US war for oil lacks a punchline

Paul McGeough 'What's the difference between a duck,'' my father would ask us as kids.

Paul McGeough

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?

Paul McGeough

Rebels bank on Aleppo as new Benghazi

Paul McGeough Let's get real. The Syrian conflict is a war, not a French-knitting circle.

Paul McGeough

Why Obama faces a hopeless war in Syria

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

Paul McGeough

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.

Paul McGeough

Authoritarian habits prove hard to break

Paul McGeough If the rise of the Egyptian Islamists gives us a few laughs, the refusal by the Cairo generals to relinquish power is the stuff of tears.

Paul McGeough

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.