On Friday, Nikolai Rurua, head of the Georgian Defense commission announced that Georgia’s current 850-strong Iraq contingent will be expanded, bringing the total to 2,000 Georgian boots on Iraqi ground in 2007. The deployment is intended to last around a year. Rurua also announced a smaller surge in Georgian presence in Afghanistan. With refreshing earnestness, Rurua laid out the logic behind the move: “Our strategic partner needs help. This is why we are doing this.” He described the additional deployment as “a form of political support for the United States.” In fact, it would have been hard to imagine tiny [...]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — On Friday, as President Bush’s five-nation tour came to its stop in Uruguay, I took the 29 bus from San Telmo to the stadium Ferro, arriving around six. First we heard the drums. Then we saw the rows of school buses used to move demonstrators around the city. Then, as the low roar of the stadium grew, thousands of flyers littered the street: “Viva Hugo Chavez.” “Afuera Bush.”By six oclock, Hugo Chavez’s Argentine anti-Bush rally was pounding with some 32,000 drum-banging, flag-waving leftists. They were dispatched to the scene with what several activists told me was [...]
The Commentary Week in Review is posted on the blog every Friday.Drawing from more than two dozen English-language news outletsworldwide, the column highlights a handful of the week’s notableop-eds.The price of truth continues to rise. Bush should be thinking Brazil, Brazil, Brazil. Egypt could soon end up run by the Muslim Brotherhood. Sunni Muslims aren’t going to buy U.S. claims that Iran is out to get them. The African Union should be done away with. And don’t blame China for the currently plunging world markets. Coming on the heels of reports that Russian journalist Ivan Safronov was working on a [...]
