Thanks for your comment. I don’t agree with me, either! Or rather, I would prefer not to. But boy howdy, is the evidence ever mounting. Malcolm Gladwell recently was quoted as saying that the first thing he’d do if he were becoming a writer today would be to get a master’s degree in statistics. The Gallup Pakistan stats don’t lie — people fear us and hate us, overwhelmingly. Combine that with what we’re doing with drones — not what we say we’re doing, but what the people who have been at the wedding parties and other gatherings have photographed and documented that we’re doing — and everything that is logical and true argues against our present course. So does Matt Hoh’s testimony, and Matt is a USMC captain, retired, who believes in capping bad guys. He just knows that we’re scorching a thousand little kids for every bad guy we get, and that’s going to come back to bite us. Unless the “us” is the guys making Predators and A-10s and Hellfire missiles.

I hope Obama proves me wrong. I can’t imagine they don’t have a hand in at Amazon since Amazon already approved the book and had it for sale. I wrote something strong about the President yesterday, and today you can’t buy my book. I rather doubt Amazon is reading my blog that closely. But I sent what I wrote to the President, as I always do, and presto! It doesn’t prove anything. It raises a troubling question, that’s all.

I have hope for him. It’s why I do what I do. (That, and the photo of Samar Hassan, and all the other photos.) But he’s up against some very powerful, very bent people. That, or he’s with them.

Thanks for your comment,
Brian