Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
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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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Iran is still talking, if nothing else
Paul McGeough It could hardly be called an agreement. But when talks between Iran and a European Union-led delegation broke up in Geneva on Tuesday, a faint promise of more powwow hung in the chill Swiss air.
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The NRA-style potshot is alive and well
Paul McGeough If just a single bully works the neighbourhood, there's a good chance that his protection racket can hold up.
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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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Obama changes course between courses
Paul McGeough For a time there, it looked like business as usual in the Middle East.
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Rash Israel lights Arab Spring powder keg
Paul McGeough The Middle East this week? Think Colorado in July and the movie megaplex massacre.
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US talks reform from comfort of fence
Paul McGeough Amid historic hoopla, something often happens that comes back to bite someone on the bum.
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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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War of words is Israel's best defence
Paul McGeough Is Israel actually going to war - or merely threatening to go to war?
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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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Postage stamp nation as global ringmaster
Paul McGeough The word ''bluff'' gets an outing in analysis these days. Is Benjamin Netanyahu bluffing about an attack on Iran?
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What it takes to put Tehran on the mat
Paul McGeough A quick fix is unlikely to emerge from talks in Istanbul, through which the West hopes to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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A fledgling democracy needs support, not suspicion
Paul McGeough AS IF they do not have enough on their plate, the biggest challenge for Egyptians after dislodging Hosni Mubarak is to prove that their uprising is not a repeat of the 1979 Iranian revolution, which...
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WikiLeaks reveals unreliable war cries and chequebook democracy
Paul McGeough THE danger in WikiLeaks' dump of reams of super-sensitive cables from Washington's worldwide listening posts is not merely that the game has been revealed but how it might play out in future.
