Sublime

This is America, we would say to ourselves, there is no need to worry. And we would be wrong.

The Bin Ladens built the bases. A Bin Laden would seek to destroy them. Osama bin Laden issued his “Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places” in 1996, after the Dhahran bombing. On the face of it, this seemed an absurdly imbalanced war: an exile living in a cave complex in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, taking on

The metamorphosis from rash young newbie to jaded old-timer had happened slowly.

TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ, we apologize for the reckless, unplanned, understaffed, corrupt, and wasteful way in which our country occupied and then failed at rebuilding your shattered nation. For every innocent mother or father, son or daughter, sister or brother, friend or family member who was killed, tortured, or injured by our country, we extend

Mark Bowden chronicled special mission units in Somalia and Colombia during the early 1990s. Black Hawk Down (Bowden 1999)

What happened next, in retrospect, seems faintly incredible. With no one left to argue with him, Sam threw the switch and let Modelbot rip. “We turned it on and it instantly started making us lots of money,” said Nishad. And then they finally found the $4 million worth of missing Ripple. First they figured out its travel itinerary: it had been sent

• Cook has led the company as it has continually closed down iOS, controlling developers through the stick of market size instead of the carrot of platform opportunity.


• Cook has similarly been at the forefront of Apple absolutist approach to privacy, which has only increased in intensity and