They kept rising upon us like that, all day; faint points and shapes, looming larger, bluer, surer, — but always so soft, so spiritsome!

The official account of this meeting was that it ended in failure, with the Taliban's mullah Omar telling General Ahmed, “Osama will be the last person to leave Afghanistan.” The 9/11 skeptics believe that meeting was meant to fail.

His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.

The men I said yes to went home to their old ladies whistling a happy tune, high on vitamin O, relieved because I never hassled them when they said they couldn't spend the night.