Sunday, January 4th, 2004
THE RETURN OF ZENPUNDIT
It was good to be off but it’s better to be back.
THE UNIVERSITIES OF JIHAD
A Foreign Policy magazine article on the Madrassa problem. 750,000 young men passed through Pakistan’s Islamist equivalent of SS Order castles this year alone. mostly Saudi funding has opened 14,000 of these schools in Indonesia. Some alternative educational path that is not militantly hostile to secularism, women, peace and the West needs to be considered for the poor of these nations. Or at least a comparable counterbalance.
GEORGIA ON MY MIND…AND AZERBAIJAN…AND ARMENIA…
Interesting analytical article. I think the author seriously undersetimates the depth to which Putin has aligned himself strategically with the Bush administration as he has soldified his own rule over Russia but it’s worth reading for the details.
GOOD NEW YORKER ARTICLE ON AL QAIDA
Found it on Milt’s File today.
QUICKIE EXAMPLE WHY THE ” HATE-BUSH ” LEFT WILL COST THE DEMOCRATS THE ELECTION:
Via Drudge. Second time he’s nailed these Moveon.org characters for the nasty extremists that they are.