by torture secret detention and rendition human rights violations symbolized by landmarks like want hanum obey greed and the blogger airbase prison we had garnered the empathy not only of the world but the muslim world and if we had the courage to be vulnerable. we would be far safer and more secure than we are today instead we drank from that very dark licks are of nationalism journalist and author chris hedges says america's terror unleashed throughout the middle east has opened a pandora's box of evil estimates are over a million iraqi dead since the invasion. you know hundreds and hundreds of civilians killed in pakistan thousands killed in afghanistan not to mention millions of people displaced in a refugee camp some of the terror that we have unleashed will not go on paid it is and it will strike us eventually however in a post nine eleven america citizens have been forced to compromise their fear. redone in the name of security the past decade has paved the way for a new state practices such as warrantless wiretapping intrusive airport screening and greater authority for law enforc