Facile the descent to where no birds live;
Night and day the dark gates of the Unchanged;
But to recover the stair and ascend toward the sweet light,
This is the work, this the labor.
- Aeneid 6.124
Friday, September 11, 2009
Eight Years Ago Today
Bernard Lewis makes an excellent point about the war against terrorism. We think it is a war to stop attacks from the last 50 years. Al-Qaeda, however, conceives of the war as a continuation of what began 1500 years ago!
Re: "Al-Qaeda, however, conceives of the war as a continuation of what began 1500 years ago!"
ReplyDelete- But the CIA isn't that old...
Bernard Lewis' tribe, however, conceives of the war as a continuation of what began 2000 years ago!