Paul McGeough

Paul McGeough

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

Paul McGeough

Rash Israel lights Arab Spring powder keg

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Paul McGeough The Middle East this week? Think Colorado in July and the movie megaplex massacre.

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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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Why Obama faces a hopeless war in Syria

Paul McGeough ''Sensible'' doesn't cut it when women and children are being murdered on YouTube.

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Take a bite out of Iran at your peril

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Paul McGeough You'd have thought the reality of Afghanistan and Iraq might act as a break on the instinctive lunge by hawks to compare apples with oranges as they try to gull us into a belief that war is a doddle.