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...times, for this weary traveler, it was nice to have a little bit of home so far away. After an uneventful summer at home, I took off for Europe to meet my friend Susannah and see a little of Spain, Italy and France...
...having a problem putting down its guns, even though most of those it claims to represent have long since turned against violence. Over in Spain, the militant Basque separatists of the ETA present the same problem. NATO plans to disarm Albanian rebels in Macedonia appear somewhat optimistic, despite last week's political peace agreement. And the Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad appear to have no shortage of young Palestinians willing to blow themselves up in order to make a bloody political point...
...longer an insurgent's career, the more difficult it becomes to contemplate disarming - and that's precisely the problem with the IRA and ETA. Ireland and Spain today are two of the fastest growing economies of Europe, and young people reared in the increasingly prosperous EU culture are increasingly disdainful of separatist struggles, much less those pursued by arms. The hard men of the IRA and ETA are relics of a past era, but it's not hard to see why they cling to that past. When a nationalist movement moves from insurgency towards politics, the power tends to shift...
...Still, the wider economic context in Ireland and Spain has marginalized the men of war. Eventually they simply become a nuisance factor. But the economic context in the Balkans and the Middle East, for example, is quite different. Macedonia's fragile peace has plenty of potentially fatal flaws that could cause its collapse, and the stagnant economy hardly provides a reassuring foundation for the brave new state envisaged in the political agreement. And while economics has little direct impact on the fact that Israel and the Palestinians are moving daily further away from a return to the peace process...
...Gray Lady blew his cover. That must be why AL GORE's staff, according to sources, called the New York Times to complain about a photo the paper ran of the elusive former Veep in Valencia, Spain, sporting--surprise!--a patchy beard. Word is, the beard will come off before the former presidential candidate ends his self-imposed exile and returns from Europe. Apparently he intends to become a freedom fighter for the Democratic Party beginning next week. At an "academy" in Nashville, Tenn., he'll train 25 fresh college graduates to be political operatives, the Times reports. Then...