Entries from M.J. Akbar at PostGlobal tagged with 'United States'
Occupation Only Lights More Fuses
Brilliant proposition, but there is a third “mine” – undermine. George Bush has undermined the American people with the number of fuses he has lit in the Middle East. If the Iraq mine explodes when the foot comes off, that's better than staying to light more fuses.
Hypocrisy and the Good Life
There won't be a world war over global warming, but there won't be global peace either.
Allied With Iran Against Israel
New Delhi, India - Equipped with a mountain of weapons left behind by George Bush, the Iraqi armed forces will raise confrontation with Israel to the top of its agenda.
Bush's Misguided 'War on Infidelity'
New Delhi, India - The generation that gave the world free love and the pill in the 1960s and fed its collapsing libido with Viagra thirty years later has a curious hangover: Intrusive morality.
Install a Muslim Force in Iraq
New Delhi, India - The most important word in the question is 'three', for 9/11 occurred five years ago. Muslims of faith are sensitive to the difference between justice and injustice, and they view the occupation of Iraq, with its...
Look Beyond Failed Formulas
New Delhi, India - My first suggestion is do not travel without a destination. At the moment, the U.S. Secretary of State's journeys are more in the spirit of Marco Polo or Ibn Batuta: We shall find what we can...
Back-Flip Multilateralism
New Delhi, India -- What a wonderful idea! Why not begin by choosing Kofi Annan's successor from the current general assembly in Germany? Teams that believe in kick-and-run rule themselves out as anathema to UN culture, which takes care of...
Don't Mix Popular Movements with Government
New Delhi -- The G-8 is an assembly of governments, not popular movements or insurgencies. Should Russia and the other G-8 countries send representatives to the Anti-Iraq War movements in America and Britain?...
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