Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Point/Counterpoint

Good news!

Bad news.

How to make sense of it?

1 comment:

Josh said...

Hard to say. I actually read the NYT article this morning before reading the blog post: I found this quote from Dr. Fadl interesting:

"“Oh, you young people, do not be deceived by the heroes of the Internet, the leaders of the microphones, who are launching statements inciting the youth while living under the protection of intelligence services, or of a tribe, or in a distant cave or under political asylum in an infidel country,” Fadl warns. “They have thrown many others before you into the infernos, graves, and prisons.”"

But more than that, unless political and social conditions in these areas improve, it's hard to see how the flow of disenfranchised, impoverished youth into the networks of guerrilla fighters will be stemmed.