Roughly the TRUTH

Violence flares, various parties battle for political control, and with a one-way ticket to the U.S. in hand, Al Qaeda waits patiently in the screening lines of Baghdad airport. A scary scenario? Hold on to your seat, but this isn’t what happens if the U.S. pulls out of Iraq, it’s happening right now.
However, there are [...]

Here are two excellent documentries I came across today…

Why We Fight - Anatomy of the American War Machine
A quote from the film:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will [...]

An article today on Reuters | US officials seeing new home-grown terror cells, gives me hope that we may seriously begin to address the root causes of terrorism.
This quote by Scott Redd, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, really caught my attention:
“We are grappling with a whole new set of questions: what forces give rise [...]