padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
yeah, I read it a few months ago. somebody - scott, I think - linked it in the Iran thread. you're a talented writer, of course, it's a very fine essay, tho I'm not telling you anything new there.
as to what you're saying I mean, eh. again, it's really a matter of your view of the world, how you'd like to pull emergent patterns out of the current of global events. I think treating it as a war is a self-fulfilling prophecy, as well as simply bad policy. I mean really, what has it gotten us, exactly?
whipping together this monolithic, shadowy jihadi network of state & non-state actors doesn't seem very accurate, just going by the last few years, but hey, I dunno.
as to what you're saying I mean, eh. again, it's really a matter of your view of the world, how you'd like to pull emergent patterns out of the current of global events. I think treating it as a war is a self-fulfilling prophecy, as well as simply bad policy. I mean really, what has it gotten us, exactly?
whipping together this monolithic, shadowy jihadi network of state & non-state actors doesn't seem very accurate, just going by the last few years, but hey, I dunno.