Perhaps unaware of the significance of what he was saying, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told reporters in Australia that in terms of security, Iraq was “several years behind” Afghanistan.^[1] This was his way of justifying the US presence, but of course to anyone who can think straight it does the opposite. Without thinking, Rumsfeld is essentially admitting that the US turned Iraq into something akin to Afghanistan under the Taliban. …

Film Review: The Battle of Algiers Criterion Collection DVD
Any time you’re in somebody else’s land, in their country, and they don’t want you there, you weren’t invited: I think that you can just look at The Battle of Algiers and see what you’re in store for.-Spike Lee

I spent from about 6PM to midnight Saturday evening watching the 3 DVDs in the Criterion Collection release of Gillo Pontecorvo’s film The Battle of …