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An excellent blog entry about Tom Friedman's Commonwealth Club speech from September 25, I have no idea who the guy is and I didn't hear the speech but apparently he said some very intelligent things:

...[Friedman] didn't breathe a word about 9/11 being caused by American imperialistic arrogance or support for Israel. In fact, he said quite the contrary-- al Qaeda is driven by cognitive dissonance arising from a "deficit of dignity", and as Friedman noted, dignity is at the heart of most of what really makes people mad.

And this which rings true for me:

[Friedman] mentioned that his travels have indicated that the "70% in favor of war" poll numbers don't appear to have any basis in reality-- but neither would the opposite be true; instead, most Americans are ambivalent and nervous about this war, because right or wrong, imperative or long overdue, this war is seen as one of choice, whereas Afghanistan was a clear-and-present-danger kind of thing.

And on an unrelated note, this entry was just plain funny, absolutely Microsoft, completely correct and totally useless!