H.D.S. Greenway

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H.D.S. Greenway has been a journalist for 50 years and recently retired from the Boston Globe after a distinguished career, most recently as its editorial page editor. He continues to write a column that appears regularly in the Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune. He joined the Boston Globe to become foreign and national editor, in charge of the Globe’s Washington bureau and tasked with building a foreign news service. He created bureaus in London, Tokyo, Canada, Moscow, Latin America and Jerusalem. During his long career, Greenway has covered conflicts in Indochina, Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan, Burma, Central America, Bosnia and Croatia. After service in the U.S. Navy, Greenway worked for the Time-Life News Service in Oxford, London, Washington, Boston, Saigon, Bangkok, the United Nations and Hong Kong. He joined the Washington Post and returned to Hong Kong, reporting from Saigon, Phnom Penh, and Laos until the final evacuation of Americans. He then covered the Middle East and Iran, based in Jerusalem. Greenway was wounded in Vietnam and awarded a Bronze Star with Valor by the U.S. Marine Corps. He was educated at Yale and Oxford, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

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Analysis: The "Great War" is often overshadowed by World War II and later wars.

Why World War I is so often forgotten in America

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What we can learn from the Great War and the 'Petty Peace that followed'

A solution for the East China Sea

A solution for the East China Sea

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Recalling monsters of the past, Germans find US spying repugnant

Recalling monsters of the past, Germans find US spying repugnant
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Commentary: It is a modern symbol of arbitrary power that ignores due process and the rule of law.

Louis XIV, keeper of France’s infamous prisons, would have understood Guantanamo

An election in paradise may herald a new Pacific nation

Commentary: French Polynesian independence from France would end subsidies.

An election in paradise may herald a new Pacific nation

Is this election really all about race and national identity?

Many see Obama’s policies of inclusion as undermining whites’ view of citizenship.

Is this election really all about race and national identity?

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Commentary: The US could lose credibility over a dispute among China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Taiwan in the South China Sea.

What should the US do in the South China Sea?

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The current strategy has parallels to the self-deception of US generals in Vietnam.

Finding the exit in Afghanistan

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Commentary: Mitt Romney has talked tough in the primaries, but more moderation is urged by party elders.

Do Republicans really want a belligerent foreign policy?

The Falklands War and other global gaffes

Commentary: How Obama’s leadership could thwart a future war.

The Falklands War and other global gaffes

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Obama and Cameron stand together in Washington on Argentina and Afghanistan.

US and UK: Special relationship is alive and well

To bomb or not to bomb Iran

Once again, there is a very real possibility of war against another Muslim country, this time it's Iran.

To bomb or not to bomb Iran

It's the occupation, not just the Quran burnings

The Quran-burning protests show how bitterly Afghans resent the US military occupiers.

It's the occupation, not just the Quran burnings