WORLD WAR FOUR: An interesting story on the less-reported part of the war on terror, from the Globe and Mail. I’m glad that folks at the CIA are paying attention to Mauritania, which is in a part of the world that I think deserves some attention (hence my repeated stories on the missing tourists). I’m also happy that they’re calling it “World War IV” among themselves, for that is a more accurate description, in some ways, than “war on terror.”

The article also contains some useful cautionary notes about unsavory and untrustworthy allies, though, of course, one always has those in war. In World War Two, you know, we had De Gaulle.