A hopeful timeline...

An age old struggle...

This is a very moving interview. I never followed Christopher Hitchens' career that closely but was aware of his controversial views. His interview here with The Atlantic regarding his struggle with cancer is stark and moving. It is certainly thought-provoking.

Two takes on Wikileaks' latest endeavor...

I tend to take the view that "the need to know" outweighs other factors introduced by Foust in the PBS video. I guess a bright side of the story is that the government isn't necessarily acting Bush-like by "publicly" going after Assange (If he was a US citizen, of course, he would already be at some new Gitmo. Sad.). Of course, that doesn't mean that they are not going after him privately. Ultimately, we really need to know what our government is doing in these countries, regardless of how painful it is. Perhaps if it becomes so unbearably painful, we will think twice before jumping into manufactured situations like Iraq.