The Blob attacks! The Blob, the foreign policy establishment of Washington DC, is a herd of one-trick ponies devoted to foreign aggression, occupation, and endless war through think tanks, talk shows, pundits, and publishing. Tragic Afghanistan: a pre-modern tribal society lacking a national bourgeoisie.   Will the Taliban export their brand of revolution to the Uighurs, an oppressed Moslem ethic group in China's province of East Turkestan (Xinkiang)?; the relevance of the Battle of Talas, 750 AD.  A trap set by one president for another: Bush 41's incursion into Somalia of November 1992, designed to hobble Clinton. Why Afghanistan in the first place: a flurry of snap judgments by Bush officials on 9/11 that set the stage for decades of futility.