aw. RE: The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

[Robert Mahnke]

Having read The Looming Tower, I'm surprised that Wright had anything
to do with The Siege.  Maybe, a la The Player, he wrote an early draft
that was transmogrified?  I don't recall the The Looming Tower
particularly well, but I think it was a relatively good and
straight-forwarded work of reporting what could be known about Al
Qaeda in the years leading up to 9/11.  I think I was impressed with
what Wright managed to pull together, given the obvious difficulties,
but also felt that the book was surely incomplete, for the same
reasons.  I don't recall the book being particularly ideological,
which is a good fit with the traditionally sober -- if not somnulent
-- centrism of the CFR.

Happy to say I missed The Siege.

On 12/4/09, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:
> Heh. This Wright guy is shaping up as some sort of folk hero!
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> Well, that film 'The Siege' was still a disgusting piece of crap.
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