Political Scientist

A Sixty Minutes interview of an Arab monarch was great. He was a very intelligent, thoughtful man who also had a "real politic" view of the world. It would be nice to have this guy as your neighbor, even if he didn't have untold wealth. At the end of the session, he was asked "What is going to happen in Afganastan. He stated, quite simply, "When the Americans leave, the Taliban will rule."

My mind flashed back to brother Joe on the eve of the first gulf war. We were talking about some of the things that might be expected. I had been reading many newspaper reports, and other articles that really had me nervous about gas warfare, etc. Joe was unconcerned. "When the carpet bombing starts, the end is in sight, three days is all." Joe's time in Vietnam, "The worlds biggest street fight" gave him the prescience of a political scientist.