Nick Kristof is in fine form today. I have to admit, I stopped watching MTV when they stopped showing music. It’s good to know that it is giving coverage to the region.
I skimmed A Problem from Hell and it’s really good. Highly recommend it.
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Mayor Mike Make #NYC Proud
NYC.gov. The attack was an act of war – and our first responders defended not only our City but also our country and our Constitution. We do not honor their lives by denying the very Constitutional rights they died protecting. We honor their lives by defending those rights – and the freedoms that the terrorists attacked.
Is the US in an abusive relationship?
Are we getting beaten up by our companion Saudi Arabia and making excuses for them? Because it sure seems that we are. Almost 1/2 of all foreign fighters in Iraq are from our friend and ally Saudi Arabia. I’m sorry, what?!? Look, people, we’ve had multiple rationale’s for getting involved in Iraq, starting with the search for WMD (which weren’t there, but even if they were, they were bought by the US and Saudi Arabia to stop the Shi’ah incursion from Iran) to spreading democracy and keeping the virulent ideology of Islamic extremists at bay. So as I understand it…