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…raying Moslems in a cave near Abraham’s burial plot for Sarah in Hebron; what were lovingly mystical, Jelaluddin Rumi’s Afghanistan (Balkh) descendents become people bashing and women stoning morality police; committed and mesmerizing Christian televangelists attend peep shows an...

…d trained volunteers from across the Muslim world to fight against the Soviet-backed regime, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan” (Wikipedia) About EP: "In his autobiography, he states that during the Yugoslav Wars in the early 1990s, he realized the need for private training...

…fe inside big, old and lamed structures confronting the fast, blithe and unstoppable future. By 2009, with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq settling into a low boil, America’s generals again began wondering what other cracks were spreading around the world. The Unknown and the F...

…mfort we still sweat with nervousness. What is coming next? After all the blood and treasure, after 850,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and $3 trillion dollars - we were left with expanded swamps. Like “Don't do stupid things”, “Don’t Go Home!” tells us little about the picture of wo...

… there’s a higher form of government. Certainly not 9/11 — I don’t think anybody wants to live in a place like Iran and Afghanistan, so I don’t think that’s a serious competitor. China is a more plausible alternative. But I don’t think that anybody who’s not culturally Chinese wo...