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Ah, Obama is getting "advice" on Afghanistan from mothers of soldiers who died there.
Well, fuzzy thinking will get you the Oprah vote.

I am bemused at the Eurocentric discussions about Afghanistan...uh, fellahs, it is part of Asia...

But the acidtongues Spengler at the Asian Times summarizes the problem thus.

The region is full of geopolitical mines. To be name some of them:
# India can't let the fundamentalist side of the Pakistani military take power without responding.
# Iran can't let Pakistan's Sunnis crush the 20% Shi'ite minority.
# Israel can't allow for the possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons.
# Saudi Arabia can't let Iran dominate Iraq.
# Turkey can't let Iraq's Kurds form an independent state.
# China can't let Turkey agitate among the 100 million Muslim ethnic Turks within its borders.

Without America to mediate, scold and restrain, each of the small powers in the region has no choice but to test its strength against the others.

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Confessions of a cultural Dropout.

more HERE.

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I guess it's okay to discriminate, as long it's against hard working Asians.

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Near Death experience: Real or imagined?

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Another (adult) stem cell triumph: Growing facial bones from one's own fat.
They took dead donor bone and injected the stem cells to make it live bone, then covered the bone with periosteum from his leg...

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