"An Intricate Fabric Of Bad Actors Working Hand-In-Hand" – So Is War Inevitable? “An Intricate Fabric Of Bad Actors Working Hand-In-Hand” – So Is War Inevitable? Submitted by Alastair Crooke, Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described how, after a sojourn at Oxford, he came to be …