Tuesday, August 06, 2013
What is going on?
If you haven't been following the news too closely, you may have missed the recent reports on closures of US embassies in the middle east, based on reported terrorist threats from an Al Queda affiliate.
There hasn't been much information made public about what the threats are, but it is deeply unsettling, in two respects. First, the bare fact of the threats and what they might mean. Second, the fact that we can know there is a danger without quite knowing what it is. War has become very gray that way, hasn't it?
There hasn't been much information made public about what the threats are, but it is deeply unsettling, in two respects. First, the bare fact of the threats and what they might mean. Second, the fact that we can know there is a danger without quite knowing what it is. War has become very gray that way, hasn't it?
