Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Maliki’s ability to unite Iraq is questioned (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 22 Aug 2007, Page 7)

Maliki’s ability to unite Iraq is questioned
By Yochi J. Dreazen And Greg Jaffe
The Wall Street Journal Europe
22 Aug 2007

Baghdad, Iraq SENIOR U.S. MILITARY commanders in Iraq are increasingly divided over whether Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his weak coalition are capable of making the necessary compromises that might help end the fighting in the... read more...

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Karl Rove’s legacy is the spread of compassionate conservatism (The Business, 18 Aug 2007, Page 20)

Karl Rove’s legacy is the spread of compassionate conservatism
James Forsyth Political Notebook
The Business
18 Aug 2007

George W Bush’s legacy will be Iraq. Karl Rove’s will be compassionate conservatism – the campaign platform that Rove drew up for Bush when the then Texas governor started thinking about running for president in the late 1990s. The coverage of the... read more...

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Reversal of Fortune (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 13 Aug 2007, Page 10)

Reversal of Fortune
By Bret Stephens
The Wall Street Journal Europe
13 Aug 2007

New York Benazir Bhutto is not the sort of woman who inspires indifference. Admirers and detractors alike broadly agree that the former two-time prime minister is Pakistan’s most gifted politician: an Oxford Union-trained debater, an heiress to the... read more...