by zen | May 11, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by Steven Pressfield This just arrived hot off the presses on my doorstep yesterday, courtesy of Steve and in terms of writing, The Lion’s Gate appears to...
by zen | Jan 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Independent has a short, quasi-sensationalist, article featuring historian Margaret MacMillan discussing what is likely to become the first pop academic cottage industry of 2014….making historical analogies about...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 8, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how do you intercept messages that come via dreams? I’m thinking of al-Balawi ] . My little graphic (below) may be kidding — but what of reality? ** In the bin Laden documentary, Manhunt, which I mentioned before seeing it...
by Charles Cameron | May 21, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from Paradise Regained: Overcoming Terrorism in Star Trek Into Darkness ] . . Matt Ford, guest-blogging at Grand Blog Tarkin [includes spoilers] asks: How many young Americans learned Arabic and Pashto or studied counterterrorism and...
by zen | Apr 29, 2013 | Monitor
Anne-Marie Slaughter had a short but bombastic WaPo op-ed on Syria and chemical weapons use that requires comment: Obama should remember Rwanda as he weighs action in Syria ….The Clinton administration did not want to acknowledge that genocide was taking place...
