Poland’s role in world history has often been pivotal, but one would hardly know that if one only read the traditional European histories. As the critical state between “east” and “west”, Poland has often served as the watchtower for liberal values. Foreign Policy has run a great, short article on Poland’s history.
On the same day as the school tragedy in Newtown, CT, China suffered a similar incident, although less horrific because the weapon used was a knife. The difference between how the US addressed the matter and how the Chinese addressed theirs, is interesting, although one shouldn’t make too much of the comparison.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran now has a Facebook page. Although Facebook was banned in Iran in 2009 as political unrest swept through Iran, it now seems as if the Ayatollah does no wish to be behind the Pope who just established a Twitter account. The world is clearly going mad.
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