Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either.

Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

I think war should be illegal.