"What we face is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country."

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Roger Cohen writes about why the west's view on Iran is misguided.

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Fazal Fazlin has an American story. Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, he came to the United States in 1969 with an engineering degree and little else. Now he lives on a five-acre estate in the waterfront mansion that once belonged to Nelson Poynter, luminary of the newspaper business.

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I was talking to a banker friend, and he told me the "unraveling" could go on for ages. I thought he meant the unwinding of all the leverage that had inflated everything from the price of stocks to the price of homes.

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What is it with plumbers, anyway? Before Joe the Plumber, the latest celebrity of the U.S. presidential campaign, we had the Polish plumber, star of the 2005 French referendum that sent a much-heralded European Union constitution into the toilet.

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Back when he was vice president, Dan Quayle noted that: "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

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In 1970, in the midst of the longest bear market since World War II, President Richard Nixon declared: "Frankly, if I had any money, I'd be buying stocks right now."

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The New York Times Palin-Bashing Obsession Continues: Cohen Chimes In

Already since Sunday The New York Times has given me ample ammunition on which to conclude that their agenda is firmly, as Steve Schmidt said, 150% behind Obama. And that's probably under-estimating the percentage.

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World leaders converge on a battered New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly and my advice to them is: think Damien Hirst.

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Yes, folks, the cash is elsewhere. Asians have been saving rather than spending. Their consumers are in better shape, as are their banks. The China Investment Corp.

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Roger Cohen laments what the American nation is quickly becoming, and what it could have been. Whatever happened to Lincoln's "last, best hope?"

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Barack Obama has already won the U.S. election by a landslide. In Europe, that is. Polls show the French putting the first African-American in the White House with 86 percent backing.

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Cohen writes: A few decades back, when we were young, Joni Mitchell sang of "sitting in a park in Paris, France" but dreaming of California because "I wouldn't want to stay here; it's too old and cold and settled in its ways here."

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Roger Cohen writes: There are many strands to the annus mirabilis of 1968 — the Prague Spring, the Paris barricades, Flower Power — but all involved an uprising against a stifling postwar order.

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Roger Cohen writes: More than any other factor, it has been Barack Obama's grasp of the central place of Internet-driven social networking that has propelled his campaign for the Democratic nomination into a seemingly unassailable lead over Hillary Clinton.

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For a long time the core question about China has been whether a dictatorship with an open market economy can resist its internal contradictions. The core question now is how you federalize a diverse society under one-party control.

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Something is stirring in the U.S.A.. Even in this depressed corner of the country, a place where trains no longer stop and poor families get water from shallow wells, you feel it. A political campaign has become a movement with Barack Obama at its head.

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[Excerpted from Roger Cohen's column:]

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"Good evening, this is Katie Couric. I'll be anchoring our Decision 2008 coverage tonight, as the world elects the next President of the United States.

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