There is plenty of content out there to stir your anger. There is plenty to try and convince you to put it away.

But few make you think about what is actually going on.

Robert Wright’s A Real War on Terrorism series breaks down in better terms what is actually occuring and the real threats and opportunities ahead of us then anyone else. There is meat in there that will make liberals *and* conservatives angry. But if you take as a whole what he is saying – it makes sense. A must read.

Often quoted a piece that predicted all this The Clash Of Civilizations is a paper written in 1993 for Foreign Affairs magazine. Instead of giving you a direct link, the link takes you to CSMonitor’s analysis of the paper and further links so that you don’t need to read the paper in a vacuum.

Try and think of the larger picture.