Paul McGeough

Paul McGeough

Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.

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The road to democracy was ever thus

Paul McGeough What was going down at the Jones's over Christmas?

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Karzai's cabal steals the national capital

Paul McGeough The Kabul Bank fiasco is as much Canberra's legacy as it is Washington's.

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Coalition of the unwilling to understand

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Paul McGeough With apologies to film director Ken Kwapis, they're just not that into us. We're talking about Afghans.

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Assad's Alawites run out of options

Paul McGeough The dilemma for Syria's Alawites is acute. Do they go off a cliff with Bashar al-Assad, or can they retreat to safe ground?

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In the US, the gun lobby calls the shots

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Paul McGeough It didn't take long for a would-be copycat of last week's Colorado mass killer to emerge.

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Brass hue to silver lining of a new Egypt

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Paul McGeough An all's-well presumption in some quarters on the Egyptian presidential election is bizarre.

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Egyptian generals let Arab Spring wilt

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Paul McGeough The jig was up in Cairo when Barack Obama coughed up to the generals a cool $1.5 billion.

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When charity bites the hand that feeds it

Paul McGeough In Afghanistan it's mop-up time. As foreign armies eye the exits, a meeting in San Francisco last week was a different kind of mopping-up for a non-combat force that is likely to remain on the ground...

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Terrorists thrive as US turns blind eye

Paul McGeough Who would have thought in a post-September 11 world that you could find an organisation that kills hundreds of Americans in dozens of terrorist strikes - but which Washington refuses to punitively...

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