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Condi Fishing in Troubled WatersThe Best Class I Ever HadSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice completed her visit to Central Asia and Afghanistan last week. This is a tough neighborhood, which plays a key role in the forthcoming global game between the West and the rest.The U.S. has growing geopolitical competition in the region from Russia, China and the global Islamist movement. Ms. Rice is now playing the 21st Century version of the "Great Game" in which, 100 years ago, the British Empire and Czarist Russia competed over the heartland of Eurasia.What a phrase can evoke - "The Great Game" - recalling the not always glorious days of Kipling and Victoria:
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. Go, go, go like a soldier?So-oldier of the Queen!The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I offer my most recent column in the Aberdeen American News. The best class I ever had was the result of a series of accidents compounded by mistakes.It was an accident that the old Jonesboro High School, a classical building...GOP spending faster than the Dems
From Jane Chastain: The revolt in the Republican ranks over the nomination of Harriett Miers to the Supreme Court is extremely significant. For the first time since George W. Bush was elected president, the leading conservative watchdog groups, even many...The Saddam Trial
ssAnne Applebaum, author of Gulag, has a great piece in the Washington Post contrasting the trial of Saddam Hussein with the Nuremburg trials in Germany following World War II. Excerpt:Yet Nuremberg was, in retrospect, a huge success, and as the...Fire Thunder
Argus Leader:Oglala Sioux Tribe President Cecilia Fire Thunder will face the second call for her impeachment Tuesday when the tribal council hears a complaint filed by William Birdnecklace Tate of Manderson. Tate, who was the tribe's utilities financial manager from...Trouble In Russia
Mark Steyn notes the troubling confluence of a declining Russia along with a rising population of militant Muslims in the Russian Federation. The Russians couldn't hold on to Eastern Europe. They couldn't hold on to Central Asia. Why would they...George Bush Is the Devil, Etc.
Let the Saddam trial circus begin! Today saw an innocent plea, a long speech, and a scuffle with guards. A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of murder and torture as his long-awaited trial began Wednesday with the one-time...If Taiwan's A Rockin' ...
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