A little score keeping. No surprises, but some helpful guideposts:
1. Rice’s Diplomatic Outreach to Iran: Right Zionists… very upset; Right Arabist establishment… quite delighted.
2. Cheney’s visit to Pakistan: definitely looking like a crackdown on the Taliban (about which I was initially skeptical). There are some signs that Russia and the US are both competing for the loyalty of the so-called “Tajik clique” that currently “governs” Afghanistan.
3. A pro-Shiite Tilt in Iraq: more howls of protest from the pro-Sunni political elite.
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