Bubble America Due to prejudice, Al Jazeera English is not carried on television or cable in most of the United States. Consequently, most Americans lack a prime source of perspective on events and thinking in the Middle East. That ignorance hurts us. Columnist Frank Rich noted that: The consequence of a decade’s worth of indiscriminate [...]
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Tagged: Al Jazeera English, Frank Rich, ignorance, Middle East, prejudice, Wallflowers at the Revolution
Three thoughtful essays about war, national power, and owed respect Three thoughtful opinion pieces summarize our foreign affairs difficulties and the price of national thoughtlessness. Frank Rich, Freedom’s Just another Word, New York Times (04 September 2010) Andrew J. Bacevich, Obama Wants Us to Forget the Lessons of Iraq, The New Republic (31 August 2010) [...]
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Tagged: Andrew Bacevich, Frank Rich, Freedom's Just another Word, Obama Wants Us to Forget the Lessons of Iraq, Superbroke Superfrugal Superpower?, Thomas Friedman