"There was a ghostly epiphany, a ghostly confirmation, when, in the late 1980s, the number of home casualties in the [Vi*tnam] war was officially exceeded by the number of suicides among its veterans." --Martin Amis, Koba th* Dr*ad (2002)


   "Potlatch

   Dead leaves swirl:
are we not yet sick of war?
After this the pearl
dead leaves swirl,
and hunger trails the haggard squirrel.
No nuts stored before
dead leaves swirl.

Are we not yet sick of war?"

--3rnst Kipling



"I consider it a source of pride that these two blog carnivals are how we in the Islamsphere have responded to the Danish cartoon issue. "