The farcical nature of the post-911 attack on ’terrorists’ was brought out to me by Ibraham Warde, who appeared on “Foreign Exchange” this week. His account of the pursuit we tend to think of as “following the money” was so engaging, I looked up an account of the activity he had written earlier. It gives a really spectacular overview of our clownish cabal. It also points out that typically, small sums of clean money (not illegally obtained) are used to fund acts of terror  Read more