ALL AHEAD FLANK
Written to invite your thinking, these occasional essays offer my views on the wide stream of events and ideas carrying us forward. Reposted in Medium for a general audience, I look forward to longer exchanges here.
If You Want Peace, Work For Peace
Christian Science Monitor—December 2002 The end-of-year holiday season brings flurries of greeting cards touting peace. This piece offers one of my core convictions: that peace is work—our main work—not a result. GIG HARBOR, WASH.—We're all in favor of peace. But...
Building Defenses of Peace
Christian Science Monitor—October 2002 Written in the midst of what we now know was the Bush administration's callous manipulation of the UN enroute an already-decided invasion of Iraq, this piece suggests that we, the international community, need to revisit some...
The American Boiler
Christian Science Monitor—September 2002 Quoting Churchill, this column was penned a year after the 9/11 attacks. The close of the piece seems still valid: "Bin Laden was counting on us to be self-centered and self-defeating when under sustained attack. The world is...
Bin Laden’s Innovations
Christian Science Monitor—August 2002 Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda leaders continue to elude and bedevil us. Bin Laden's movement and the strategic thinking of the Islamists continues to evolve. I fear that, as discussed here, our legions of super-secret hit...