by Charles Cameron | Dec 6, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — two Taliban “peace” envoys who blow themselves up, and two bombs in two turbans ] . I didn’t catch this at the time, but there’s a curious echo of the most celebrated of the Jyllands-Posten cartoons… in the...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 25, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — today’s solemn commemorations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in comparative religious perspective ] . I was listening to Mozart‘s Requiem last night, and it is rich in grief shot through with glory. That’s the...
by J.ScottShipman | Oct 10, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] This is worth the 20 minutes. Strategy without clarity, isn’t. There is no clarity or strategy to our current problems in Afghanistan. “We have killed all the slow and stupid ones. But that means the ones that are left are totally...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 21, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the perils of adding scriptures to scripture, tearing or burning them — and flags, paper money too ] . . It may be that the last time you used the word abominable it was in relation to a snowman. It’s not a word that’s...
