A dialogue on Afghanistan worth watching.
by Will on November 19, 2009
Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.
Borat, Art, and the Eye of the Beholder
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I am just listening with sadness…sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt, consult the classics [5:30 mark].
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No doubt. (Not having listened to it yet,) I was going to come over here and put an O/T comment somewhere saying this conversation has a bit of a signal-moment feel to it. These are a couple of the heavyweights of each major foreign-policy worldview. Credit to Bob Wright for bringing them together directly rather than via more neutral interlocutors, as he tends to more often to do.
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