Meltdown

Colin Powell, whose poll-popularity in the U.S. just passed the Pope's (what the heck does that mean anyway? Somebody has a serious case of apples and oranges!), is visiting Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal this month. Fun. His main concern? "What we have here [Nepal] is a government that is trying to survive a period of turmoil caused by the events of a few months ago," Secretary Powell said. "This really is the kind of thing we're fighting against throughout the world."

In the last century, the 'free' states fought the communist states. They had a lot of unsavory allies. Think that's a thing of the past? Now it's the states fighting the non-states. No pretense at free this time. So our unsavory allies probably won't just be authoritarian allies - most of those are states in good standing. Unsavory will be one non-state organization (terrorist, liberation, etc) which is willing to do our dirty work in fighting other groups of the same type.

Drop me a note if something changes, but say you heard it here first: post-Cold War, mankind is still sinful.