Honor an American Hero

Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French philosopher and writer. His most recent book is Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against The New Barbarism. Here is his advice for President-Elect Obama.

From Reader's Digest

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I think, Mr. President, one of our first acts should be to have erected in the center of Karachi a monument in memory of Daniel Pearl. It would render justice to one of today’s great American heroes. And it would test the true, that is, concrete and symbolic, reliability of your Pakistani ally.

From Reader's Digest - January 2009

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