1.   Australia is a country the size of the US but population poor.

2.   Afghanistan, a country the size of Texas with few paved roads, poses transportation challenges.

3.   Burundi, a poor, landlocked, French-speaking country the size of Connecticut, is hardly central to U.S. policy.

4.   But Congo, a country the size of Alaska, Colorado and Texas put together, or most of Western Europe, is no place for peacekeepers right now.

5.   But he has indicated that he is looking most closely to Canadian domestic intelligence as a more appropriate model for a country the size of Argentina.

6.   Five major railroads seem too few for a country the size of the United States.

7.   Once again, Washington over-reacts to a small country the size of Pennsylvania.

8.   Rumsfeld repeated his statement about the difficulty in locating Taliban and al-Qaida leaders in a country the size of Texas.

9.   Thus, in a country the size of California, everyone feels touched by the Kobe quake.

10.   Why would Ecuador, a country the size of Colorado, regularly pick a fight with Peru, a country the size of Texas and California combined?