Still pinching myself.

[elisi]

Above picture snagged from Andrew Sullivan. He also linked to Joe Klein's latest's column, as well as looking back to one of his own articles, that I remember reading at the time (over a year ago). Just look at this quote:

Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.

And it's really happened! I just...

You know?

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

What a waonderful picture.

Although I'm not 100% sure about the idea behind the quote - Pakistani boys look at young men in India, who look indistinguishable from themselves to an outsider, and still consider them the enemy... It's a nice thought though, and it can't do any harm, even if it may not do as much good as he expects.

[elisi]

It's a nice thought though, and it can't do any harm, even if it may not do as much good as he expects.
It's certainly a step in the right direction, we can hope. *crosses fingers*

And the picture I just had to share! :)