Comments on: I Got A Fever, And the Only Prescription…

By: James

James — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:02:11 +0000

I do hope Wikipedia didn’t get too many extra hits from people who didn’t get the reference in the title… that would be a shame.

By: nykrindc

nykrindc — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:49:27 +0000

A similar process is happening in Lebanon with Rafik Hariri who is now seen and indeed promoted as a national hero was martyred while trying to save his nation from Syrian domination.

This is also how the Western press has protrayed it, and how much of the West, particularly the US perceives it.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:51:47 +0000

Ismail Khan Anyone?

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:02:10 +0000

Someone I knew in Tajikistan had worked for Soviet military intelligence during the Afghanistan war, and he had access to the two-volume Soviet dossier on Massoud. He told me that after reading it, he definitely considered Massoud a heroic figure (granted, it would have been before 1992). Whether that was because Soviet intelligence was awed by him too and it was reflected in the reporting, or there was some latent feeling of common Tajikness, I don’t know.

By: Mitch H.

Mitch H. — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:00:26 +0000

But… Masood isn’t reality any more. He’s history.

The modern urge to destroy all national myths immediately upon discovery is not a helpful reflex.