A sad fate for out-of-work science writers... John oddly cheered by news about prostate exams... George’s sleepover at the Vatican Observatory... The postmodern flavor of Galileo’s persecutors... Ancient violence and the fear of being eaten... Why John’s hoping for the end of war...
You realize again from this speech just how utterly different the rationale was for the war at the start than it is now: to "defend the world from grave danger." There was no grave danger. How the US government could have been so incompetent in making such a serious charge remains bewildering to me. How I was so credulous still shames me.
I feel Sullivan's pain because I supported the war in the beginning as well. But I was a foolish 20-year-old undergrad at the time--not an excuse, just an explanation. Never again will I be so easily duped.
Peter’s latest book, “Wired for War”... How robots helped make the Iraq surge a success... Do America’s high-tech weapons do more harm than good?... The DARPA Grand Challenge as 21st century Manhattan Project... Will you someday have to give up your bus seat to a cyborg?... Why the robotics revolution won’t end war...
