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Atom bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961: UK paper Reuters – Fri, 20 Sep, 2013 Various articles report: Fallout could have spread over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York City, the paper said, threatening the lives of millions of people. 260 times more powerful than the device that destroyed Hiroshima , according to a declassified report published Friday in The Guardian. The accident happened just three days after President John F Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961. image from:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/world/asia/pakistan-church-bombing.html?ref=world Scores Are Killed by Suicide Bomb Attack at Historic Church in Pakistan Tunisian women 'waging sex jihad in Syria' The article states: Tunisian women have travelled to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by comforting Islamist fighters battling the regime there, Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou has told MPs. "They have sexual relations with...

Note: I don't claim to be an expert on early American colonial and settler life and the conflict with Native Americans.  If my history is at all off, alert me to it and understand that I am seeking to make a comparison with the current conflict, not to demean, diminish or alter history to my own ends.   In the early period of American history, colonialists and settlers had two different types of Native Americans to deal with. There were the ones who sought to peacefully co-exist with the pale-faces and yet have a land for themselves that had been theirs for centuries. In addition, there were those who were rightly called savages. Warring tribes without regard for age or gender would assault the pale-faced intruders with stealth and severity. One of the most feared techniques was the scalping of their victims. As word spread, fear did too and all Native Americans got lumped in with their savage counterparts. Slanderous generalizations caused much death, destruction and ...

When the Arab Spring came to the Middle East, hope rose in the West that this marked a new, positive, democratic and free Middle East in the making.  Events since then have dashed that hope on the rocks of reality.  Image obtained at:  http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/university-front-line-arab-spring Nearly parallel to this development were the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the nation-building efforts there, American withdrawal and the subsequent state of persecution, in Iraq particularly.  Check out how U.S. foreign policy has impacted Christians in the region: Afghanistan: Despite the U.S. invasion, expulsion of the Taliban from power, its efforts to install a more pro-American government there and rebuild the country, persecution of Christians is still a huge threat.   Iraq:  The U.S. invasion of Iraq and the subsequent fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the Baath party there has resulted in a chilling unintended consequence: “In 20...