We made our big, militant bed. Now we have to climb in…

This is the sort of insanity that has spun from the actions of the Bush administration. It’s the manifest creation of a global culture of war and war-mongering that’s come not only to represent what our “New America” means to the rest of the world, but that’s come to define the de facto standard of war-play for the rest of the world, too. From the article:

“We will not sit (with arms folded) to wait for what others will do to us. Some military commanders in Iran are convinced that preventive operations which the Americans talk about are not their monopoly,” Shamkhani told Al-Jazeera TV when asked if Iran would respond to an American attack on its nuclear facilities.

“America is not the only one present in the region. We are also present, from Khost to Kandahar in Afghanistan; we are present in the Gulf and we can be present in Iraq (news - web sites),” said Shamkhani, speaking in Farsi to the Arabic-language news channel through an interpreter.

“The US military presence (in Iraq) will not become an element of strength (for Washington) at our expense. The opposite is true, because their forces would turn into a hostage” in Iranian hands in the event of an attack, he said.

The controversy over Kerry and the swiftboat nonsense aside, who is there to whom we can point that will pledge to adopt principles of peace and political deceleration?

“Tower Stories” hits shelves [update]

Received this from a dear friend. Thank you, Damon, and congratulations on a job well-done.

Dear friends,

I’m proud to announce the publication of Tower Stories: the Autobiography of September 11th. Foreword by Tom Kean, Chairman of the 9/11 Commission.

This book presents interviews I conducted with survivors, witnesses, volunteers, paramedics, policemen, firemen, political experts, and family members immediately after 9/11. My goal was to create the most comprehensive first-person oral history available so that September 11th might always be remembered as it really happened. In this way, we might come to a deeper degree of understanding . . . what happened that day, why it happened, and how we are forever changed.

“This volume defends the understanding, as also the horror, of that day. We are indebted to mr. dimarco for the effort and for the editorial acuity.” – William F. Buckley

Portions of the book’s proceeds will be donated to a worthy charity founded by a victim of the attack.

Tower Stories will be available in bookstores everywhere in hardcover from Revolution Publishing by late August; advanced orders can be placed now on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com.

Best wishes,

Damon DiMarco

[update]

Looks like there’s a signing coming up…

There will a book signing for Tower Stories at Rocky Sullivan’s bar (129 Lex between 28 and 29th) in conjunction with Shakespeare and Co. at 8 p.m. on Wednesday the 25th of August. Copies of the book will be available and of course, the bar will be open. Hope you can attend.