Foreign Policy News and Commentary Update January 8, 2008 from Bronxville, New York

"President Bush is not doing a single thing I don't agree to ... He doesn't
support anything that I oppose.?

--Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert; cited in Jon Ward and David R. Sands,
"Bush bound for Mideast" (Washington Times, January 7)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080107/SPECIALREPORT/111420189/1001&template=printart

Darker Shade Of Green Zone: In Baghdad, Low Expectations Have Supplanted
High Ideals - Karen DeYoung (Washington Post, January 5):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404125_pf.html

Voting for a Smile - Maureen Dowd (New York Times, January 6):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/opinion/06dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

Confidence in America: The Best Change the Next President Can Make -
Madeleine K. Albright (Washington Post, January 7):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/06/AR2008010601827_pf.html

Why I Believe Bush Must Go: Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse - George
McGovern (Washington Post, January 6):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404308_pf.html

Ten Ways to Prevent Peace and Goodwill on Earth - Colleen Turner (Huffington
Post, December 29): Among them:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/colleen-turner/ten-ways-to-prevent-peace_b_78701.html

Seeds of Hate [Review of Jihad And Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the
Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Küntzel] - Jeffrey Goldberg (New York Times, January
6):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Goldberg-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Democracy Gets Small Portion of U.S. Aid:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/05/AR2008010502199_pf.html

Conspiracy and Democracy in Pakistan Editorial (New York Times, January
7):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/opinion/07mon3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

The Duty My Wife Left Us - Asif Ali Zardari (Washington Post, January 5):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403074_pf.html

Hands Off Pakistan - Sheldon Richman (Commentary, Future of Freedom
Foundation, January 4):
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0801a.asp

It's Troubled, But It's Home - Mohsin Hamid (Washington Post, January 6):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404309_pf.html

46,000 Iraqis Have Left Syria: Returns Reflect Security Gains, Aid Workers
Say - Amit R. Paley (Washington Post, January 5)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403505.html?hpid=topnews

A Year in Iraq - Adriana Lins De Albuquerque and Alicia Cheng (New York
Times, January 6): For those in uniform in Iraq, 2007 was the deadliest year
since the invasion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/opinion/06chart.html?pagewanted=prin

Iraq's unknown economy - Michael O'Hanlon (Washington Times, January 6):
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/COMMENTARY/199042309/1012/commentary&template=printart

Washington, Ankara and the PKK Editorial (Washington Times, January 7):
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080107/EDITORIAL/3383868/1013/editorial&template=printart

Rehabilitating Libya Editorial (New York Times, January 5):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/opinion/05sat3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

Bush's Mideast trip - Chuck Freilich (Washington Times, January 7):
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080107/EDITORIAL/913506715/1013/editorial&template=printart

Accountability for Pyongyang: Time to send North Korea a unified message:
Come clean - Editorial (Los Angeles Times, January 7):
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-korea07jan07,0,2456200.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

Georgia's Way Back: It starts, but does not end, with elections today
Editorial (Washington Post, January 5):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403557_pf.html

Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, An Imperialist Comedy (Tom Dispatch, January 6):
http://tomdispatch.com/post/print/174877/Tomgram%253A%2520%2520Chalmers%2520Johnson%252C%2520An%2520Imperialist%2520Comedy

Bush, forgotten man of 2008 - Jurek Martin (Financial Times, January 3):
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ecf7843e-ba1f-11dc-abcb-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1