<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Fred Hiatt</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/hiattfred?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><description>Fred Hiatt</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[China's Selective Memory]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61708-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61708-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has made clear that it doesn't think Japan is deserving of similar status.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the Mall Grow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52532-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52532-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The Mall is close to full. The next would-be stakeholder, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, should and probably will find a choice spot. But no one believes there won't be more museums and monuments clamoring for space. As history unspools, Americans will want to commemorate it, and the Mall will be their first choice.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victims of a Stalled Revolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12639-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12639-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You can tell a lot about a government by the enemies it keeps.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Few Words Between Friends]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24750-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24750-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   MUNICH -- To measure the gap that President Bush will be trying to bridge on his goodwill tour of Europe next week, you could start by counting words.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad News Donkeys]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3604-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3604-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry spent much of last year telling voters how badly off they were.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rules of Punditry]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45982-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45982-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Freedom of the press in Russia, in the years after the fall of the Soviet Union, took on a double meaning. Journalists felt free to criticize those in power and expose their wrongdoings, which was exhilarating. But too often they also felt free to sell their services -- to print "news" on their front pages, for example, that sang the praises of businesses or politicians who paid a going price.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jefferson Fenced In]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61925-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61925-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fortunately, Thomas Jefferson can't see the ugly concrete barriers and metal fences impinging on his monument; he is facing the other way,  across the Tidal Basin.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage Under Fire]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28090-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28090-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Returning to Washington from Baghdad this month for home leave gave A. Heather Coyne a shock, and not just thanks to the cold. In Iraq, as chief representative of the U.S. Institute of Peace, Coyne spends her days working with that country's emerging civil society. Back home, she finds Americans astonished to hear that there <em>is </em>an emerging civil society -- that Iraqis remain involved with rebuilding their country despite all the explosions and killings.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Motives]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60178-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60178-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Many experts have speculated about why President Vladimir Putin and his narrow circle seem so determined to lead Russia in a self-defeating direction. Explanations range from misplaced imperial nostalgia to personal insecurity and a need for absolute control to an overzealous response to Russians' understandable desire for stability. Increasingly, though, it seems another, perhaps more rational, motive should not be excluded: simple thievery.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Foreign Policy to Match Bush's Rhetoric?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50171-2004Nov14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50171-2004Nov14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In an interview last spring, Sen. John F. Kerry made clear that promoting democracy abroad would not be a priority of his presidency. Of course he believed in freedom and human rights, but in every country there seemed to be a goal that would rank higher for him in importance: securing nuclear materials in Russia, fighting terrorism alongside Saudi Arabia, pursuing Middle East peace with Egypt, controlling Pakistan's nuclear program, integrating China into the world economy.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital Eyesore]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14691-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14691-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Here's a piece of advice for the president who will be chosen tomorrow: Take a walk around your White House.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doomed to Be Left in The Dark?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40841-2004Oct17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40841-2004Oct17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   One thing we have learned from this presidential campaign is that an honest debate on the terrorist threat is not possible. This is unfortunate, since no debate would be more important.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Nation,  Not Just  A Symbol]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7253-2004Oct4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7253-2004Oct4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In 1991, as civil war raged in Afghanistan and the ranks of Islamic radicals there swelled, the first President Bush turned to a CIA briefer and asked, puzzled, "Is that thing still going on?"]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy in Trouble]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34323-2004Sep19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34323-2004Sep19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Ten years ago democracy was on the march, and its progress seemed more or less inevitable. Political freedom was assumed to expand with economic prosperity, and international relations were expected to grow smoother as the number of democratic nations swelled.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witness to Genocide]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64620-2004Sep5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64620-2004Sep5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Imagine that genocide  were taking place -- thousands of children dying, women raped, men mowed down in groups -- just as the American political parties held their quadrennial conventions. Surely it would be a major subject of conversation and alarm as the nation's political elite debated their agendas for the coming four years.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denying Democracy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14223-2004Jul25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14223-2004Jul25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Eight summers and two conventions ago, when the Democrats gathered in Chicago to renominate President Bill Clinton, their National Democratic Institute honored one absent democrat with its highest award.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Iraq, Focus and Idealism]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10712-2004Jun27.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10712-2004Jun27.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   To land back in Washington after a few days in Iraq is a jarring experience, and not just because of the 30-degree difference in temperature. Conversation here seems to dwell on measuring failure, apportioning blame, and calculating the effect on American politics and American power. In Iraq, the focus tends to be on what is at stake for Iraq and on how to achieve progress there.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Viceroy's Farewell Calls]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53703-2004Jun18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53703-2004Jun18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BAGHDAD -- L. Paul Bremer, for two more weeks lord of all he surveys in Iraq, is, at least in theory, paying a farewell call on one of his favorite ayatollahs. Shiite cleric Hussein Sadr has invited his friend to lunch, as he has many times during Bremer's 13 months here, and for Bremer it is something of a nostalgic moment in a schedule that leaves little space for sentiment. For an outsider invited along for the ride -- and what a ride it is, about which more below -- the visit provides a small window on some accomplishments of the past year, often little seen from the United States, and on some disappointments.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Consequences of Torture]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39343-2004Jun13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39343-2004Jun13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  "What if by using torture against an al Qaeda operative, U.S. forces were able to prevent a significant terrorist attack and save hundreds or thousands of American lives," a reader wrote to  The Post in a letter published Friday. "Should torture be authorized?"]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Hawks Should Be Angry]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3520-2004May30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3520-2004May30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/hiattfred</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Zell Miller, the plain-spoken quasi-Democrat from Georgia, took to the Senate floor earlier this month to bemoan all the fuss about the prison abuse scandal.]]></description><author> Fred Hiatt</author></item></channel></rss>
