I'm A Better Polemicist In Prose.

Silk Road To Ruin Has All The Analysis And It's Structured Very Well. I Rely On My Notes More And I Use Direct Quotes. But There's Nothing Like Writing About It Right Away.

The Word 'hero' Has Been Bandied About A Lot To Refer To Anyone Killed In Afghanistan Or Iraq. But Anyone Who Voluntarily Goes To Afghanistan Or Iraq [as A Soldier] Is Fighting For An Evil Cause Under An Evil Commander In Chief.

Trying To Rebuild Afghanistan On The Cheap Has Left The Country In The Hands Of Warlords And An Impotent Northern Alliance Puppet Regime That Runs Kabul And Nothing Else.

Even Though I'm A Leftist. I Think The Left Eats Its Own.

Most People Don't Know How To Tell Stories.