[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Miss Marple]

This is a good article, and it gives me confidence that mamny of the people in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the administration have been looking far into the future.

It is so much better than the reactionary foreign policy we had for eight years.

Thanks for the article, Ivan.

[Capitalist Eric]

Nice catch!

The last line says it all... (((sigh)))

FReegards,

[xJones]

Every time I go to Washington - I returned from there this week - I find a seriousness and depth of thought about terror, the Middle East and the nature of power that, whether one agrees with it or not, is not matched by an alternative vision this side of the Atlantic.

It is amazing that Europe doesn't say anything about Libya chairing the UN Committee on Human Rights, or that Iraq will be heading the UN Committee on Disarmament starting in March. The French suck up to Mugabe, who is starving to death over half his country's population, but the UN doesn't say anything about that either. It's the Good Ship Lollipop and we're all supposed to sing along.

[onehipdad]

Is there a Hamid Karzai or even a Bebe Netanyahu handy to get the ball rolling?

[aculeus]

But if the conflict is between extremists who hate the West and want to destroy it and the political and cultural values that all European nations claim to share, why is it so wrong?

Why indeed?

Bump.