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In search of WAR!

"What if" you doggedly drew the living room window shades open one morning and this was the scene in your neighborhood... I have a particular fascination with world events, follow them daily, and find international conflicts and struggles for democracy, theocracy and anarchy WAY more interesting than our own homegrown, getting staler-by-the-day politics. With 42 countries hosting current conflicts and/or hearing the rumblings of civil war, there is plenty of material to cover and I'm always looking for better ways to do it. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." —Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Flashpoints does a terrific job of illustrating and analyzing ongoing conflicts around the world. On their website they say "Flashpoints strives to provide the information needed to make informed judgements about the nature of specific violent political conflicts , the aspirations of the advers