Sunday, July 05, 2009

The More Things Change …

Steven Pressfield is the author of several books, one or two of which I can rightly say are favorites (The Gates of Fire and The War of Art). A recently published one about a plot to kill Rommel in WWII promises to be great.

Pressfield has decided to turn his historian’s perspective on things to Afghanistan and surmises that what the US is up against in those regions is, in his term, tribalism and perhaps not so much Islamic fascism. I think he’s got a solid point there … check out this video—part one of five—on the subject and visit his blog for more:

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