Trudy Rubin’s Worldview column runs on Wednesdays and Sundays. In the past five years she has visited Iraq nine times and has also written from Iran, Pakistan, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, China and South Korea
Commentary
As John McCain and Barrack Obama gin up their campaigns, a general of importance to both of them is winding down his job.
In his Denver speech, Sen. Barack Obama tried to lay to rest the issue of whether he has the experience to become commander in chief.
- Joe Biden will be a good adviser on national security, yet he may be even more valuable making Obama's case about the economy.Trudy Rubin: The choice of Joe Biden as candidate for veep made me recall a conversation with him at the 2004 Democratic convention.
- The new civilian government and the military must realize that fighting the jihadis is in the best interests of the country.Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, the longtime military dictator who resigned Monday, was an ambivalent ally in the fight against radical Islamists.
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I've received a lot of angry e-mail about my last column, which harshly criticized Russia for invading Georgia. Many of the writers argue the Bush administration has no "moral authority" to condemn Russia because we invaded Iraq. One wrote: "We lost our moral high ground and set a precedent that invites any country on Earth to do exactly the same thing." Some also ask why we don't support South Ossetia's independence when we did support Kosovo's.
- The U.S. and Europe must fashion a united nonmilitary response that stresses the dire consequences of the invasion.The Russian invasion of Georgia last week took place just before the 40th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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The Pakistani foreign minister spoke with passion. Better relations with India "are a top priority," Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi told guests, emphatically, at a recent private dinner in Villanova, organized by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. Speaking the elegant English of a Cambridge University graduate, he insisted: "There is a large constituency on both sides that wants normalization. There may be hiccups, but we will forge ahead."
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I can understand why John McCain is POd. Barack Obama visits Iraq and admits things are better there, but he refuses to credit "the surge."
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To an amazing extent, Bush foreign policy seems to be turning toward the positions of Barack Obama. On Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and other issues, the administration was shifting gears just as the Illinois senator left embarked on his overseas voyage. Some of these changes were forced on the White House by events. Some reflect late recognition that policies were not working.
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We're reaching a McBama moment in Iraq, when realities on the ground may force the positions of the candidates to converge.
- What future awaits U.S. boys in madrassas?Yesterday, two teenage American boys finally arrived in Atlanta after being forced to spend four years in a radical Pakistani religious school that recruits for the Taliban.
- Army is not focused on the jihadi threat.When a suicide car bomb killed scores of people at the gate of the Indian Embassy in Kabul this week, the shock waves reached Washington.
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