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21st Century Diplomacy
Understandably we need to foster a strong relationship with India, but is it wise to do so at the cost of our relationship with Pakiston, tenuous as it may be? Ask that same question about Russia and or China as well. I hate to sit on the fence, but Russia and China are on the UN Security Committee, Pakistan is instrumental in our efforts in ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Willard4101 on December 10, 2008
The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008
Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking
It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 2008