re: #2 jaunte

He seems both exhilarated and grim about what the Wikileaks document spill might bring. From “The Glorious Wikileaks” link:

Hm.
I’ve been reading his blog for several years now, but lately he posts sporadically. His point of view is always interesting and he often makes points I haven’t seen made elsewhere.
Here’s how he describes himself:

Be forewarned: The writer of this blog is an extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, disgruntled sandmonkey. If this is your cup of tea, please enjoy your stay here. If not, please sod off.

I don’t think he’s really thinking this is the beginning of WWIII. I do think he’s expecting quite a bit of fallout in his region of the world from this, and possibly some ignoring of that fallout from western media. Here’s a recent post of his on the future of Egypt. A very interesting read, IMO.