Chris Hedges writes:

George W. Bush has handed Barack Obama a poisoned apple. Obama has bitten it.

I hope he is wrong, but yesterday's defense appointments make me worry that he is right.

Also, an economic summary of global terror, in the words of Robert Pape:Terrorism

is not a supply-limited phenomenon where there are just a few hundred around the world willing to do it because they are religious fanatics. It is a demand-driven phenomenon. That is, it is driven by the presence of foreign forces on the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland.

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