William Pfaff on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Greek Unrest the Result of Suppressed Democracy

2012-02-15T23:58:00+00:00

Denied a referendum on crippling austerity measures, Greeks demonstrated Sunday night that if they couldn’t express their opinions one way, then they would do it in another.

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Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

2012-02-07T23:43:00+00:00

Stephen Hadley, a former official in ex-Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, said in Munich that Europe must spend more if it wants to be a global player. The Europeans regard the George W. Bush administration record, and now the Obama administration’s, and see the disastrous results of “global playing.”

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Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline

2012-01-31T22:57:00+00:00

Americans might do better to give up their China obsession and go back to their traditional vision of a European threat.

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Is a Nuclear Iran Really to Be Feared?

2012-01-25T21:38:00+00:00

The obsession of the American foreign policy community, as well as most American (and a good many international) politicians, by the myth of Iran’s “existential” threat to Israel, brings the world steadily closer to another war in the Middle East.

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Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

2012-01-17T23:14:00+00:00

Now that America’s primary elections have eliminated the more implausible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, it is possible to take a clearer look at what the electorate will be up against when the conventions are over in the fall.

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Karzai’s Bagram Demands Add Stress to U.S. Policy

2012-01-10T23:19:00+00:00

The Afghan government’s order a week ago to the United States to close its prison at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, where it holds unidentified prisoners, came as a shock to Washington.

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Ron Paul’s Popularity a Sign of a War-Weary America

2012-01-03T23:38:00+00:00

The clear crossover vote-getter issue on which Ron Paul has differed from the rest of the candidate crowd is war: his hostility to the commitment of both Democratic and Republican administrations to prosecuting undeclared war in the Middle East, South Asia and elsewhere.

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Fewer and Fewer Reasons for the West to Fixate on the Mideast

2011-12-29T23:24:00+00:00

There are only three valid reasons why the Middle East, the focus of international attention as 2012 begins, is important to the United States and the European nations.

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