Council on Foreign Relations

The Age (Australia)

• Blunder: In a column, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, writes that the U.S. has made a serious blunder by declaring the Caucasus, a region that is thousands of miles from the American continent, a sphere of its "national interest."

Arab News (Saudi Arabia)

• Never Again: In an editorial, the paper decries the latest evidence of resurgent neo-Nazi activity throughout Europe, which now focuses its vitriol not simply on Jews and gypsies, but on Muslims, black Africans, and Asians.

Boston Globe

• Diplomacy First: In an editorial the paper welcomes signs that President Bush intends to continue to pursue diplomatic means in persuading Iran to end its nuclear program but notes that help from Russia will be needed.

Business Daily(Kenya)

• Pure and Simple: Uneasy neighbors, suspicious trade partners. That captures the relationship between Tanzania on the one hand and Kenya and Uganda on the other, writes the paper in an editorial criticising Tanzania's nationalism.

Christian Science Monitor

• Quit Complaining: In an editorial, the paper says that gasoline is more affordable for American families now than it was in the days of the gas-guzzling muscle cars of the early 1960s.

Daily Star (Lebanon)

• Good Move: In an editorial, the paper writes that Lebanese President Michel Sleiman made a historic achievement in Damascus when he agreed with his counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, to establish formal diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Daily Telegraph

• Not Right: The paper writes that Poland and the three Baltic states rightly condemned French President Nicolas Sarkozy's mediation effort as failing to respect the territorial integrity of Georgia.

Daily Times (Pakistan)

• After Musharraf: In an editorial painting various scenarios of the departure of Pakistan's president the paper writes that the ecstasy produced by the ritual of immolating President Musharraf is going to wear off pretty quickly in the post-Musharraf era.

Financial Times

• Organic Royal: The heir to the British throne should be guided by science, not superstition. 'Let them eat organic shortbread' is no answer to rising food prices the paper writes in an editorial.
• Falling Short: In an editorial, the paper argues that the power-sharing formulas on offer at the Harare talks mediated by Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, have fallen short of the goal of giving Zimbabwe a clean break with the past.
• Lessons Learned: Professor Anatol Lieven writes that the Georgia crisis has taught us two lessons; Georgia will never now get South Ossetia and Abkhazia back, and the West should not make promises that it is unwilling or unable to fulfill.

Guardian

• Failed Policy: War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts. It's likely to be a taste of things to come writes columnist Seumas Milne.

Haaretz (Israel)

• Strange Twins: In an editorial, the paper says Israel must allow diplomatic efforts to move ahead, lower the tone of the military threat and understand that dialogue with Iran is essential to an attempt to reduce its military motivation.

Independent (UK)

• Leave It: The former director of the UK Anti-Drug Co-Ordination Unit Julian Critchley writes in a column that all the experts admit that we should legalize drugs since the illegality of drugs causes far more problems for society and the individual than it solves.

New York Times

• Price to Pay: In an editorial, the paper says that Europe and the United States must make clear to Moscow that Russia will pay a price, in diplomatic standing and economic relations.
• Technical Olympics: The Beijing Olympics are not just about athletic competition but also about technology and how it is shaping both the athletes' performance and the viewers' experience the paper writes in an editorial.
• Tibet's Turn: Columnist Nicholas Kristoff writes that it is now up to China to accept the Dalai Lama's visit this fall and engineer a deal to resolve Tibet's future.

Times of London

• Be Cautious: For all the superficial calm that had started enticing tourists back to Srinagar, Kashmir remains a tinderbox writes the paper in an editorial, adding that India must stand up for peace.

Wall Street Journal

• Get Tougher: Russia's rout of Georgia -- if allowed to stand unpunished -- will go a long way to showing the world that there is no price to be paid for flouting the civilized world order, the paper writes in an editorial.
• New World Order: When this crisis ends, Georgia will be either a model for a world that works or a world whose members do business with knives writes columnist Daniel Henningher.
• Bad Deal: In an editorial, the paper criticises the British for striking a deal with Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, essentially ceding him control over Basra and releasing some 120 militia regulars from custody.

Washington Post

• Carte Blanche: In a column, Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili writes that if the international community allows Russia to crush Gerogia's democratic, independent state, it will be giving carte blanche to authoritarian governments everywhere.
• Race Issue: In an editorial, the paper writes that while Russia ransacks Georgia, Washington's foreign policy sophisticates cluck and murmur that, after all, the Georgians should have known better than to chart an independent course.
• High Price: There's nothing to be done militarily in Georgia, writes columnist Charles Krauthammer, advocating instead that we alter Putin's cost-benefit calculations.

Washington Times

• Jaw Jaw: In an editorial the paper writes that as the world continues to watch the carnage taking place in Georgia, words will not stop the bombing and the violence. Only implementing the cease-fire will accomplish that.