Finally some common sense thoughts on the ‘War on Terror’. Really little more to add beyond posting the well-intentioned comments by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in an interview with CNN’s Mary LLoyd.
Article posted on CNN — “Tutu: Poverty fueling terror.”
HONG KONG, China (CNN) — The global “war on terror” can’t be won if people are living […]
Yesterday Pierre Thomas of ABC News managed to scrounge some more detailed information on an al Qaeda terrorist threat quietly reported in the never-ending avalanche of warnings, scares and less-than-comfortable terrorist updates that is our daily news fodder.
It appears that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi [’al Qaeda in Iraq’] - who was killed approximately six months ago […]
Sometimes it’s fun to be the contrarian. Especially when pitching an opposing view from my previous rambles about the U.S. and its obligation and determination to fix what is wrong with the world. So, what if the United States, the dominant and perhaps, to some, the menacing military and economic ‘hyper power’, decided enough was […]
Last week I had the pleasure of travelling to Washington DC for a conference. This was my first visit to such a distinguished city; steeped in history and representative of the most powerful nation in the world. I had many expectations and desperately keen to visit the key landmarks when given the chance - before […]
‘…let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.’
President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, FDR, gave that deeply memorable and terrifyingly accurate sentence in his first inaugural address in 1933.
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