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[erudito]

The siege of Cadiz as central in the defeat of Napoleon.

Newsreel of the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. (The Allied signatories in order are Macarthur as Allied Supreme Commander, the US, China, UK, USSR, Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, New Zealand.)

Looking at the nuclear alertness issue. A shortage of Helium3 is

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Africa Wars

[tcpip]

Good article. A little scratching on more successful part (e.g., Botswana) may reveal a solution.

WRT to Zimbabwe, I like to say that the country was very well managed under Mugabe's first wife.

Re: Africa Wars

[erudito]

A little scratching on more successful part (e.g., Botswana) may reveal a solution.
Have a dominant tribe surrounded by lots of little tribes that it does not feel threatened? Have Sir Seretse Khama as your founding President?

WRT to Zimbabwe, I like to say that the country was very well managed under Mugabe's first wife.
Nice wit, but a thin thread to run a country on.

Re: Africa Wars

[tcpip]

Botswana has a very different approach to the "resource curse"

http://www.theiu.org/films/silver-bullet-i-the-human-right.html

Re: Africa Wars

[erudito]

The film actually isn't very informative. I gather, from a quick look around, that Botswana has some form of resource rental tax which is ploughed into useful infrastructure.

I am not sure, however, that my points are independent of that. (I.e. there may be a virtuous circle between good politics and good policy.)

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[tcpip]

Oh, and WRT Zimbabwe, you are right of course, and it underlines the point of institutions which you are justifiably fond of.