by Laurence
Bill Clinton’s classmate looks at the geopolitics of the Kyrgyz revolution:
On a large enough map, Iraq and Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan all look close enough for some common effect to be plausible. On a large enough map, it is deceptively easy to make connections between a new American airbase in the Russian back yard of Central [...]
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by Laurence
Speaking of London, England reminds us that Allan Massie favorably reviews Justin Marozzi’s new biography of Amir Timur in the August 28th issue of The Spectator:
‘We are very proud of Amir Temur,’ the Uzbek ambassador to the Court of St James’s told Justin Marozzi. ‘We do not call him Tamerlane.’ Nevertheless this [...]
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