telegraph America's problem isn't immigration - it's education Niall Ferguson

Richard K. Betts (Columbia): How to Think About Terrorism.

Newsweek Zakaria: A Nuclear Reality Check America goes around the world arguing that a few more warheads would be dangerous and immoral—while it has 12,000 of its own

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H3 Washington Post In Turkey, a Deep Suspicion of Missionaries
Priest's Killing Shows Complex Ties of Islam to Nationalism in Officially Secular State

World Policy Journal Turks, Armenians, and the "G-Word" Belinda Cooper and Taner Akcam Full Text PDF

CSM Kurdish unrest stirs again in Turkey Underlying tensions remain in the Kurdish southeast, where protests turned violent last week

Yasemin CONGAR ABD'den PKK diyalogları

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş Washington kavgası

Cengiz Çandar AK PARTİ'NİN KENDİ KALESİNE WASHİNGTON GOLÜ...

Ali H. Aslan [WASHINGTON] Neocon-Musevi ittifakının gazabı

Ege CANSEN Cama gelsin cana gelmesin

İspanya’nın dersleri Şahin Alpay

Appealing Offers to Turkey's Biggest Project

7 Kurdish Rebels Killed; Suspect in '05 Blast Held

Two in Turkish Security Forces Are Killed After Guerrilla Assault

Iraq Discovers Oil in Kurdistan

Kurds' Rejection of Jaafari 'Final'

Wexler Comes to Ankara with HAMAS Criticism

Azeri TV Gunaz propagandizes against Kurds

Terrorizing terrorism - By Ardalan HardiThe use of the word terrorism by Turkey and its allies on all the unrest that Ankara faces in northern Kurdistan has led to a point where it has lost its meaning.

State's Fried Outlines US Policy for "Murrow" Journalists

Will Azerbaijan agree to join the anti-Iranian coalition? Azeri press digest

Free Kurdistan NewsByUs

In Releasing Writer, Kurds Ponder Press Freedom Washington Post

Letter to the PM of Turkey from members of the European Parliament

Israel to Boycott Diplomats Who Meet Hamas Officials

LA Times In Germany, Citizenship Tests Stir Up Muslims, and Cultural Debate


Azerbaijan Says U.S. Proposals On Karabakh 'Very Interesting'

H4 New York Times U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord The report provides a sobering snapshot of Iraq's political, economic and security situation.
The Full Report (pdf) (5.3mb)

Democracy in the Arab World, a U.S. Goal, Falters Steps toward democracy in the Middle East are slowing, blocked by legal maneuvers and official changes of heart.

Globalizing Good Government By RICHARD W. FISHER AND W. MICHAEL COX Nations can no longer sit within their borders and pursue policies incompatible with an increasingly integrated world economy.

How to Lose the Brain Race By STEVEN CLEMONS and MICHAEL LIND Other industrial democracies are reshaping their immigration policies to invite the skilled immigrants that the U.S. turns away.

PAUL KRUGMAN Yes He Would Discounting the possibility that President Bush will start another ill-conceived and unnecessary war isn't sensible. It's wishful thinking.

Third Retired General Wants Rumsfeld Out

Just When It's Needed, Russia's Not There Just when Russian cooperation has become vital on Iran, President Vladimir V. Putin's post-9/11 show of support seems like a curio from another time.

Editorial The Saddam Hussein Trials The long-delayed genocide trial of Saddam Hussein cannot right history's wrongs or bridge Iraq's ethnic and religious divisions. But it can help.

Iraq Findings Leaked by Cheney's Aide Were Disputed
Reports about Saddam Hussein's nuclear efforts were being discredited by senior officials when President Bush authorized their release.

Iraqis Denounce Mubarak's Remarks on Strife

Palestinian Prime Minister Calls Western Aid Cutoff 'Blackmail'

Editorial It's the President's Turn
If President Bush wants serious immigration reform as badly as he says he does, he had better step up soon to get his party united behind him.

H5 Washington Post U.S. Studying More Pointed Options on Iran Attack unlikely in short term, but White House may threaten military strikes to pressure Tehran on its alleged nuclear program, officials say.

U.S. Envoy to Iraq Says Talks With Iran Delayed: Khalilzad Fears Appearance of Collusion

Official Dismisses Iran Policy Reports: Articles on Possible Airstrikes Are 'Ill-Informed,' White House Says

Let Them Have Their Civil War By Caleb Carr

A Different Model for Iraq Forget the Vietnam analogies. Korea's a better parallel. By Robert Killebrew

A Perilous Push for Iraq's Unity By Jim Hoagland President Bush has relied on his intuitive feelings about other leaders to shape American foreign policy through five years in office. That habit is leading him down a dangerous path in Iraq.

The Battle for Baghdad's Future Three Years After Its Fall, Capital Is Pivotal to U.S. Success in Iraq, Officers Say

civil war (siv-el wôr), n. 1 a violent conflict between organized groups within a country

Russia's No Democracy. So What? By James Goldgeier and Michael McFaul
The debate is over: Russia is not a democracy. President Vladimir Putin has weakened checks and balances within the state, diminished political and legal transparency, and made it impossible for independent media, political parties or nongovernmental groups to flourish.

U.S. Effort Seeks to Turn Iraqis Against Zarqawi Military is conducting a propaganda campaign to paint Jordanian and loyalists as a foreign threat to stability, documents and sources say.

A CONVERSATION WITH EHUD OLMERT Interim Israeli Prime Minister

U.S. Backs NATO Role in Darfur Move to bolster peacekeeping efforts in Sudan would expand U.S., allied involvment in conflict.

Editorial A Good Leak President Bush declassified some of the intelligence he used to decide on war in Iraq. Is that a scandal?

The Plame Investigation 'Concerted Effort' to Discredit Special counsel places Cheney at the center of campaign to "discredit, punish or seek revenge against" a critic of the war in Iraq

Editorial Thailand's Political Meltdown
In the name of saving democracy, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his opponents first destroy it.

Hopes for a Latino Movement Immigrant rights activists seek to unite nation's largest minority group, but forming broad-based coalition could prove daunting

Editorial A Start on NSA Oversight
Quietly, Congress is beginning to do its job on warrantless surveillance.

Political Crackups What Happens When Governments Don't Work By Sebastian Mallaby, From the White House to Congress, the signs of a political crack-up are all over Washington.

H6 Guardian US plans Iran strikes - report Bush accused of 'messianic' mission after a report in the New Yorker magazine claims that US is intent on regime change in Tehran.

Leak reveals US concerns on Iraq Six out of 18 provinces assessed as 'serious', and one 'critical'.

Former Syrian leader charged with conspiracy Syrian court charges former vice-president with inciting a foreign attack on the country and plotting to seize power.

Why dropping nukes may not be the best way for President Bush to 'save' Iran - or secure his place in history Stuart Jeffries

The convenient myth that changed a set of ideas into western valuesMadeleine Bunting: Those who arrogantly insist on recruiting the Enlightenment may not understand what they are arguing for.


The Observer Leak reveals story of 7/7 bombings The official inquiry into the London bombings will show the attack was planned on the internet, on a shoestring budget, and without support from Al-Qaeda.

Hamas calls to end suicide bombingsHamas is to abandon its use of suicide bombers, who have killed almost 300 Israelis, in any future confrontations with Israel, its activists have told The Observer.

Universalist or relativist? These are the U and non-U of modern manners Andrew Anthony: Are you U or non-U? Are you a universalist or a relativist? Forget left and right; the defining political divide is between those who believe some moral rights and freedoms ought to be universal and those who argue each culture to its own.

Leader We can beat bird flu if Europe helps the world
H7 NRO Victor Davis Hanson: Has Ahmadinejad miscalculated?

Ali Al-Zahid: The future of the Middle East will be decided in Iraq.

Who Runs the State Department? - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times

New Republic When there's nothing to say about Iraq by Leon Wieseltier

'Why I Think Rumsfeld Must Go' - Lieut. General Greg Newbold, Time

Newsweek Zakaria: A Nuclear Reality Check America goes around the world arguing that a few more warheads would be dangerous and immoral—while it has 12,000 of its own

NYT Magazine Disunities By NOAH FELDMAN In Iraq, as here, the question of our staying — or going — is divisive and fraught

Reading a Death Warrant in Tehran By SHIRIN EBADI with AZADEH MOAVENI Executions of intellectuals, a case against the state and a haunting disclosure.

NSC deputy has the right stuff for this president

The Bush Doctrine in Iran: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Boston Globe A US plan for Darfur (By Wesley Clark and John Prendergast)

Iraq and the legacy of Abraham (By James Carroll) JUDAISM, Christianity, and Islam are referred to as Abrahamic religions, a description aiming to head off the clash of civilizations by emphasizing a common connection to the patriarch whose name means ''father of multitudes."

Paper: Embassy employees forged Iraq Niger docs

Joshua Marshall: 'A cover story invented by the Italians'



H8 Does Iran Want War? - Ralph Peters, New York Post

Knight-Ridder - Experts: Iran's weapons pose little threat but are a political boon Iran probably couldn't mount much of a defense against a U.S. air attack on its nuclear sites, but such action would likely rally moderate Iranians around their ultra-conservative leaders and strengthen Iranian resolve to resist efforts to make it give up its nuclear program, Iranian and Western analysts here believe.

U.S. Seeks to Dampen Talk of Iran Strike...

Iraqi Leaders Fail to Resolve Deadlock

Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: A New Round of Diplomacy Related to the Iranian Nuclear Program.

Larijani to begin regional tour Tehran Times

Newsweek Iraq: Leading Cleric Pushes for New Govt.

Report: Iran Shoots Down Unmanned Spy Plane

Is it sectarian violence, communal fighting or civil war? By William Safire

BBC UK dismisses talk of Iran attack Straw says reports of a possible US nuclear strike against Iran are "nuts".

Iraq angered by civil war warning Iraqi leaders strongly criticise Egypt's President Mubarak after he said civil war in Iraq was imminent. Three years on: A bleak tale

Khalilzad-Casey Statement

Changing geo-political equationBy Ikram Sehgal The Daily Star The main thrust of post-Cold War US strategic thinking has been to contain China within Asia, using India as a proxy. But then, even if the US-India deal falls through, will China trust India anymore? In a different context, the 80’s economic collapse in Pakistan and Bangladesh under military dictatorships put India ahead to tie with US on a road to a free market economy. And now China has invited Gen. Musharraf to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting. The relationships among the countries in this changed geo-political equation have to be on an equitable basis or they will fail the test of both patience and time Link to full text in primary source.
H9 Ha’aretz – The Iranian clock By Shmuel Rosner

Survey: 44% Jewish Israelis are secular, 8% ultra-Orthodox

Now it can be told Ha'aretz

Time Olmert: Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran In an exclusive interview with TIME, the Israeli prime minister warns about the threat from Iran, praises President Bush and vows to press ahead with West Bank withdrawals

Chatham House - EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST - SECTARIAN WAR ZONE Conflict Coming From Rosemary Hollis

Yedioth Ahronoth Hamas against the world/ Plocker

Jerusalem Post Analysis: The escalating Gaza war Will the IDF attempt a full-scale ground operation in Gaza?
Le Monde Le Hamas puni
Outside View: Islamism is neo-Stalinism (Barry Rubin
Asia Times Cutting and running in Iraq Iraq has gone from a country with a shaky US-backedregime fighting a resistance movement to one in which sectarian killings and ethnic cleansing predominate. Rational observers can only conclude the US Army has no place in the midst of a civil war. The options seem to be defeat or an increased presence, but for the administration withdrawal is not an option. -Robert Dreyfuss
Condi Needs a New Career by Rami G. Khouri

H10 Christian Science Monitor Attacks test Iraq's Shiites Suicide attacks on civilians complicate Sunni-Shiite political reconciliation.

In Europe, quizzes probe values of potential citizens Some are calling the tests - aimed at preserving European cultural values - xenophobic and offensive.

Why 'leaker in chief' charge harms Bush The revelation exposes Bush - an outspoken opponent of leaks - to charges of hypocrisy.

H11 IHT Avoiding failure with Hamas ROBERT MALLEY The West needs to devise a real policy to deal with the real problem of Hamas.

Stratfor Political Instability in Europe's Core With the most important states in the European Union obsessed with internal issues, those seeking European stability will need to look elsewhere -- and will likely be disappointed.

From the latest issue online of World Policy, Mark Gilbert (Trento): Europe Looks for a New Narrative.

From Newropeans, an article on nationalism, obstacle for the European Union.

Der Spiegel The End of the Silvio Show?
RFE/RL Imams Call For Greater Integration Of European Muslims
H12 RFE/RL U.S.-Iran Talks On Iraq To Await New Iraqi Government


Armenian President Defends Deals With Gazprom

Azerbaijan Says U.S. Proposals On Karabakh 'Very Interesting'


U.S. Official Warns Georgia Over War, Authoritarianism


Russian nuclear forces, 2006 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

? Outside View: Wake-up call from Ukraine
H13 The Times The idea of US nuclear attack on Iran is just nuts, says Straw He insisted that Britain would not support pre-emptive military action, and was 'certain that neither would the United States'

Saudis plan to fence off border with chaos

Big chief Gordon's Cabinet Tim Hames Gordon Brown is now not only acting as Chancellor and prime minister-in-waiting, but as a strange form of shadow foreign secretary as well

For goodness' sake don't mention Europe: it doesn't fit our new image William Rees-Mogg Conservatives will have to be frank about their European policy. Silence won’t do

Sunday Times SARAH BAXTER GUNNING FOR IRAN Against the odds, America is said to be planning a military strike

Schools to shut in flu fear Ministers are drawing up plans for widespread closure of schools to halve a potential 100,000 deaths among children in the event of a pandemic


H14 Financial Times Editorial Stick to diplomacy At some point in the near futureZalmay Khalilzad, US ambassador in Baghdad, will meet Iranian diplomats to discuss stability in Iraq.

US study paints sober portrait of Iraqi discord An internal staff report by the United States Embassy and the military command in Baghdad provides a sobering snapshot of Iraq’s political, economic and security situation, providing a counterpoint to some recent upbeat public statements by top American politicians and military officials.

Straw uses tough language to rule out Iran strike

Baghdad riled by Mubarak's claims on Shia

EU paper outlines tough action on Tehran Companies doing business in Iran face the prospect of a crackdown on export credits unless Tehran's co-operation with the...

Libby case damages Bush administration

COMMENT: The world is witnessing the dawning of the age of ennui By Adam Posen Thanks to television and the internet, in democracies everyone above the poverty line has already experienced true wealth virtually, writes Adam Posen, senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics

COMMENT: Europe has no need of a flawed elite university Elite universities cannot be established by diktat. The EU needs a free and competitive academic environment, not to mention the financial support the US offers its colleges. By Wolfgang Munchau


H15 Los Angeles Times In Politics, Leaking Stories Is an Art Washington insiders have honed the skill, learning exactly when, or to whom, to disclose secrets.
Nerve Center of Shiite Opinion Became Target
I changed my mind on Iraq. Why can't you? By Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama flip-flopped on Iraq and caught flak from his former allies. He says facts change, so why can't minds?

The $10,000 welfare solution By Charles Murray Charles Murray has an audacious idea to fix the social safety net: Shred it, and give Americans cold, hard cash instead.

Get the left off my back By Todd Gitlin Todd Gitlin criticized his former comrades and faced a liberal fatwa. Why has intelligence failed on the left wing?
A 'Chilling' Examination of Genocide A U.S. lawyer followed an unlikely path to be part of the Rwanda war crimes tribunal.
FT COMMENT: Feel the benefits of foreign ownership By John GapperThe British attitude is logical, foreign takeovers have been good for the country. They have brought investment and had another benefit: they have raised management standards

Europe simulates financial meltdown Europe's financial regulators have held a "war game" exercise, simulating a continent-wide financial crisis, amid fears...

Commodity prices set to spiral even higher The five-year commodity price boom that has catapulted metal, energy and some agricultural prices to record highs is set to extend further, driven by global economic growth, tight supply and rising inflows of investment.


H16 Boston Globe Fence sitters
(By Drake Bennett) Democrats are having a grand old time watching the Republican rumble over immigration. But with divisions on the issue within their own party, they may soon have to decide where they really stand.


Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -

Newsweek Leaker in Chief? Scooter Libby and George BushIs he a CEO who stays above the fray? Or did he give the go-ahead to strike back at critics over prewar intel? A presidential mystery.

Hirsh: The GOP’s Sectarian War Over Iraq

Charlie Cook on how there is a very strong chance that the US will inevitably drift for the next three years

KR Despite high prices, consumption of gasoline is rising
H17 Daily Telegraph US mission to go to 'Long War' America has renamed the fight against terrorism the "Long War", which relies on allied unity, diplomacy, finance and trade, to defeat al-Qa'eda. Philosophy of fighting al-Qa'eda

15 die in Israeli revenge At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in a series of Israeli attacks over the weekend aimed at stopping Gaza-based militants firing rockets into Israel.

Sunday Telegraph America's problem isn't immigration - it's educationYes, boys and girls, academic achievement is the only route to decent employment in an economy at the top of the technological food chain, writes Niall Ferguson. Drop out of education and you'll be lucky to get a job alongside the Mexicans picking fruit or stacking shelves

Leader Who to believe? We recently revealed that several of Britain's defence chiefs were going to meet to discuss the effects on British interests of a military strike on Iran by the United States to destroy that county's capacity to build a nuclear bomb. Our story was categorically denied by Ministry of Defence officials, who told Sean Rayment, our Defence Correspondent, that there was "no truth in it whatsoever".

Nuclear strikes on Iran The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts.

Iraq's new model army The sooner Iraqi forces can cope on their own, the sooner foreign troops can pull out, and the sooner the insurgents will be deprived of their principal motivation. So far, though, precious few have been equal to the task.
H18 Independent Three years after Saddam's fall, US report says Iraq is in turmoil

Target Iran: US hints at a new battlefront

Condi shows us her human side (again): so what is she up to?

Diane Coyle: A journey to the dark side of the US trade deficit


Independent on Sunday It's a 'state of civil war', admits Iraqi government official

Bush administration 'secretly plans air strikes' as it seeks regime change in Iran
H19 From Studies in Intelligence, an article on Reexamining the Distinction Between Open Information and Secrets.

AT&T Whistleblower Outs NSA Spy Room

Outside View: U.S. Army's cash priority

NYRB The Hope of the WebBy Bill McKibben When, less than a decade ago, the Internet emerged as a force in most of our lives, one of the questions people often asked was: Would it prove, like TV, to be a medium mainly for distraction and disengagement?

Foreign Policy - Economist Class By Moisés Naím Practitioners of the ‘dismal science’ should stop sneering at their academic cousins in the social sciences—and start learning from them.


Website exposes Air Force One defenses...
H20 The U.S. must face its history, says Howard Zinn: ethnic cleansing, slavery, segregation, racism, imperial conquest, wars against tiny countries. It’s not much to be proud of... more»

The Wilson Quarterly, Martin Walker on America's Romance with the Future; Nicholas Eberstadt on Doom and Demography; and has futurism failed? To be human is to ponder the future. From their very beginnings, human beings have tried to anticipate tomorrow.

The Observer Has le philosophe been undone? Bernard-Henri Levy, the open-shirted media star of intellectual life in France, has been savaged in a new book, writes Jason Burke.

Der Spiegel THOSE LYING GERMANS"I Don't Speak Much English" Germans are fond of saying they don't speak English. Don't believe them. Even the beggars can panhandle in a foreign language
H21 NYT Without Judas, History Might Have Hijacked Another Villain Would the terrible legacy of anti-Semitism have been different if the "bad Judas" were not in the Christian canon from the start?

WaPo Blundering to Baghdad Two military experts argue that the Bush administration never had a viable Iraq strategy. Reviewed by Andrew F. Krepinevich, COBRA II The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

Jonathan Yardley A distinguished philosopher asks if killing innocents is ever justifiable.

Want Fast Internet? Cash, Please Toll booths might start popping up on the information superhighway, as online services fees increase.
Forever the Negotiator: Brzezinski in a Stalemate Over a Sidewalk
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