A beautiful blue-sky day and a very enjoyable run.
An Hindu cleric quoted the Bhagavad Gita on the radio this morning to suggest that important decisions should be made in a state of calm and clear-sighted attachment to the truth, rather than in one of blind attachment to our own self-centred agenda. This is a lesson to be heeded by western governments as popular uprisings continue to spread in the Middle East, and as military intervention in Libya slowly creeps away from the initial UN resolution into a bloody and apparently endless mess like the conflict in Afghanistan – where there are now faint but hopeful signs of a 3rd way to finding a solution without appeasing the Taliban or being subject to western imperialism, as the National Movement (Besij e Melli) gains momentum, apparently inspired by those same popular uprisings in the Middle East (BBC).
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