The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. Um, like to WOD levels? Still not quite as oppressive as the UK, I think. Forget France.
The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every town square is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast press. Ah, the "they don't agree with me so they must be dupes." Problem is we got this internet thingy, and the "US media" gets fact-checked.
"Loftier columns of the East Coast press."
Sniff. Did his grad student assistant write this?
Thanks. I still like him -- Russia House was great and not a bad flick either....
His last couple have been a little weaker... but the early and mid ones are phenomenal.....
That said, he's got the vaunted British araby infatuation....