His own political website: http://www.ornery.org/index.html is heavily populated by American- and other Leftists who are delightfully annoyed by Mr. Card's conservatism. He does not post on that site and its moderated by somebody else. He is a registered Democrat upset with hijacking of his party by the Left.
His literary, non-political website: http://www.hatrack.com
His fresh articles appear in the Rhinoceros Times, Greensboro, NC: http://www.rhinotimes.com/greensboro/ (before being posted permanently on his The Ornery American website http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/index.html ). He has 2 columns in the RhinoTimes: one on political/international events, and the second one: reviews on movies, books, and anything he wants (!). I check his and Michael Medved's reviews and found myself reliably relying on them.
Are you listening JFnK?
This is great:
In effect, then, what we are fighting is not a particular group of men, but a group of stories, and while armies can do a great deal against stories (the story of Nazism, for instance, was rather thoroughly done in by the combined military strength of many nations, as was the story of Japanese superiority and imperial destiny), a story can keep an enemy alive long past the point of military defeat.
This is great:
Almost all the troubles in the world right now are generated from within the disconnected, unincluded nations. Where we are successfully exporting the global economy, the Pax Americana generally prevails; where that economy does not reach, for whatever reason, there is no peace. And now those disconnected nations are exporting their conflicts abroad.
This is great:
But military victories without a powerful story ultimately create more recruits to give up their future in service of Osama's ambition.
But this:
the Muslim world -- which consists, after all, of mothers and fathers who want their children to grow up and have families of their own --
is the moment where own Card's "story" gets in front of his eyes and makes him see what is not there.
These Muslim parents, in fact, want their children to be in paradise forever, hailed by Allah as martyr/heroes, in accordance with their Muslim "story".
Other than that one lapse, perhaps from fatigue, a brilliant piece!