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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Recommended reading…
… at the Brussels Journal.
Very interesting, unsettling piece.
Edit 04/19 9:22am EST:“Another factor in the dumb-show called “Bringing Democracy to the Middle East” seems to be that our leadership has become, shall we say, less than inspiring and more like Monty Hall emceeing “Let’s Make A Deal” with contestants and a studio audience packed with crazed […]
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Some perspective on China and Russia
You’ll recall that, in last week’s post on Iran, I mentioned the intractability of these two countries on the UN Security Council:
“Impose crippling sanctions. This can only be done with the approval of the UN Security Council’s five permanent members - of which Russia and China comprise two seats.”
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“It isn’t too much of a stretch […]
