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H1 IHT To embrace or not to embrace By HENRY A. KISSINGER The stakes in Pakistan are generally recognized. The remedy has proved elusive.

A EUROPEAN DEFENSE Keeping the peace By BERNARD KOUCHNER The Europeans need military means commensurate with their political ambitions. How could we hope to influence a crisis or negotiations without the means to back up our words?

IRAQ'S ENERGY PROBLEM

Oil and electricity ministries won't mix By GLENN ZORPETTE

Lack of electricity is still a big problem in Iraq, largely because Iraq's Ministries of Oil and Electricity are at loggerheads

Asia Times Iran shifts focus fully on Iraq Whether it's a part of a secret deal with the United States or not, Iran does appear to be distancing itself from its proxies in the Arab world, at the same time showing a free hand in Iraq. The days of Hezbollah in Lebanon could be numbered. - Sami Moubayed

Time Iran's Referendum on Ahmadinejad

Can We Export Democracy? Tamara Cofman Wittes and Christopher J. Coyne, Cato Policy Report

Reidar Visser Debating Devolution in Iraq

Ellen Laipson Iraq’s Regional Impact

Iran: A policy brief by the Carnegie Endowment’s George Perkovich criticizes proposals to allow Iran to run a small uranium research and development facility as a form of compromise.

Washington Post Editorial Ms. Rice's Retreat The secretary of state, who once championed reform in Egypt, waives human rights restrictions on U.S. aid

Iraq's Surging Violence By Eugene Robinson, Has anyone noticed that Iraq is growing less peaceful and tranquil by the day?

How the Democrats Could Lose By Richard Cohen, By the time they get a nominee, the Democratic Party could be one, huge, dysfunctional family.

Uneasy Calm Emerges in Gaza as U.S., Egypt Push Talks: Israel and Hamas Have Largely Been Holding Their Fire

Guardian Before the flood

Javier Solana: The countries of Europe must devise urgent strategies to deal with the consequences of climate change, as our report clearly shows

China's trade surplus 63% down China's oft-criticised trade surplus falls dramatically in unusually weak period for exports

We believe in miracles Seth Freedman & Asim Siddiqui: Yes it looks bleak at the moment, but the vast majority of Israelis and Palestinians still want peace. Here are our ideas

The war at home Dean Baker The $180bn spent each year on the Iraq war could certainly be put to better uses, but the war isn't to blame for America's economic crisis

WSJ A President, Not a SymbolBy Bret Stephens
Global View: There are many reasons an Obama presidency appeals to so many Americans, and not the least of them is that it appeals to so many non-Americans.

Karl Rove's advice for Barack Obama.

Bush and the Dollar
By David Malpass
When it comes to currency strength, words can work magic

CFR Kupchan: Recognizing Kosovo Least Bad Option for United States

Jim Lobe Int'l Support Ebbs for West's Nuclear Hard Line

Financial Times The real problem with Power In an ideal world, politicians and their advisers would be able to talk openly about their real thoughts and admit to doubts. But it would also be politically impossible, says Gideon Rachman

Climate ‘threatens’ European security The risks posed by global warming include sharper competition for energy resources, disputes over territory and an influx of ‘environmental migrants’, an EU report warns

Fate of finance lies with real economy If the scenario that an aggressive monetary policy will keep the slump short is not correct, then a credit squeeze that is long and deep remains a possibility

Ha’aretz Marcus Two states - not three The presence of a Hamas delegate at peace talks will not make life easy, but it will give hope to a million and a half Gazans who are eating the bread of adversity and drinking the water of affliction

Prepare to sign Israel must utilize the current lull and the PA's willingness to immediately push forward in the negotiations and establish the parameters for a solution to the core issues, to get an agreement signed quickly

Who Makes the Decisions Inside Hamas? - Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel (Ha'aretz

Asia Times SPENGLER
Should Islam be blamed
for 'barbaric' acts? The issue of Muslim "barbarism", including honor killings, genital mutilation and other forms of violence against women, has risen in prominence in Europe 's political agenda. The question appears to be: Do Muslims commit barbaric acts because they are bad Muslims or because they are good Muslims? But it's the wrong question

Think Again: Geneva Conventions By: Steven R. Ratner | Foreign Policy (subscription required) They help protect civilians and soldiers from the atrocities of war. But these hard-won rules of battle are falling by the wayside: Terrorists ignore them, and governments increasingly find them quaint and outdated. With every violation, war only gets deadlier for everyone

Fatah Must Reinvent Itself, or Risk Irrelevance By: Mouin Rabbani | The Daily Star With preparations accelerating, it seems increasingly likely that Fatah, the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, will hold its Sixth General Conference during 2008.

The Times Slow but steady is no bad thing for Pakistan

The only point on which Pakistan’s political parties are really agreed is getting rid of President Musharraf

Iraq surge fears after al-Qaeda's deadly return Suicide bombers strike a US patrol in Baghdad killing five American troops and the head of a counter-insurgency group

Spanish election: a mandate in Madrid The re-elected Socialist Government needs to prepare for economic squalls

CSIS The Nuclear Mission in the 21st Century

H 2 FT Turkish offensive upsets political balance Ankara’s intense attack on PKK rebels in Iraq is straining its long-standing relationship with the Kurdish government and setting off fears of regional destabilisation

NYT Samsun Journal: A Patchwork Land Confronts a Lie of Whole Cloth

IHT Photographs unravel Turkey's ethnic tapestryA book by Attila Durak detailing 44 different ethnicities in Turkey has forced a hard look at the years of efforts to portray the country as a monoculture

Washington Times Poor communication (By Tulin Daloglu)

ABD: 'Teröristlerle Görüşün Demedik'

Amerika'da Türkler ve Seçim

CSM Turkish scholars aim to modernize Islam's Hadith Theologians are revisiting the collections of the prophet Muhammad's sayings that Muslims use as a guideline for daily life

Şimdi de Dick Cheney geliyor

PKK Says Iraqi President "Wrong" to Call on It to Leave Bases The PKK is not a guest; it is at home [in Kurdistan]

PKK Committee Head Interviewed By Iraqi Kurdish Paper Karayılan “Mam Jalal [Talabani] had to play politics as a president of republic, not as a party chief”

TALABANI CONDEMNS PKK, CALLS ON TURKEY TO ENGAGE WITH KRG Eurasia Daily Monitor

Turkey's GDP revised up a third

Moscow, Istanbul could see real estate booms

'Kill a Hundred Turks and Rest…'
by Uri Avnery

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