PantyFanatic,

As I have tried, and failed, to do before, let me again suggest that there are issues that cannot be usefully reduced to a one-liner or newsbite. International terrorism is one of those issues. If treating it so tries your patience, so be it.

And no, the world is not in the shitter. It is better now than it has been in many ways. Reduction in illiteracy, availability of clean potable water, the improvement in status of both women and children throughout the world are only some of those many ways.

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Eudaimonia