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...stakes in Iraq then become questions of moral responsibility and regional stability. "How many Srebrenicas do you have the stomach for?" a senior U.S. official asked me, referring to the Bosnian massacre by the Serbs in 1995. Given the antipathy of the American people for the war, I'd guess the public reaction would be, "Those Arabs are just a bunch of barbarians, and we could never tell the difference between Shi'ites and Sunnis anyway." A more pointed question is, How many massacres of Sunnis will the Saudis and Jordanians have the stomach for? How hard will Iran press...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In it, he suggested that certain “para-white ethnic groups” influence the media to denigrate blacks and “to convince themselves and others of their imagined white identity.” One can only guess of whom he might have been thinking...
...such a big fat target, metaphorically speaking, that he attracts attacks from swarms of ideological critics, thus bringing his message to more people. Last week, for example, the Treasury Department indicated it would investigate Moore for taking a trip to Cuba to check out Castro's medical system. (Guess what he found? It's better than ours!) Moore shot back with an open letter that claimed the Bush Administration was "abusing the federal government for raw, crass political purposes." It was his way of saying thank you for all the free publicity...
...Lost Angeles It is definitely what pulled me into this situation with Darfur. Before I began working on the movie I had very sketchy knowledge about what had happened in Rwanda. It wasn't until I started working on the movie that I began learning about Darfur. I guess it is fair to say that has sort of pulled me into the current...
...there are problems in Afghanistan, but do we really need to talk about these things? At this time?" There's probably a grain of truth there--there's something distinctively American and confessional about Hosseini's work. He shrugs. For the first time he sounds a little angry. "I guess I misunderstood what the role of fiction was. Because I never thought it was about writing things that everybody agrees about, that make everybody feel warm and fuzzy inside. I guess it's my Western sensibility, now that I've lived here for so long, that I feel like these...