<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - World Opinion </title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/columns/worldopinion?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><description>World Opinion </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[Three Ways of Looking at a Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5760-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5760-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The conservatism of Pope Benedict XVI is playing very differently around the world.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan-China Fight Over History Rooted in the Future]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63802-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63802-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's not just about history textbooks. Anti-Japanese riots in China are not only due to enduring memories of Japanese imperial rule in the early 20th century, say online commentators, but also stem from concerns about the future ambitions of both countries' governments.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cuban Terror Suspect Sets Off Propaganda Battle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52413-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52413-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's the kind of propaganda duel that Fidel Castro relishes. As the United States seeks approval this week of a U.N. resolution focusing on Cuba's human rights record, the Cuban communist leader has responded by charging that the  United States is harboring a Cuban exile who, according to The Post and others,  is linked to a series of terror attacks against Cuban targets.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bolton the Unpopular]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44653-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44653-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz gets good press by comparison. <br>That might be the simplest way to summarize international online media reaction to John Bolton, President Bush's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mideast Adversaries Touched by John Paul II]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31820-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31820-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of Pope John Paul II's most striking accomplishments was his ability to transcend the conventional wisdom of war and politics that "the friend of my enemy is my enemy"]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopes for a Third World Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27274-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27274-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Amid the worldwide eulogies for Pope John Paul II runs an undercurrent of desire for change inthe Catholic Church.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annan Survives -- But Will U.N. Reform?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13658-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13658-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Embattled United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is "not out of the woods yet," says the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Rueful-Annan-cleared-of-role-in-sons-sins/2005/03/30/1111862468697.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a>. Many online commentators agree. Not only is Annan's job tenure in danger, they say, so is his recently announced agenda for reforming the international body.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springtime for Hezbollah (and Hamas)]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7641-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7641-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Guess who's flourishing in the Arab spring?<br>While Washington hails advances for democracy in the Middle East, two of the chief beneficiaries are Hezbollah and Hamas, hard-line foes of U.S. Mideast policy. Both the Shiite political party/militia of Lebanon and the Islamic network in ...]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Schiavo Debate, the Face of America]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62538-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62538-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The <a href="http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1268&storyid=2856752">Daily Telegraph</a> of Australia calls it "The right-to- die case gripping America." The Terri Schiavo case is also gripping the rest of the Western world.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfowitz's Third World Critics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54695-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54695-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venezuela's 'Anti-Bush' Fears Assassination]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41572-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41572-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez charged last month that the United States was developing plans to assassinate him, the U.S. State Department rejected the charge as "wild."]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courting the Dragon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35971-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35971-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With China talking tough on Taiwan, the U.S. allies in the region are talking nice to Beijing.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold the Praise and Pass the Nuance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21167-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21167-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Credit President Bush? Not so fast, say some international online pundits.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Bush Right?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14590-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14590-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In countries where President Bush and his policies are deeply unpopular, online commentators are starting to think the unthinkable.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Branding of Lebanon's 'Revolution']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1911-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1911-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On the streets of Beirut, they call it the "intifada for independence." In the corridors of Washington, they prefer to call it the "Cedar Revolution."]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lebanon Putting the Squeeze on Syria]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62427-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62427-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["The noose is tightening around Syria." So wrote columnist Musa Keilani in the <a href="http://www.jordantimes.com/sun/opinion/opinion2.htm">Jordan Times</a> on Sunday. A day later,  Lebanon's pro-Syrian government resigned -- and the noose got a little tighter/]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Gets Stoned by the World Media]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48042-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48042-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush all but admits to illicit drug use for the first time. Overseas it's the stuff of headlines. At home, the U.S. press has generally downplayed the story.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington's Waning Influence in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43673-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43673-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The haggling that culminated in the selection of Interim Vice President Ibraham Jafari as the Shiite candidate to be Iraq's next prime minister illustrates the limits of Washington's influence over the country's new government.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Killed Rafiq Hariri?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29296-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29296-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_world/columns/worldopinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:09:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The assassins may have had sophisticated electronic gear. They knew former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri's motorcade was traveling along Beirut's fashionable Corniche seafront. They had 600 pounds of explosives.]]></description><author> Jefferson Morley</author></item></channel></rss>
