Wednesday Article Bonanza

This week's been horrible so far. I'm not holding out much hope for the rest of the week. Next week looks rough, too.

AP: Rocket Launchers Sold to Venezuela [by Sweden] Went to FARC - Hugo Chavez is a moron. You'd think he'd at least be smart enough to cover his tracks... Well, maybe not.

CNN: In Havana, U.S. turns off sign critical of Cuban government

Guardian: Ministers believe they have created the right conditions for dialogue with 'second-tier' local [Taliban] leaders - Don't you have to be, you know, winning, in order for the conditions to be right to negotiate?

Guardian: Shades of fundamentalism">Talk to the Taliban, but don't sell out the women and young people of Afghanistan - The Taliban are diametrically opposed to any form of women's rights. Where's the overlap? There is none.

Guardian: Afghanistan Needs a Henry VII

Guardian: The self-righteous left's simplistic world - Gal Wettstein invokes the smug left on censorship in Israel. Democracy there is healthier than in most Middle Eastern states

Times: Britain 'will need more troops in Afghanistan'

Times: Terrorist threat to Sacha Baron Cohen over Brüno ridicule - If you only read one article or watch one video clip from today's post, this should be it.

Times: The conquerors are coming, Pierre – we Brits need more land

Jerusalem Post: IDF creates replica Hizbullah village, forest

Taqadoumy: Mauritania arrests alleged member of al Qaeda offshoot

Taqadoumy: Algeria, POLISARIO and the Mauritanian election

Bollocks.