Lost in the consuming tension of "Dancing With The Stars", overlooked by a nation too busy with the vapidity of their endless cell phone conversations and Internet celebrity gossip, ignored by a generation tuned out to the world on their insipid iPods, humanity cries out.

Baghdad Burning

How is it that only a stretch of several kilometers and maybe twenty minutes, so firmly segregates life from death?

How is it that a border no one can see or touch stands between car bombs, militias, death squads and… peace, safety? It’s difficult to believe- even now. I sit here and write this and wonder why I can’t hear the explosions.

and Steps to freedom (Free Burma Rangers)