How many "stolen Presidential election" political prisoners do we have at present? What happened to their right to a fair and speedy trial? Who foxtrotting cares? I got my porn and popcorn, man.
A rather enthralling bit of reading suggested some time ago by our gracious host, facilitated then by another friend – who lent a copy of the out-of-print book – and sparked by several online conversations at the time originally led me to these ruminations. Peter Hopkirk’s masterful survey of “the struggle for Central Asia” The Great Game takes us from inter-tribal raids [ca. 711] to a conference table in St. Petersburg [in August, 1907] where representatives of a nearly-toppled Czarist regime and a cash-strapped England sign the “Anglo-Russian Convention” to bring this phase of “the Great Game” to a close.
{Kodansha World, 1992]
The book’s cast of larger-than-life rulers, adventurers, diplomats, and military men (sometimes rolled into one) has a sweep from perpendicular sand dunes to uncharted (until then) mountain passes blanketed in snow, to lavish palaces paid for by raids – and tribute…
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