"Tôi bay đến Rome vào ngày mai Cha mẹ tôi sống ở đó Tôi có một vé cho bạn trên chuyến bay của tôi. Mọi thứ sụp đổ ở đây đã có để có được." Ông đưa cho tôi một vé máy bay. Tôi không nghi ngờ anh ta cho một thời điểm. Tại Rome, chúng tôi ăn tối với cha mẹ của Farhad. Cha ông, Iran đã nghỉ hưu | that challenged the Bush administration. Just before the September 11 attacks Washington was considering its options. The EHMs had failed was it time to send in the jackals Then 9 11 changed all priorities. President Bush and his advisers focused on rallying the world community to support . activities in Afghanistan and an invasion of Iraq. On top of that the . economy was in the middle of a recession. Venezuela was relegated to a back burner. However it was obvious that at some point Bush and Chavez would come to blows. With Iraqi and other Middle Eastern oil supplies threatened Washington could not afford to ignore Venezuela for long. Wandering around Ground Zero and Wall Street meeting the old Afghan man and reading about Chavez s Venezuela brought me to a point I had avoided for many years and it forced me to take a hard look at the consequences of the things I had done over the past three decades. I could not possibly deny the role I had played or the fact that my work as an EHM now affected my daughter s generation in very negative ways. I knew I could no longer postpone taking action to atone for what I had done. I had to come clean about my life in a manner that would help people wake up to the fact of corporatocracy and understand why so much of the world hates us. I started writing once again but as I did so it seemed to me that my story was too old. Somehow I needed to bring it up to date. I considered traveling to Afghanistan Iraq and Venezuela and writing a contemporary commentary on those three countries. They seemed to embody an irony of current world affairs each had undergone traumatic political turmoil and ended up with leaders who left a great deal to be desired a cruel and despotic Taliban a psychopathic Saddam and an economically inept Chavez yet in no case did the corporatocracv respond by attempting to solve the deeper problems of these countries. Rather the response was simply to undermine leaders who stood in the way of our oil .
