If you read nothing else this week, read this Bob Kaplan piece from The Atlantic Online. He does what the MSM chickenshit so-called reporters are afraid to do: report from somewhere other than a hotel room in Baghdad. Kaplan is the author of Eastward to Tartary (ya gotta read it too) and Warrior Politics, to name two of fifteen or so great pieces. I'd like to credit this link but I forget where I first found it.