Shlonkom Bakazay?

Last night, I was all a bluster and so very angry. Naomi Klein articulated at length with eloquence about many of the fears that have been both bottled and leaking (from I the bottle via blog and heated discussion) during the last several years. She writes in Harpers Magazine, Baghdad Year Zero

Iraq was to the neocons what Afghanistan was to the Taliban: the one place on Earth where they could force everyone to live by the most literal, unyielding interpretation of their sacred texts.

I needn't say more. Read the article. Read it especially if you want to know a few of the things that make me angry.

Extremism and religious zealotry of all kinds usually fit in the same tea cup.