I will reserve full judgment of Coates' book until I read it, but the interviews I have seen with him make me think of this Einat Wilf quote: "It kind of began to be part of a series of experiences that already I began to have, where I would visit different cultures. I have an experience in South Africa, in Northern Ireland, in Ireland, and in the United States. And I would see how they would project their own issues onto our conflict in a way that literally made no sense." 1/7