In a country where the precise payment of taxes is elevated to cult status in the everyday life for the average American, the special status of priests has [led to] multiple questions from the fast-growing atheistically-oriented population of the U.S.
Robin Koerner-. Published in Novoe Vostochnoe Obozrenie
... The West is doing everything possible in order to win Burma over, including turning a blind eye to the mass slaughter of the Muslim population in a country that took to the path of “democracy.”
[Syria] is not worth it. Otherwise, having trained on 'small fish,' Washington may one day decide to move to the 'democratic' elimination of bigger opponents. Why not aim a blow at Moscow?
Time will tell whether forcing the country on the path of modernization will meet the interests of those who after the "Karzai era" will begin to elaborate the rules of the game in Kabul.