Also excellent. Thx, cosmic. There was a writer...
...interviewed about an hour ago on 'Hardball with Chris Mathews' ... anybody catch it? Spend several months in Northern Afghanistan with the rather ragtag, appears, rebel army trying to overthrow the Taliban. Wrote a book ... darn. I should have written it down and can't find the show schedule. He was good. That show is excellent, IMO, in general. There was mention that his work over there will appear on National Geographic special sometime SOON, I would think.
CNN's special over the weekend "Behind the Veil" was brutally revealing to me ... and hopefully, hundreds of thousands of others like me here. About life in Afghanistan. ... hearing right now that 1.5 million are trying to flee but the borders are sealed...food aid deliveries incoming have been cut off by Taliban ...
This is horrible. Those people don't deserve to suffer.
BTW: Is the fundamentalistic 'romancing' of the copy of Bush's daily speeches bothering anyone else?
This 'Good vs Evil' positioning ... it's still there ... U.S. Bible Belt BS colors practically everything he says ... along with the 'John Wayne/Forrest Gump' (credit to kholt ... I love that one) on-camera demeanor when he's forced to ad-lib.
I just don't see how, really, anyone, can't draw the stark conclusion that the the religions of the West are just as foolish when taken to a level of zealotry and mix with governments that these are the results.
Bush needs to completely strip all references to 'God,' to 'good vs evil,' to the 'Scriptures' ... to 'crusades' (that was righ) ... it's got to go.
It's INFLAMMATORY.
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