Life in the Land of the Pure

I freely stolen that line from Thomas Friedman’s book “From Beirut to Jerusalem” because, as you probably now    know, we had ourselves a little near war crisis last spring …. When I starred this post. Terrorists who may be connected to the Pakistani government (still no attribution for the attack)    killed a group of tourists in Indian Kashmir on April 22, and as has been the case in the past, the Indian government sought some form of retribution. In 2001-02 it was a major military buildup on the border, in 2016 it was a commando raid, and in 2019 it was a bombing.  The question that follows is, what has howard doing during the crisis? Hunkering down in a bunker?    Stockpiling water and medicines?    Filling sandbags?    Not exactly.  For much of the time between the terrorist attack    and India’s combined air-missile attack on Pakistan, the days were pretty normal.    Saturday mornings began with the Fa...