Month: January 2005
Freedom of enterprise, anyway, especially when your enterprise is heroin. Seen from the air, the Margo desert, which sprawls across the far southwestern corner of Afghanistan toward the borders with Iran.
This is, er, a problem: 200,000 INSURGENTS?: According to Iyad Allawi's intelligence chief, General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, the Sunni insurgency consists of 200,000 fighters, of which 40,000 are a hard core..
Very nice portrait of Sam Reed, our Secretary of State and one of a small and declining number of sensible, moderate Republicans in Washington State in today's Seattle Times. Note that.
Fascinating article on the BBC. Franco was neither an idiot nor an ideologue. He had two interests in World War II; staying alive and getting Gibraltar. Openly siding with the.