Madam Secretary

Monday, Jan 21st: Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State and US Ambassador to the UN under Clinton, was in Denver to talk about her new book, Memo To The President Elect. Ms Albright is well known for her vigorous support of sanctions against Iraq in the 1990’s, the failure of the Clinton Administration to prevent the genocide in Rwanda, and the NATO-led war against Serbia in Kosovo and Bosnia. In Memo to The President Elect, she identifies five key global issues that the next President is going to have to deal with: terrorism, nuclear weapons proliferation, democracy, globalization, and global warming. Within the context of these five big picture issues, she talks about the ‘hot wars’ of Afghanistan and Iraq, seeing great danger to global stability and American’s reputation in the current chaos in Pakistan and the ongoing war in Iraq, which she thinks “will go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy.” Read on …

Christ, the War on Terror, & Football

Tuesday, Jan 8th: Denver Broncos placekicker Jason Elam, the two time Super Bowl Champion and one of the all time great NFL placekickers (tied with Tom Dempsey for the longest field goal in NFL history—63 yards), has written his first book, the fictional thriller Monday Night Jihad, a breathless, fast-paced pulp fiction novel which centers around Riley Covington, a linebacker for the professional football team the Colorado Mustangs (can you say “Denver Broncos”?) who discovers a terrorist plot in the US and returns to his former life as an Air Force special ops soldier to fight the War on Terror. The novel is a melange of Christianity, militarism, and football, that plugs into three major facets of modern American culture in its 353 pages. Read on …