Best Glossary Ever

I found this lurking in one of my outboxes, and though it deserved an airing:
In the course of a single Crooked Timber thread, I seem to have come worryingly close to defending both genocide and forced child marriage
More than usual, please read the rest…

Blogger Lenin has some impartial [*] words on the future for the Caucasus after the current willy-waving:
a new Brzezinski-advised Obama administration would certainly focus far more intently on shoring up US power in Central Asia than continuing to fight the lost battle in Iraq.
It’s what we should have been doing for the last 15 years; [...]