Afghanistan

3:30pm, Titsworth Lecture Hall
AFGHAN WARS, AFGHAN PEOPLE. Edward Girardet: author, humanitarian
advocate, print and television journalist who has covered Afghanistan for 25 years,
and current National Geographic correspondent; and Charles Norchi, SLC History
Faculty
will discuss Afghanistan and their new book: "The CROSSLINES Essential Field Guide to
AFGHANISTAN."

All that and no reading to do for class today. I was pleased.

The most salient point I took away from the lecture (besides at least one additional urbane-middle-ager crush) was this: the US has bought roughly 50 years of peace by supporting whomever they think will be most likely to kill their enemies for them, regardless of how insane/religious/inhumane they may be. That's how Saddam and the Taliban came to power in the first place.

I miss not knowing how horrible our leaders were making the lives of the downtrodden peoples of the world. The 90s were the decade of ignorance, and ignorance was bliss.

Afghanistan

3:30pm, Titsworth Lecture Hall
AFGHAN WARS, AFGHAN PEOPLE. Edward Girardet: author, humanitarian
advocate, print and television journalist who has covered Afghanistan for 25 years,
and current National Geographic correspondent; and Charles Norchi, SLC History
Faculty
will discuss Afghanistan and their new book: "The CROSSLINES Essential Field Guide to
AFGHANISTAN."

All that and no reading to do for class today. I was pleased.

The most salient point I took away from the lecture (besides at least one additional urbane-middle-ager crush) was this: the US has bought roughly 50 years of peace by supporting whomever they think will be most likely to kill their enemies for them, regardless of how insane/religious/inhumane they may be. That's how Saddam and the Taliban came to power in the first place.

I miss not knowing how horrible our leaders were making the lives of the downtrodden peoples of the world. The 90s were the decade of ignorance, and ignorance was bliss.

Darwinism

On the tv news just a bit ago, there was a story about some woman who dropped her cell phone on the tracks, went down to get it, and got creamed by a subway train. All I can think is, "I hope the train got her before she could breed".

Now I remember why I don't watch tv anymore... though, I must admit, the spectacle of Tyra Banks psychologically abusing young aspirant models is oddly compelling.

Darwinism

On the tv news just a bit ago, there was a story about some woman who dropped her cell phone on the tracks, went down to get it, and got creamed by a subway train. All I can think is, "I hope the train got her before she could breed".

Now I remember why I don't watch tv anymore... though, I must admit, the spectacle of Tyra Banks psychologically abusing young aspirant models is oddly compelling.