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...hand, I rage against the French for their unwillingness to change, to accept new ideas. On the other, I rather admire them. In a time of globalization, wherever I go I see the same shops, the same food chains and the same clothing, and yet the French want to maintain their distinctiveness. They don't want to be like everyone else, and for that maybe we should be thankful. France is itself, quite simply and stubbornly, even though McDonald's and office lunches have made some inroads. In the end, the resistance will lose the battle. Eventually the inexorable tide...
...architects of abusive interrogation undoubtedly feel that it is the best way to defend the U.S. against terrorist attacks, but their policy is short-sighted. It has been widely noted that U.S. interrogation abuses generate rage and a desire for revenge that is a boon to terrorist recruiters. Applying Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s famous metric, the administration may well be generating more terrorists than it is stopping. But there are two other consequences to U.S. interrogation policy that are less frequently noted...
First, the same rage discourages international public cooperation in the fight against terrorism, which tends to be a far more important source of information than anything gained from interrogation. Regardless of the perennial debate about whether torture can secure information of any value, most security and law enforcement officials agree that tips from the public—a neighbor reporting suspicious activity, a young man reporting an approach by a terrorist recruiter—are more often the key to cracking a secretive terrorist conspiracy. By discouraging cooperation from people who don’t want anything to do with...
...Probably the most alarming display of how such mixed emotions can explode into rage came in 1999 when U.S. Air Force planes that were engaged in an operation in the Balkans destroyed part of China's embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese reporters. Despite repeated apologies from Washington for what it dubbed a tragic mistake, the reaction was immediate and violent. Hundreds of thousands of protestors poured into the streets in China's largest cities, burning American flags, throwing stones and torching U.S.-made cars...
...this list, next to no-brainers like R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” and Rage Against the Machine’s entire recorded oeuvre, sits the innocuous Rolling Stones song “Ruby Tuesday...