Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Sex trumps torture and corruption
Paul McGeough This is about carnal relations, not global security - got it? We're talking sex, so if you're looking for heavy breathing about ethics and morality, move on, turn the page.
So many secrets, not enough intelligence
Paul McGeough Does this jolt to the massive combine that is the US intelligence system, by the unseemly departure of the head of the CIA in what we know as the Petraeus affair, require a pause to look at the house...
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The military adviser left out in the cold
Paul McGeough The lost pages of Catch-22 have turned up: they are the real-life career notes of Gwenyth Todd.
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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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Rebels bank on Aleppo as new Benghazi
Paul McGeough Let's get real. The Syrian conflict is a war, not a French-knitting circle.
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Take a bite out of Iran at your peril
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.
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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...
