The Golden Straitjacket Is The Defining Political-economic

I Think That The Drama Of People Rising Up Demanding Their Own Freedom Is One That Resonates Very Deeply With America. I Think That President Barack Obama Has Tried And Would Like To Find A Way To Relate To The Arab Spring, But I Think He Also Wants To Be, Rightly, Very Careful That We Don't Take It Over. It Is Very Important That They Own This. He Is Trying To Influence It This Way But Without, "we're So Never Going To Go To The Extreme Of Iraq And Putting Boots On The Ground Again."

Syria Is On The Back End Of Basically A Decade-long Drought. Over The Last Decade, Farmers And Herders Have Been Ravaged In Syria Forcing Them To Give Up And Move To Urban Areas. This Has Put A Huge Strain On Urban Resources, And It's Surely One Of The Reasons For The Uprising There.

Criticizing Israel Is Not Anti-semitic, And Saying So Is Vile. But Singling Out Israel For Opprobrium And International Sanction - Out Of All Proportion To Any Other Party In The Middle East - Is Anti-semitic, And Not Saying So Is Dishonest.

Every Sport Needs Its Temple, Its Cathedral.

Some Would Ask Which Country Am I From? We Are Supposed To Tell The Truth, [so] We Tell Them India. Some Thought It Was Indiana, Not India! Some Did Not Know Where India Is. I Said It Is The Country Next To Pakistan.