Monika’s Pensieve

I’m following up my previous post. It’s been a few days and the USA still hasn’t even owned up to conducting the raid.

{BOOK DIARY}
I had intended to post a little about the books I’m reading, but as you may have noticed I haven’t so far ;-P I’m far from being an avid reader, but (amazingly enough) I have read a few books since moving my blog here, so it’s high time I told you about them *grin* [...]

The US is supposed to have crossed the Iraq-Syria border by helicopter and started shooting at civilians. What I totally don’t get is that the US has not given ANY comment on this. They haven’t even said anything on the lines of “we’re looking into it”.

You know how in Baadshah (a Bollywood film) there’s this pair of glasses which make you see everybody with no clothes on, so you can check if they have any weapons? Well, it’s no longer a joke, it’s real and it might be used at European airports…

When I read things like this I get very aggravated:
The tragedy happened early on in Britain’s deployment to Helmand province, at a time when 3 Para and others faced chronic shortages of everything from ammunition, helicopters and even - in some cases - food.
Few had realised the front-line would present quite such savage terrain.
Afghanistan [...]

That is the question.

Belated post, I know :] As planned, I saw three films on Friday…
Full Battle Rattle
Impressions In Short
I thought it was excellent :) A very clever way of approaching the subject matter of the war on terror.
One of the biggest strengths of the film IMO is that it’s very difficult to suss what the directors’ opinion [...]

This clip starts with pretty much the same material as in my previous post, but it gets into way more detail.