Entries from Michael Young at PostGlobal tagged with 'Middle East'
Being a Bargaining Chip May Mean Survival
Western reporters long ago lost their "white flag" of neutrality. My own concern, however, is as much for local reporters in crisis countries, whose fates rarely get written up. While captured Western journalists are valued prizes to be bartered for political gain, local reporters lack such value and are quickly killed.
Arabs May Quarrel, But Never Really Divorce
The conflict in Iraq is primarily one of comparative torment, with different groups trying to right past suffering or avoid it in the future. Yet I do not predict that Iraq will partition. Arab states are sometimes like Arab households: one may suffer but never truly breaks free.
Iraq Won't Change Much
Beirut, Lebanon - It was always easier to check into Iraq than to check out. Despite much fiddling and fidgeting, the U.S. will probably be in more or less the same position in Iraq in 2008 as it is today.
Forget Popularity, Be Effective
Beirut, Lebanon - No nation wants to be hated, least of all the United States, which aspires to be loved. But as far back as I can remember in the Middle East, no one has collectively loved -- even liked...
Iraq Will Be Decisive to Middle East Stability, Not Iran
Beirut -- For Iran to become the dominant power in the Middle East, the United States and the region's majority Sunnis would have to disappear. That's not soon likely, so expect more tension as Iran and the U.S. go at...
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