Thailand’s Thaksin Thinks He Can Outlast the Protesters

Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted premier who nonetheless has run Thailand for the past seven years through surrogates and guile, is like the Cheshire Cat. There is nothing for his enemies to pursue except his disappearing smile, now here and gone there.

That smile appeared recently in an unnamed Asian city where Thaksin had dinner with a closely monitored …