Stating the obvious
I just love the new(ish) “webclip” feature in gmail which adds a link to the top of the inbox featuring a headline from a recently updated website for news, entertainment, blogging, etc. I’m sure it’s just another fee-per-click advertising ploy, but I’ve read some really interesting articles I would never have seen otherwise through this feature.
Case in point: When Terrorists Go Mainstream, by Monica Duffy Toft, published in the Boston Globe and reprinted in the International Herald Tribune.
This is a really interesting article (somewhat) free from the usual rhetoric around patriotic buzzwords, dealing with the surprise Americans seem to be feeling that Hamas swept the recent democratic elections in Palestine. The real point of the article is bringing to light the fallacy that most Americans believe - that as far as “rogue nations” go, democracy = peace.