Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1591
Russian navy to flex muscles in South America...;
...and renovate port in Mediterranean
Russian navy to flex muscles in South America...;
...and renovate port in Mediterranean
North Korea reverts to type;
Japanese jitters over Russia
It is now seven years after 9/11. The attack designed to change the world has done so, but not in ways its planners predicted, or any Americans anticipated. The United States had been on autopilot in the 1990s, expecting the world to evolve on its own, believing that progress would arrive as the result of historic forces that required no leadership, demanded no sacrifice. But nature abhors a vacuum, and into the void stepped a small group of ultra-violent radicals with a program of their own. Through a combination of methodical planning, strategic audaciousness and a bit of luck, they pulled off an attack that brought about the new world in a matter of hours.
Cheney praises Georgia, the end of the Soviet Union;
Russia considers playing Iran card
Democrats warm to Taiwan;
Water and waste in shoddy Olympic plans