Tag Archives: Frank Wisner

Ten Thousand and One Arabian Nights

I’ve been procrastinating all day. This is partially because, well, it’s what I do. This week’s excuse is that I’ve been waiting to see what happens in Egypt. As I wrote last week, the Obama administration can’t seem to get its head out of the desert sand and make a decision about Egypt. Or make […]

What Were We Thinking?

I was walking across campus that October afternoon when I heard the news. I rushed to the Journalism Department where the Associated Press Teletype was clattering in its insulated booth. Other J-students and professors were gathered around, tearing off the reports as they came in and silently passing them around. Anwar Sadat was dead, assassinated […]