11.08.10
Monday Morning Video
Recent current events summarized in slides.
Tom Friedman, as usual, unintentionally hilarious on the bomb plot:
So many, but not all, of the suicide bombers come from failing, humiliated societies that generate huge numbers of “sitting-around people,??? who are easy prey for recruiters offering martyrdom and significance in the next life. We need to do what we can to eliminate their sources of energy.
Boy, what other “failing, humiliated societies” that have generated “huge numbers of ‘sitting around people'” do we know of?
We must do all we can to eliminate their sources of energy, too.
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November 8, 2010 at 9:34 am
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