John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Tripoli
I knew a very old man who was an Australian soldier in World War One, the War to End All Wars, The Great War for Civilisation. His ship arrived in Tripoli, in Libya, and he said all he could smell was gasoline, there was just so much gasoline everywhere...then he and his comrades went fighting all through the Middle East and then they liberated a grateful Palestine.
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