Robert Nicholson in Providence recounts his time spent with friends in Israel near the Lebanese border and the country’s long and fruitless efforts at making peace with neighbouring terrorist organizations. As missiles fly over head, Nicholson queries his female host about the long game. “‘How will this end?’ I asked her. ‘We destroy Hezbollah—it’s the only way. These people only understand power’,” is her pragmatic response.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.