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Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. So welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled seven pillars, and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is, its been absolute failure, if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a countries success or failure of the people who live there, but the catastrophe in todays middle east raises questions ....
Ojai Valley News photo by Perry Van Houten In 2018, Ojai Living Treasure Martha Ditchfield (second from right) receives a check on behalf of Ojai Valley Family Shelter from the Nordhoff High School Interact Club. Also pictured (from left) are the shelter s Ally Mills, former club members Keaton Kim and Stella Moore, and former club president Jaxson Thomas.
Ojai Valley News Senior Reporter Ojai tangerine grower Jim Churchill has known Martha Ditchfield for more than 40 years and compares her to a tractor. ....