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The unofficial name of this Tennessee-sized swath of jungle officially controlled by the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) evokes a sinister amusement park, and that impression was certainly underscored on my first night there: In the town of San Vicente de Caguan, alongside the FARC...
What most infuriates the U.S. is that 17 November operates with a free hand. "It's not that Greece has the world's worst terrorist problem," says Wayne Merry, a former U.S. embassy official. "It's that Greece has the world's worst counterterrorism problem." What are Greek police doing...
Possible past links between government and 17 November are another problem. "We know," says Merry, "that there were people in the government, in the party, who had more than a damn good idea" of the terrorists' identities. Tying powerful figures to the group could be a political nightmare for reform...
Good-natured anarchy is political correctness's great corrective. Maybe this isn't quite There's Something About Mary, but it is merry enough.
That is one reason the primary fight turned out to be so costly--and not just because it cost him most of that $70 million he had noisily raised. It's hard to run as a merry Reaganaut when you and your surrogates have barbecued John McCain, or talked about...