by Lynn C. Rees | Sep 11, 2015 | Monitor
[anniversaried by Lynn C. Rees] The Internet told me Ahmed Shah Masood was dead. I was annoyed. I hated the Taliban: they were the enemy of all mankind. My hate didn’t single them out just for general Third World thuggishness, seventh century flavored...
by Lynn C. Rees | Oct 15, 2014 | Monitor
[pre-acknowledged by Lynn C. Rees] Meet Edward Mandell House: Mr. House has a reputation for being wise and inscrutable. He was also nicknamed “Colonel” House. We need not refer to him by that nickname here. While Mr. House did have a name, he never...
by Lynn C. Rees | Mar 5, 2014 | Monitor
[exhumed by Lynn C. Rees] If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble but neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. – Theodore Roosevelt One of the great...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — when is a sword just a metaphor, when does it spill blood, and what can be done about it when it does? ] . Hayder al-Khoei is presently in Rome for an interfaith conference on “Religions and Cultures in Dialogue” organised by...
