Adrian Buck’s Reviews > Prisoners of Geography > Status Update

...or a North Korean magnification of the sort of emotional outbursts we saw in the UK after the death Princess Diana. - interesting comparision :D

only some of the Sunni Iraqi tribes will support jihadist aims, and even then only to achieve their own aims.

The Islamists hark back to a golden age when Islam ruled an empire and was at the cutting edge of technology, art, medicine and government. - Not repression and retribution?

Water wars are considered to be among the coming conflicts this century. And [Ethiopia-Egypt] is one to watch.

who cannot be deported because of rulings from the European Court of Justice. - ECHR, surely?

"The UK ... always engaged in ensuring that no power greater than it will rise in Europe" - Alas, no more!

When the Cold War ended, so did the cheques. But Greece kept spending.

The problem is that there is too little... [agricultural land]... to allow Greece to ... develop more than a handful of areas containing highly educated, highly skilled and technologically advanced populations - how come Greece was historical able to do so?