Archive for September 20, 2008
I read about the explosion at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. It largely hosts foreign visitors like myself. I had lunch there twice: they serve good all-you-can-eat lunch buffets. The food is OK (not as spectacular as Serena’s) but the temperature was too high for my taste.PS A friend suggested that it sounded insensitive. It [...]
Posted on September 20, 2008 by As'ad
The War Within by Bob Woodward should be read by all those who want to understand the American war and occupation of Iraq. There are many things that have not been mentioned in the media reviews of the book. Woodward is unlike himself in this book: he has more cited sources and more (very brief [...]
Posted on September 20, 2008 by As'ad
Regina Snayfir was a fighter in the Lebanese Forces militia in the 1980s. She later saw first hand scenes of torture and murder and left in disgust. She wrote a revealing account about her experience, and how the Maronite Patriarch did not react when she informed him about the dungeons of torture in Lebanese Forces’ [...]
Posted on September 20, 2008 by As'ad
This is courage. In the last weeks of the Bush administration, columnists in Saudi media began to criticize Bush and his doctrine. Here, Hazim Saghiyyah eulogizes the Bush doctrine, although he himself had called on Arabs (in a talk at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy) to internalize the Bush doctrine: “Hence, the Arab [...]
Posted on September 20, 2008 by As'ad