These (Rogue) States

The US meddling in the Horn of Africa hasn't received much coverage in the news or much attention in Congress. Judis provides a disturbing update.

Civilian life has become very cheap to US policymakers when they use an AC-130 gunship to hunt down a single terrorist.

Daily the world seems to become more and more like the dystopia portrayed in Children of Men, a dystopia in which the indiscriminate brutality and inhumanity of the radicals/terrorists is matched and sometimes exceeded by the indiscriminate brutality and inhumanity of the government.