Please Be Patient

I’m still recovering from jet lag and general exhaustion while scrambling to catch up on everything that got put on hold while I went to Iraq on short notice. (I didn’t tell you this before, but I was scheduled to be in Lebanon right now before the Iraq gig came up. Looks like I would not have made it in any case.)
I don’t want to get into the quick response style of blogging just yet. First I’m composing a longish essay, a more careful and measured response than what I banged out in haste from Suleimaniya, Iraq, when I didn’t really have time.
More soon.