Hi all!

I'm back at ADPi. Needless to say, being back as a factotum is completely mind-bending. The house is essentially unchanged except, perhaps, for being even nicer than I remember it. The question the summer will answer--made all the more urgent by my Jamie sighting at the Telluride Association Convention this weekend--is whether I'm the Jamie or the Monica. Time will tell...


To Aimee--I don't think there's any question that our involvement overseas has largely created Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the main force we're fighting in Iraq. The war was a mistake, but I think there was probably as much idealism (Paul Wolfowitz would be one such idealist) as cynicism behind it. While invading Afghanistan may not have been strictly necessary, there are many observers who think that a muscular response to terrorist attacks is the best way to deter future attacks. There's probably at least some truth in that.

-Matt

P.S. Jamie has a grown-out buzz cut. He's been teaching Kaplan courses lately and doing some other jobs. This fall he's heading to Florida to pursue in M.F.A in fiction.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [10:47 AM]

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