I always think Turkey an interesting case, as a bellwether of democracy and religion. It has some of the characteristics of what might be described as a fundamentally religious culture, but also had … (View Post)

An excellent thread header. The status of the middle and far east in the 1960's also deserves much more attention in general. A slightly more positive sign today is that the Taliban seem quite k… (View Post)

It's definitely not all on Biden unless one is almost absurdly partisan. (View Post)

Ofcourse we can't know hypothetically, but the problem is these are all things Trump would do - in fact they've got Trumpian hallmarks all over them, as he first set the paramaters of the p… (View Post)

They hate IS, in the typical way of splits between fanatics, but also, from what I've read today, in the more hopeful possibility that some of the current taliban leadership think they were too … (View Post)