Today, on Anderson Cooper’s Blog site I read this comment from Christiane Amanpour: President Obama’s biggest challenge will be Afghanistan and Pakistan. He wants to beat back the militants, but all the U.S. commanders and officers I have talked to say that cannot be done by bombs and bullets alone. It must happen in tandem [...]
Archive for May 21, 2009
Nation building? Forget it. Not in our power.
May 21, 2009Victor Hugo, le 21 août 1849
May 21, 2009Le 21 août 1849, un congrès de la paix se réunit a Paris. Vicor Hugo en était le président et il y fit un discours où le grand poète se montre aussi un grand prophète. En voici la partie la plus célèbre: Un jour viendra où les armes vous tomberont des mains, à vous aussi [...]
The United States and Russia, is it over between them?
May 21, 2009[from everything2.com] Alexis de Tocqueville only spent one year in the United States before he wrote “Democracy in America” (1835), which is still one of the best books about that country. The last page of the first volume describes the future evolution of the Russians and the Americans. The English translation is mine, so don’t [...]
