THE MEDIA WAR AND THE MIDDLE EAST
MASSIVE MARCH IN MEXICO FOR VOTE RECOUNT
READERS DEBATE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS
You are the producer of NBC’s Meet The Press. The big story of the week is the escalating war in the Middle East. You want to have a smart discussion of the issues and perhaps inform the public in more depth than they get in the daily news. What do you do? ( same link as above )
Tomgram: Bush's Faith and the Middle East Aflame
The Force Is Not with Them
The Middle East Aflame and the Bush Administration Adrift
By Tom Engelhardt
So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we?
As a man who is no fan of fundamentalists of any sort, let me offer a proposition that might make some modest sense of our reeling planet. Consider the possibility that the most fundamental belief, perhaps in all of history, but specifically in these last catastrophic years, seems to be in the efficacy of force -- and the more of it the merrier. That deep belief in force above all else is perhaps the monotheism of monotheisms, a faith remarkably accepting of adherents of any other imaginable faith – or of no other faith at all. Like many fundamentalist faiths, it is also resistant to drawing any reasonable lessons from actual experience on this planet...
Crap. After reading Danny and Tom I want to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head.
update: Go see Virt, he's providing a valuable service for those of us who need to laugh.
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