Orianna Fallaci is my favorite author, living or dead, bar none. The clarity of her writing is amazing, matched only by the strength of its compelling logic.
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03/13/2003 4:27:37 AM PST by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
I like Signora Fallaci's stuff, and greatly respect her, but this is one of her less coherent pieces. She's torn, she think's we've botched things up, but still realizes we're doing what we have to to. She also suspects the road ahead may be a mess, and she may also be right about that, but she fails to see how we had to take the slow course we have in order to have our assets in place. She's a reporter, essayist, and old fighter, but she's no logician.
Amatuers talk of tactics and strategy, professionals of logistics!