I have been reading ‘The Looming Tower’ the past two days and find its scope, organization and depth mind-boggling. The book details the history of Al-Qaeda and bin Laden, beginning with the movement’s ideological foundation in an Egyptian author who traveled to America in the fifties and was later hanged for sedition in Egypt in [...]
Bush’s comments yesterday regarding the possible consequences of US troops withdrawing from Iraq, that such a withdrawal would create a power vacuum that would result in massive casualties of civilians in a manner akin to Pol Pot’s destruction of Cambodia, leaves me once again in exasperated disbelief. The idea that it was our pulling out [...]
I read determinedly this morning in order to finish the last one-hundred pages of Jeffrey Sachs ‘The End of Poverty.’ Sachs is head of the Earth Institute at Columbia and an adviser to the UN’s Millenium Project, as well as a former economic adviser to Bolivia, Poland, India, China and many African nations.In his book, [...]
I’ve often wondered aloud what compulsion leads so many of us to create online diaries for the world to read. My simple answer is that the motivation to create a blog is the same as the motivation to take pictures of every memorable event in our lives, or to document our travels, or to videotape [...]
