“…grinding mankind to dust.”
“For [Obama's] beloved middle ground is elusive, nowhere more so than in the Middle East. As Updike noted in 1966, ‘It is in middles that extremes clash.’
“Or, as he wrote 40 years later in ‘Terrorist,’ ‘History is a machine perpetually grinding mankind to dust.’
Our hopes, not least.”
(Roger Cohen, writing in the New York Times, 6/08/2009)
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