By Brent Scowcroft The Washington Post Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated that a simple cease-fire in Lebanon is not the solution to the current violence. She says it is necessary to deal with the roots of the problem. She is right on both counts. But Hezbollah is not the source of the problem; […]
By William Wallis Financial Times The road to a peaceful Jerusalem does not run through Baghdad, as American neo-conservatives argued in 2001-03 – nor through Tehran or Damascus which, according to hawks in the US and Israel, should be under attack. It runs through Washington…more
By Niall Ferguson Los Angeles Times THIS IS NOT the first time that world leaders have had their summers ruined by “a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” In the summer of 1938, the quarrel between Germans and Czechs over the Sudetenland — which inspired Neville Chamberlain’s notorious phrase […]
By Steven Weisman & Tom Wright International Herald Tribune GENEVA Negotiations aimed at reaching a new global trade agreement collapsed here Monday, touching off a bitter new round of recriminations between the United States and Europe over farm trade barriers and dealing a blow to the Bush administration’s international economic agenda…more
By Colum Lynch & Robin Wright The Washington Post The United States faces growing tensions with allies over its support of Israel’s military campaign to cripple Hezbollah, amid calls for a cease-fire to help with the mounting humanitarian crisis…more