Hayden, Still articulate after all these years..
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091102/hayden
The NYT is running a series of articles by a reporter who escaped kidnapping by the Taliban. He has on the ground, in his face, knowledge in the motivations of the Taliban and Al Queda. It is worth the read.
I still think that Georg Washington had it right in 1787, when he asked, "Why stand upon foreign shores?"
Was George a pampered cowardly liberal?