Quote of the Day

The irony, concluded Boal, was that “the leader of Al Qaeda was defeated by the specter he feared most: a liberated western woman.”

- Anne Thompson, Indiwire, on Zero Dark Thirty

 

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Quote of the Day

In the West, one makes money in the market, and uses it to buy or influence power. In the East, one seizes power, and uses it to make money. Morally there is no difference between the two, but their impact on the economy and on the polity is very different.

-Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response