December 01, 2001
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Cassandra of the....century?
Niall Ferguson's article in the New York Times Magazine is a doozie:
Take the long view. What will New York be like on Sept. 11, 2011? It's not difficult to imagine a rather wretched future. You need only visit one of those cities -- Jerusalem or Belfast -- that have been fractured by terrorism and religious strife to get a glimpse. Imagine a segregated city, with a kind of Muslim ghetto in an outer borough that non-Muslims can enter only -- if they dare -- with a special endorsement on their ID cards. Imagine security checkpoints at every tunnel and bridge leading into Manhattan, where armed antiterrorist troops check every vehicle for traces of explosives and prohibited toxins.I'm going to read it again later, but I've already seen some incredible logical leaps in the text. In the meantime, however, I should be enjoying this December summer day with my kids, who clearly have a better future than this, and get back to it later. Ciao amici! Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at December 1, 2001 01:33 PM | Technorati inbound links