Sublime

The left, paralyzed by his multicultural background, had never been able to fight him, or so much as mention his name.

I sip my coffee. It’s good. “The de facto king of Iraq is a Kissinger acolyte named L. Paul Bremer III. On taking office, he passed two edicts that have shaped the occupation. Edict number one ruled that any member of the Ba’ath Party above a certain rank was to be sacked. With one stroke of the pen Bremer consigned to the scrap-heap the very civil

beleaguered

Assured that the Jordanians would protect him, “he just started spewing,” the official said. Suddenly the agency’s interrogators were filling notebooks with rare insider accounts of AQI’s command structure and tactics. One of Karbouly’s jobs, according to the former senior intelligence official, was to oversee incoming supplies for Zarqawi’s bomb f

Varian Fry was a hero, but he was also a maverick who flew in the face of American policy.

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss

condemn more, understand less – has become the default response of almost everyone,