There are many helpful sites on the Internet that can provide real news on the war against Islamofascist terrorism, including the war in Iraq, but I want to recommend this one now, The Long War Journal:http://www.longwarjournal.org/ It, in turn, will lead you to various sites that offer current reports from the many fronts of what is, yes, "The Long War".
Did you know about the successful meeting of 300 tribal leaders just held in Iraq? An earlier meeting that was disrupted by the terrorists managed to make the news, but mainly because of the attack, not because of the positive organizational commitments being made by the tribes.
Did you know about the capture of Iranian trained militia, especially in the detail given at this site?
Or the foreign fighters killed in the past two days in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Sadly, there often are few ways to find out this kind of thing from the mainstream media. They are too busy trying to convict the private contractors of Blackwater. That is because they hope that Blackwater might write what many in the media regard as the only valid script for Iraq: U.S. failure. There are many fine reporters covering facets of the war against terrorists, but the daily headlines seems to have concentrated on problems with the U.S., especially anything that could be worked up as a scandal. We are seen as the center of attention. The focus is rather chauvinistic, in its perverse way.
In contrast, can you rely on the accuracy of The Long War Journal? I don't don't know its provenance, but I do note that its accounts cite officials in government (ours and others) and the military as sources. Its scope is truly global.
So, friends, is the war. And this historic global war is not mainly about us--certainly not in Thailand or Indonesia or even Somalia. It is not about us when the terrorists' cells are uncovered in Europe. It is about fanatical Islamists out to undermine Muslim countries first, and then the West.
