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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Condoleezza Rice’s Strange Travel Itinerary
If we’d been smoking opium, as depicted in this surrealistic c. 1907-1915 British vintage postcard with bats and dragons and swirling smoke plumes encircling the prostrate soldier still clutching his opium pipe, we’re not sure we could have dreamed up anything stranger than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s rush-job trip to the “Middle East” this weekend.


