December 2001 Vol.4, No. 10 Contents Breaking the Spell of Harry Potter by Darris McNeely Restoration...The Coming "Utopia" by Darris McNeely Europe's New Money by Paul Kieffer Keep Your Eye on Gibraltar! by John Ross Schroeder Next on the Agenda-Mideast Peace by Melvin Rhodes Making Sense of the Cloning Claims by Cecil E. Maranville Excerpts From Good News Radio: God's Wake-Up Call by Gary Petty This Is the Way...When "The Great Game" Is Over by Robin Webber This Is the Way... When "The Great Game" Is Over by Robin Webber Nearly 100 years ago, the famous British author Rudyard Kipling wrote of "The Great Game." Kipling, known for many a verse addressed to young people, was alluding to something far more complex than any child's pastime. He was speaking of the centerpiece of a great geopolitical chessboard that sat between two rival empires. The chessboard of "The Great Game" was none other than Afghanistan. In Kipling's time, Russia was in pursuit of a warm water port to the south, and Britain was determined to protect its empire on the Asian subcontinent. Afghanistan was the intersecting crunch-zone for all would-be power seekers to enter. It has been so since the days of Alexander the Great. Intrigue, political seduction and skirmishes brokered by the "big powers" through their tribal surrogates all played out like a game of chess. Isn't it incredible how some things just don't change? Unfortunately, the pawns were not funny shaped carvings of wood, ivory or plastic, but very real flesh and blood people with hopes and dreams like you and me. It's been said, "When war visits a nation, its people are never the same." Unfortunately for Afghanistan, war has never left. In 2001, we are simply witnessing the latest moves of the pawns on the "great game board" by powerful outside interests. A warlike rite of passage Such an unsettled climate has created a warlike rite of passage handed down from one generation to the next. A warrior culture has become entrenched in the minds and hearts of the everyday man. "On the ground" in Afghanistan there are no games, only the reality of day-to-day survival. Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0112/theway0112.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Table of Contents that includes "When 'The Great Game' Is Over" Other Articles by Robin Webber Illiteracy: _Is Life Only About Fun! Fun! Fun? _Going After the Good Stuff Making peace: _A Short History of Walls _Red, Blue and God _Searching for a Mideast Peace _Just for Youth: Making Peace _Win-Win: Who Says There Has to Be a Loser? _Are You Pulling Your Own Hair? _Real Peace Is More Than the Absence of War _Go Ahead, Rock the Boat _How Can We Find the Pathway to Peace? Afghanistan: _Key to the Middle East-Seek First to Understand _Any Room at the Inn? _Will Russia Win in Chechnya? _Going Safely Into the Unknown _A Growing Confederacy Against Modern Israel _Behind the Headlines ... America vs. Iraq or America vs. the World? _Pakistan: A Nuclear-Armed Power Walks a Tightrope _World News & Trends Jan 2009 _Afghanistan: What's Behind a Seemingly Unwinnable War? _How Long Will the NATO Alliance Last? > November 2009 > World News & Prophecy War: _Global War Will Strike Again _The Lord of the Refugees _"Neither Shall They Learn War Anymore" _"'Peace, Peace!' When There Is No Peace _The Little Country That Could _To Tell the Truth _World News Review Jul 2001 _A 20th Century Retrospective:The Shot Still Reverberating Around the World _Political Correctness Hides the Truth _Asking the Tough Question: Has Religion Failed? _The Majority: Unknowing, Unaware and Unconcerned _Two Men and a Valley _A Brief History of America at War _What Have We Learned? _Has the Third World War Already Begun? _The Working Energy of Faith _60 Years After the War in Europe _Seeing It With Your Own Eyes _Food Insecurity in a Hungry World _War's Long Memory _War and Peace _"I Will Fight No More Forever" _Wars of Religion: An Ancient Scourge Reborn _The Coming New Religion _Jesus Christ's Olivet Prophecy: Where Are We Now? _Military Service and War _Introduction (GK) _War and Peace in the Middle East _A World Plagued With Human Suffering _Story Flow of the Book of Revelation _Neither Shall They Learn War Anymore _Does It Really Matter What You Believe? _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Mar/Apr 1997 _Deadly Diseases: Again a Threat to Humanity? _Instant Epidemics: The New Breed of Weapons _When Will Mankind Find Peace? _Staying Alert in a Dangerous World: India and Pakistan _Will History Repeat Itself? _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Jul/Aug 2002 _Coming Calamities: Does God Offer Protection? _2003: The Storm Clouds Gather _'I Hope We've Learned Our Lesson ...' _The Horsemen of Revelation: The Red Horse of War _What's at the Root of War? _Wars: The Chief Man-made Disaster _60 Years After World War II: What Have We Learned? _War & Peace _Wars of Religion: A Scourge Reborn _Know Jesus, Know Peace _The End of War, Terror and Other Bad Stuff _Man is a Wolf to Man _A Personal View of the Kosovo Conflict _Peace on Earth? _When Will the Middle East Find Peace? _Children of War _Bomb Squad: Removing War's Deadly Aftermath _War to End All Wars _World War II: A View From Underground _The Wonderful World Beyond Today! 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