Happy New Year!
I'm starting what I'll call a "3-D blog" to see if I can encourage friends to meet in the online virtual world of Second Life to discuss foreign policy news and views. It's a great way to interact, show content, multi-task, and save on travel costs! Get started at secondlife.com, put me down as your referral, and email me for help as it can be a bit daunting getting started if you are not used to working avatars.
Barbara Crossette has an interesting interview in the Nation with the UN's greatest go-to man, Lakhdar Brahimi. She quotes him as saying:
Somebody told me--I don't know if this is true or not--that Yeltsin, when he took over and was very close to the Americans, thought of dissolving the Communist Party. And the Americans told him, You're crazy. Don't do that. That's the state. And yet, they go to Iraq and they dissolve the army, which was part of the system. And the Baath party.
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