Honey, I Created a Jihad

If you’re interested in how a century of British and American (and generally Western) involvement in the Middle East led to the mess there we now face see Barry Lando’s excellent book Web of Deceit (and ses also his blog: http://barrylando.com). No Hitch and Sullivan, it’s not “islamofascism”; rather, it’s about oil and colonial history [...]

Read Full Post »

What Went Wrong (9/11 and Schizophrenia)

… they are in touch with the deeper sense in which the United States forced itself into contact with the world in the worst possible way. That is, helped bring the most maniacal elements of the “other” to its shores — let them slip through its security apparatus, paid no attention to the hornet’s nest it had been stirring, took no real precautions to protect itself, all despite the veneer of realism.

Read Full Post »