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Linda,

I wasn't going to bring up how badly the British screwed up in the 
region - the French didn't do so hot either. But since you brought it up 
- yep we are paying for the failures of the past.

Truman

Linda Marins wrote:
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> Funny (actually not so funny):  I'm just about finished re-reading
> /The Far Pavillions/; the last 300 pages of which is taken up
> with incidents in the story of the 19th century struggle between
> Great Britain and Tsarist Russia to control Afghanistan.
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> In some ways it is appalling the degree to which the USofA
> has ended up heir to the worst blunders of the British Empire...
> and keeps re-enacting them.
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> I wish Turner Classic Movies would air /Khartoum/.  To my
> knowledge, no cable channel has done so since the beginning
> of the Iraq war.  The Neo-Cons would do well to take
> a lesson from the great debate between Gladstone and Disraeli.
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> Well, at least Steph didn't break her neck!
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> Linda Marins
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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a 
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also 
into you.”  Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil


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