Council on Foreign Relations

Australian

• Counterterrorism: Mervyn Bendle of James Cook University writes that Australia is fortunate that it has rigorous counterterrorism laws as well as competent and energetic security agencies.  Despite the criticism that such laws and agencies attract, the Mumbai atrocity shows why they are necessary, he says.

Boston Globe

• Ted Kennedy: Columnist James Carroll welcomes the decision by Harvard University to offer an honorary degree to Senator Ted Kennedy. He has now established a legacy to which every American is heir, and of which, before the world, every American can be proud, he writes.

Business Daily (Kenya)

• Food Shortage: In an editorial, the paper calls on the Kenyan government to take action against food shortages and rising prices. If it doesn't, it will be risking the stability of the nation, it says.

Christian Science Monitor

• India-Pakistan: In an editorial, the paper counsels against an overreaction by India and Pakistan to last week's events in Mumbai. The region needs a broad response that rises above ethnic or religious nationalism to face the common enemy of terrorism, it says.

Daily Star (Lebanon)

• U.S. and the Middle East: Gamal Soltan of the American University in Cairo says you don't need to be a cynic to curb your expectations of an incoming U.S. president regarding the Middle East. Peoples and governments in the region have learned to keep their expectations low when it comes to American foreign policy.

Daily Telegraph

• Nuclear Pakistan: In an editorial, the paper writes of its concern over the nuclear threat that it says now hangs over the Indian subcontinent. It says Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari does not have the influence to control civilian and military grumblings that his predecessor Pervez Musharraf did.

Daily Times (Pakistan)

• India Tensions: In an editorial, the paper says the escalating bad blood between Pakistan and India in the wake of the Mumbai attacks is almost Pavlovian in its predictability.

Financial Times

• Mumbai Attacks: In an editorial, the paper says the first imperative after the Mumbai attacks is to ensure that this brazen and bloody raid on India's most open city does not escalate into confrontation with Pakistan, the presumed origin of the attackers.
• Thai Damage: In a further editorial, on Thailand, the paper says the alliance of middle-class Thais, whose supporters have occupied both of Bangkok's airports and reduced the elected government to working out of a northern city, threatens lasting damage to the country's economy and its fragile institutions.
• Financial Crisis: Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, writes that by taking a macro-prudential approach to capital and committing to continuously open markets, we can both limit the downturn and build a more resilient financial system.

Globe and Mail (Canada)

• Obama's Choices: In an editorial, the paper defends Barack Obama in his choice so far of top-level advisers. He has not betrayed his promise of change by appointing Washington veterans, it says.

Guardian

• India Fears: In an editorial, the paper says there is great international anxiety about the strain the Mumbai attacks will put on the fragile relations between India and its similarly nuclear-armed neighbor, Pakistan.
• Hindu-Muslim Relations: Writer and journalist Misha Glenny writes that the Mumbai attacks were not about global jihad. The roots of this nightmarish event, he says, are to be found in the deterioration in relations between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai and India since the late 1980s, and in regional relations between India and Pakistan.

Haaretz

• India's Response: In an editorial, the paper expresses concern that Israeli commentators who were quick to criticise the response of the Indian security forces in Mumbai are liable to do serious damage to a vital strategic relationship.

Independent (UK)

• Mumbai Terrorists: Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes that India and Pakistan were at last trying to rebuild trust gave pause for cautious hope. The Mumbai terrorists shattered all that and once more, we are lost in misinformation and misapprehension, she says.
• Indian Government: In an editorial, the paper says it is worth remembering that, whatever the failings of the authorities in this particular case, it is unrealistic to expect India's government to stop every murderous-minded terrorist before they strike.

Indian Express

• Mumbai Infrastructure: In an editorial, the paper casts doubt on Mumbai's claim to be a global city. The response to the attacks make that woefully clear, it says, citing ill-armed police and badly-protected fire fighters. Mumbai simply doesn't have the infrastructure to match its profile, it concludes.

International Herald Tribune

• Mumbai Carnage: In an editorial, the paper says there is a grave danger that the carnage in Mumbai could provoke much higher levels of violence across a wide arc of South Asia.
• Helping Mumbai: Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City, writes that if the rest of the world wants to help Mumbai, it should run toward the explosion. It should fly there and spend money, he says.

New York Times

• Kashmir Future: In an editorial, it says Washington's most important role after the Mumbai attacks will be to urge the Indians and Pakistanis to step back from the brink. The next administration will then have to move quickly to encourage serious negotiations over the future of Kashmir and genuine cooperation to defeat extremists.
• Janet Napolitano: In a further editorial, the paper comments on rumors that Barack Obama is to appoint the Arizona governor Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary, and says it would be a relief to see the job go to someone with a solid understanding of immigration and all its complexities.
• Fiscal Expansion: Op-ed Columnist Paul Krugman pushes the case for a very large fiscal expansion to keep the economy from going into free fall. He says those that worry about the burden of budget deficits on future generations have it all wrong.

Sydney Morning Herald

• Mumbai Massacre: Columnist Paul Sheehan writes the Mumbai attacks were an attempt to break the uneasy detente between India and Pakistan, and between Hindus and Muslims inside India. As of today, it has been a failure, and must continue to be treated as one, he says.

Times of India

• Islamabad Accountable: In an editorial, the paper says even if one presumes that elements in the Pakistani government are not involved, evidence points to Pakistani soil being used to mount these attacks on India. Islamabad can't escape without accounting for this, it says.

Times of London

• India-Pakistan Tensions: Chief Foreign Commentator Bronwen Maddox writes that it would be folly, on all sides, if the Mumbai attacks were allowed to inflame the old dispute over the Kashmir border. If India and Pakistan now ramp up hostilities, it will be an act of self-indulgence, on each side, that distracts them from fighting terrorism, she says.

Wall Street Journal

• Car Makers: In an editorial, the paper considers the car makers in the United States, who, in contrast to the "Big Three", are gaining market share and adjusting amid the sales slump, without seeking a cent from the government.
• Digital Terror: Columnist L. Gordon Crovitz, noting the use of Blackberrys by the Mumbai attackers, says that the U.S. efforts to prevent terrorism are still in an analog-era time warp.

Washington Post

• Obama's First Year: Op-ed Columnist Robert Samuelson advises Barack Obama to concentrate for his first year on stabilizing the economy while patiently laying the groundwork for more far-reaching proposals.
• Russia And Georgia: Op-ed Columnist Jackson Diehl comments on Barack Obama's coming difficulties in dealing with Russia and Georgia. Preserving post-war, post-panic Georgia will probably require an entirely new level of American commitment, he says.
• Chinese Leadership: CFR Senior Fellow Elizabeth Economy comments that while the world has come to China's door seeking leadership in the midst of a global financial crisis, China's leaders have largely kept the door shut.

Washington Times

• Cluster Bombs: In an editorial, the paper defends the United States' retention of cluster bombs as a weapon of war. It is not in America's best interest to agree in advance to Marquis of Queensberry rules in a cutthroat world, it says.