It Will Take a Revolution
- Tuesday, October 14, 2014
"Five minutes, we're ready. It was thumbs up, thumbs up, we're ready to go." Kris "Tanto" Paronto, member of the six man Annex Security Team in Benghazi on 9/11/12 After a delay of nearly 30 minutes, the security team headed to the besieged consulate without orders. They asked their CIA superiors to call for armed air support, which never came.
China is grappling with simmering anger among its Muslim ethnic Uighur minority in the country's remote far west, many of whom openly complain of Chinese repression.
Let's talk reality: When the film shows jihadists storming into a village and lopping off a man's head, it understates their atrocities. I don't know what has to be done to penetrate the thick skulls of the willfully ignorant, but the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies are evil to a degree Americans (obviously) have trouble comprehending.