George Smiley on the Dark Side ?

The Sunday Times: Reports that John le Carré, the great writer on the Great Game between the West and the USSR thought about defecting, to see what the other side was like, he was wise and thought better of the move to the USSR. President Ronald Reagan had the Soviet Union right, it was a Evil Empire that had to be destroyed, Evil can not be talked to, appeased, it has to be destroyed, that was the gift to the World from the Gipper.

Death in Afghanistan

BBC News: Reports on the death of another British Soldier in Afghanistan. The total now stands at 120. Those that are fighting in Afghanistan are fighting to allow the people of Afghanistan to be free and to show that Afghanistan can have a peaceful existence, Afghanistan has suffered to much and lost to much over the years.