<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Jim Hoagland</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/columns/hoaglandjim?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><description>Jim Hoagland</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[A Shifting Focus on Terrorism]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10695-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10695-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A new look for President Bush's global war on terrorism sits atop Condoleezza Rice's early to-do list at the State Department. Expect fairly soon some useful new handles on the problem and a more coherent overall strategy to guide the struggle that the bureaucracy abbreviates as GWOT.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power Plays in Asia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6177-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6177-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  China's violent verbal assault on Japan does not spin out of the past but rather out of the future. Complaints about war crimes and history books are so many fig leaves. The driving force in this dangerous dispute is power politics in Asia.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hammering the Wrong Nails]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57778-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57778-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Richard A. Posner does not simply point to feet of clay. He attacks them with hammer, tongs and clarity of insight when it comes to the dangers of the ragged overhaul of U.S. intelligence that Congress and the Bush administration now pursue.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balancing Act in Gaza]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51670-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51670-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Gaza Strip is now the pivot for the hopes of a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, President Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared in unison the other day. But to say this is to ask an elephant to balance on a peanut.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Longer Your Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38710-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38710-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Dear Saddam,<br>Yes, it has been a long time since I wrote. But then you were so hard to find for a while. And since you surfaced  --  in your case the word has real meaning  --  we have both been so busy. So let's calm down and catch up.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Backlash Paradox]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32734-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32734-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The 21st century announces itself as an era of backlash and paradox. This owes much to an uneasily shifting equilibrium between religion and politics, a disturbed equilibrium that was on display this week in capitals as dissimilar as Rome, Baghdad, Jerusalem and Washington.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping  Covenant With Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20058-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20058-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Iraq is not yet free of Saddam Hussein or Jerry Bremer. The political ghosts of the murderous dictator and the well-meaning U.S. administrator stroll through Baghdad's corridors of stalemated power two years after liberation.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[De Gaulle's Tattered Legacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14400-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14400-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Charles de Gaulle bequeathed the French  two big ideas and the atomic bomb to see them  through the sad national duty of surviving without him. The bomb is still there and probably always will be. The ideas may not be as resilient. They face severe challenge this spring.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing Both Sides in Jordan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2218-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2218-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Pop quiz: Which Arab ruler is to George W. Bush as Yasser Arafat was to Bill Clinton?]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiananmen's Legacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61695-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61695-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Nearly 16 amazing years have passed since Chinese soldiers slaughtered thousands of their fellow citizens protesting corruption and misrule. The Soviet empire, wars in the Balkans and in Iraq, and a flood of dot-com billionaires and paupers have come and/or gone in that busy time.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Bush, Personnel as Policy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48498-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48498-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   President Bush's second-term appointments confirm how important individual loyalty is to him. Even more than most, this president treats personnel matters as personal matters.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shunning Sinn Fein]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42188-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42188-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The Irish Republican Army has flashed a spotlight at an ideal moment on its own deeply ingrained criminality. The hard men of Northern Ireland have ensured that St. Patrick's Day 2005 cannot be confined to green beer, leprechauns, ethnic pride or political expediency.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reassessing  Putin]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28524-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28524-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Russian President Vladimir Putin's siege mentality  is deepening and pushing him to take an ever-harder line against neighbors and opponents. Western plans to moderate Putin's behavior through conciliation and engagement have failed. They should now be reassessed.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurturing The Beirut Spring]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22109-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22109-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Lebanon, when I lived there, was a simmering cauldron that I watched explode into vicious civil war in the spring of 1975. Thirty years have not dimmed my regard for the Lebanese people or my regret over their fate. Trusting their political instincts still comes hard, however.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tony Blair, Reflecting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8743-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8743-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   LONDON -- The war in Iraq has not set back the cause of using force to overthrow murderous dictators in the Middle East or elsewhere, says Tony Blair, one of the progenitors of the bold concept of humanitarian intervention.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Tony Blair, No Backing Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64394-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64394-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   LONDON -- The political price that Tony Blair pays at home for his enthusiastic partnership with President Bush in Iraq is made clear to a visitor who asks a London cabbie about the impending national election. "Oh, Vice President Blair will get back in," comes the sardonic reply.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignoring the Invisible Hand]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54742-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54742-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   LONDON -- For an American to make a British audience feel good about the year 1776 is quite a feat. But Alan Greenspan did it recently: He recalled to his listeners that Adam Smith invented modern economics in that year of intellectual as well as colonial revolution.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unheralded Revolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48685-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48685-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Look beyond the jockeying for jobs in Iraq's embryonic transitional government. Focus instead on the final results in that Arab country's matrix-breaking election. They reveal a little-publicized result that President Bush, feminist organizations and democracy advocates should be shouting from the rooftops.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Limits of Reconciliation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36624-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36624-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Halfway through a Gerhard Schroeder speech that was being scrutinized down to its last umlaut by a hall full of American diplomats, politicians and scribes, I scrawled a note to myself: Oblivious, stubborn or clairvoyant?]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste, Fraud and War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30957-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30957-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_world/columns/hoaglandjim</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   MUNICH -- United Nations officials conspire with Iraq's Baathist regime to split oil rake-offs. U.S. officials stuff millions of dollars into gunnysacks to pay bills they cannot possibly substantiate. Contractors pocket other millions and then argue in a U.S. court that they cannot be prosecuted: The money was Iraqi, not American.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item></channel></rss>
