Pakistan

Generation Change

27 December 2004 Generation Change By Gwynne Dyer The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a new and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow. Cyril Connolly, “The Unquiet Grave,” 1945 That’s history for you. King Lear was a striking …

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Pakistan

1 March 2004 Blowing Up Pakistan By Gwynne Dyer “We’re going to get our troops inside Pakistan in return for not forcing Musharraf to deal with Khan,” said a former senior US intelligence official quoted in Seymour Hersh’s article on US-Pakistan relations in the most recent issue of ‘New Yorker’ magazine. It’s a perfectly balanced …

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Two Years On: The Score

OOPS! I LEFT THE LAST TERRORIST ATTACK IN JAKARTA OUT. PLEASE USE THE REVISED VERSION BELOW 7 September 2003 Two Years On: The Score By Gwynne Dyer Two years on, September 11th is still a raw anniversary for most Americans, who cannot forget the terrible scenes in lower Manhattan as three thousand of their fellow-citizens …

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Muslim Stereotypes

17 August 2003 All The News That Fits The Stereotype By Gwynne Dyer Sitting in Cairo in a flat borrowed from a friend. Turn on the TV and catch the news on BBC World: six stories in fifteen minutes. Iraqi guerillas blow up a couple of pipelines. European hostages released by Muslim guerillas in Mali. …

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The Question of Pakistan

16 February 2003 The Question of Pakistan By Gwynne Dyer When the National Security Council does the worst-case analysis in a US attack on Iraq, what do its members tell themselves about Pakistan? You know, the world’s second-biggest Muslim country, the one with the nuclear weapons. Do they ever worry that the backlash elsewhere against …

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