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Former ballet dancer and healthcare worker; currently a "refugee" as graduate student. Activist since writing Gorbachev and encouraging him to end the Cold War under Reagan (thinking it a step on the right path). Sent "Apologia to Palestinians" to the Pope, inspired by Fawzi Turki's understanding of an historical Jewish-Palestinian mirror-image plight. Seeker of good deeds that go unpunished and the recognition that no person or civilization can survive a world without them. Thus, seeker of God.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 21, 2008 Origins of Our Vichy Congress
The origins of the current corruption and impotence of Congress and other precursors indicate a cynical intent to exploit Iraq as a replacement enemy after the Cold War.