A World Turned Upside Down

wall street journal ^ | 10/12/05 | By RUSSELL SEITZ

[rang1995]

A World Turned Upside Down

By RUSSELL SEITZ October 12, 2005; Page A16

When Kipling was a cub reporter in Lahore, the area struck by Saturday's earthquake was a blank on the map separating British India from the "Independent Khanates of Chinese Turkistan." Washington scarcely cared if the Victorian Empire needed a weapon of mass destruction called the Maxim gun to deter hotheads along the Northwest Frontier, for it was a long way from anywhere. Now America's concerns are more ecumenical and acute: Pakistan's 1998 bomb test conjoined the world's three great monotheistic religions in a nuclear trinity (to say nothing of the polytheistic Hindus nearby, with their own nuclear saga).

[rang1995]

seems the bad guys may have lost one!

[denydenydeny]

I assume this is about the Kyrgyzstan announcement from yesterday. The site is forbidden to nonsubscribers and there is no bugmenot login for it.

[BenLurkin]

"Now America's concerns are more ecumenical and acute"

Effete nonsense.