If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.
Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.
They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'--makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
All war aims for impunity.
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
