Qat Flight to Mogadishu

I found this video recently. I shot it while I during a landing at the K50 airstrip, 50 kilometers south of Mogadishu. The airstrip was at the time under the control of Aydid they younger. The plane had been packed with bags of qat, and I had to purchase my weight in qat in order to get myself onto the plane. So did my friend, a journalist who you catch a glimpse of in the back of the plane.

God is Not Great

I've long tried to reconcile Christopher Hitchens' irrational and pigheaded support of the war in Iraq with his clear, rational, and resolute dismissal of religion. God is not Great is great. Of course, Hitchens' newly converted fans on the right with will disavow or ignore it. Their crusade against "terrorism" and Islam comes from the same blind impulse that fuels bin Laden and his followers. God is the problem, not the solution.