From Nov 2005 Article "Dubai" in GQ Magazine:
"What one might be tempted to call simplicity could be more accuarately called a limited sphere of expericnce. We round up "a suspected Taliban member" in Afganistan and, assuming that Taliban means the same thing to him as it does to us (a mob of intransigent inconvertible Terrorists), whisk this sinister Taliban member- who grew up in, and has never once left, what is essentially the Appalachia of Afghanistan; who possibly joined the Taliban in response to the lawlessness of the post-Russinan warlord state, in the name of bring some order and morality to his life or in a misguided sense of religious fervor- off to Guantanamo, where he's treated as he personally planned 9/11. Then this provincial, quite possibly not-guilty, certainly rube-like guy, whose view of the world is more limited than we can even imagine, is denied counsel and a possible release date, and subjected to all of the hardships and deprivations our modern military-prison system can muster. How must this look to him? How must
we look to him?"
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