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Talking about the future pope, who's going to bet with me? I speculate that the next one will be from the "good ol' U.S. of A.". Reasons: 1) North America is the main Catholic Church crisis point at the moment, and 2) that's where the main Vatican money comes from (I'm talking about voluntary donations, not investments), and the above-mentioned crisis is hitting quite harshly on the "poor" Michelangelo-enjoying vatican court.
There wouldn't be a point in nominating someone from South-America or Africa, places were the Church is already strong anyway. Wojtila was so effective at fighting the soviet bloc because he was the living proof that you could be born there and still be a right-wing, Mary-obsessed, sex-scared religious fanatic. A "clean" yankee Pope would equally act as proof that you can still serve the Roman Catholic Church in North America and not be a paedophile.

Congratulations, your savvy readers just broke BugMeNot ;) I tried for minutes to get in with BMN, to no avail...

Yeah, Luttwak is nothing more than a wingnut, but in Italy he's seen as "the american insider" on foreign policy issues. Nevermind he's been proved wrong on so many occasions... but you know how big media work -- it's the same everywhere, possibly even worse in Italy (where people simply won't read books, and I'm sorry Anna, I'm not talking about you, but even your company's own standards nowadays are extremely low).

At the very least, this death will remind everyone that Italy is the fourth supplier of troops to the occupation in Iraq but we are still considered as worthless by our US masters. It doesn't matter that we have possibly the best *peacekeeping* forces, we have good techniques and great understanding of population needs and our recent missions have been huge successes (even the most-criticized one in Albania, a place so fucked up that only our ability in dealing with hopeless situations is keeping the country together).

The Clinton administration tried to appear as they were talking with allies; these arrogant neocons are barely able to speak... I'm sorry to preach to the converts here, but I see reports from CNN that the recent "european tour" went well -- it didn't. Everyone in Europe hates GWB, even staunch right-wingers fascists. They had to blind the US delegation to avoid protests _everywhere they went_!

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