Pt. 1. Human rights and other fashions. The Pinochet case: anti-Communism on trial ; Know thy enemy ; Human rights fifth column ; The Guantanamo Hyatt ; Justice for a despot ; Abusing the cause of human rights ; The human rights establishment destroys Haiti ; Defending the devil. -- Pt. 2. Europe - old, new and the newest version. The Balkan dilemmas. The burden of Eastern orthodoxy ; Why Eastern and Central Europe look West ; Gypsies - pariahs on the Danube or the latest P.C. minority. -- Turkish delights? Who is Abdullah Öcalan? ; The capture of Abdullah Öcalan and the future of counter-terrorism ; The PKK strategy in Europe to place Turkey on trial ; Is the PKK in Turkey on the ropes ; Why Turkey should not hang Ocalan... now ; The rise and fall of the PKK ; The Turkish problem - and hope ; The Turkish tragicomedy of errors ; (Everybody's) tricky Kurdish issue ; Turkey's Kurds - back to square one? -- The Albanian question. Who wants a greater Albania? ; Dangerous incoherence in Kosovo ; Bombs for peace? Misreading Kosovo ; Don't arm the KLA ; NATO and Kosovo: after "victory," what? ; NATO's KLA problem. -- Western Europe - old, wise or confused? The problem of "Londonistan": Europe, human rights, and terrorists ; The French election: earthquake, fascism, or wake-up call? ; Vichy thought police ; British fifth column ; Europe's native terrorism ; Belgium, Islam and the boomerang of "multiculturalism" ; Old Europe vs. new ; Hostages, terrorism, and the West ; Norway's terrorist haven ; Multiculturalism: suicide of the West? ; The fall of Spain? ; Spain's socialist surrender ; The Guantanamo four ; How Canadian tolerance became intolerance. -- Pt. 3. The plague of our time - terrorism. September 11, 2001: ten ways to look at what happened and what to expect ; Why we fear Afghanistan and why we shouldn't ; Guide to the perplexed on Afghanistan ; Afghanistan: the endgame ; The Afghan war is different ; The futile search for "root causes" of terrorism ; Observations on the Iraq War debate ; Islam on the defensive ; The peculiar case of Al-Qaeda ; What we do not know about terrorism ; The seamless war on terrorists ; The U.S. vs. the UN: the stakes ; Radical Islam and suicide bombers ; Terrorist wedding ; The enemy in Iraq ; Terror overreach ; Morocco's feminism - from above ; Terrorism is free speech ; They're here! The bad guys can alway count on useful idiots ; Visitors of death ; Russia's problem: the Chechens or Islamic terrorists? -- Pt. 4. The Americas. Cuba's transition: institutional leadership lessons from Eastern Europe ; An apology instead of policy: U.S. blunders in Latin America ; Festina Lente: United States and Cuba after Castro ; Venezuela's Castro ; Castro, human rights and Latin anti-Americanism ; Boiling Bolivia ; Chavez the cheat. -- Central America and the Caribbean. Guatemala votes down the conventional wisdom ; Guatemala election refutes the Rigoberta Left ; Clinton's Haitian nightmare ; A thug's leftist groupies. -- Mexico. The looming Mexican crisis ; Mexico's elections: a triumph for democracy? ; Mexico: slouching toward normality ; Mexico's Zapatistas: another failed revolution. -- Colombia. Why democracy is doomed in Colombia ; The suicide of Colombia ; Aid to Colombia: a study in muddled arguments ; The perilous appeasement of guerrillas ; Colombia: a trip report ; Colombia: lucidity at last ; Colombia's struggle and its enemies ; Colombia's "revolutionaries" and their helpers ; From Harvard to mass murder. -- Peru. Letter from Lima ; The election in Peru: a first-hand account ; Peru's "democratic opposition" plays with fire ; Chaos in the Andes. -- Pt. 5. Africa. Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe: two tales of self-destruction ; Does Africa exist? ; Comrade Mugabe's "state of disaster" ; African nightmare ; South Africa: the downside of liberation ; Pan-African racism ; Winnie Mandela: South Africa's mother of thieves ; What do we owe Liberia? ; Dead cannibal ; The Nigerian threat.