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World Affairs Quiz: Where have 20,000 people been killed in the past few months? (w poll)

by: GoldsteinGoneWild

Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 17:15:26 PM EDT

(Well worth a read! - promoted by David)

You'll learn that and much more in this interview with the smartest man in the world.

Not to be confused with the Dos Equis guy. Or Bill Belichick.

*You'll learn why Obama fired the general in Afghanistan and brought in the new guy.

*You'll learn the price that Russia wants in exchange for Obama's request that they help him on Iran.

*You'll learn what China's been up to while we have been focused on Iraq and Afghanistan.

Best read I've had in a while! Free via the internets.

GoldsteinGoneWild :: World Affairs Quiz: Where have 20,000 people been killed in the past few months? (w poll)

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North "I am honestly crazy, not kidding" Korea
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World Affairs Quiz: Where have 20,000 people been killed in the past few months? (w poll) | 5 comments

Excellent article. Kaplan knows what he is talking about (0.00 / 0)

re Russia.

by: Edgarthearmenian @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 21:16:23 PM CDT

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"The smartest man in the world." Bizzaro World, that is. (6.00 / 1)

Kaplan may be convinced he is the smartest man in the world, I'll give you that. In general, however, his ramblings are superficialities based on a few quick observations and little real understanding, in my opinion. His confident assertions about Sri Lanka, drawn from a short visit to one of the world's most ancient societies and summing it up as a new Cold War battlefield, are a case in point. A few comments about Mr. Kaplan one does well to bear in mind (you can find other views at the link):

"Kaplan, over his career, appears to have become someone who is too fond of war. "It could be said," he has written, "that occasional small wars and occupations are good for us." He's expanded on this topic: those "occasional wars" are "evidence of humanity." This is because "peaceful times are also superficial times."" -- David Lipsky
"If Kaplan is a romantic, he is also a populist and a reactionary." -- Andrew J. Bacevich
"This is breathtaking. Here is a serious writer in 2005 admiring the Indian wars, which in their brutality brought about the end of an entire American civilization." -- David Rieff

The thinking man's neocon.

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by: Bob Neer @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 22:37:38 PM CDT

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Bob, you mean you are not a fan of (0.00 / 0)

P.J. O'Roarke (Give War a Chance)either?

by: Edgarthearmenian @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 14:23:33 PM CDT

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Robert Kaplan is EXTREMELY SMART! (6.00 / 1)

Before the Iraq War, he advocated for it along with Paul Wolfowitz and Fareed Zakaria, and then, when it became unpopular, Kaplan was smart enough to whitewash the account of his pro-war stance. That's smart. That's how you play the game... with the lives of American soldiers and Marines.

by: joeltpatterson @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 21:01:02 PM CDT

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I was looking for that... (0.00 / 0)

... link when this post first went up. Thanks.

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

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