By the sea....

I'm on vacation in Florida right now, so my posts are just to get this blog up and running. Usually I am glued to the news or counterterrorism blogs at home at some point during my day, but here at the beach - no way. I brought my Arabic software to work on my language learning while I was here, but that has fallen by the wayside while I sit and stare at the sea and scheme for the year ahead of me. *Sigh* (That's a happy sigh, btw).

A place to keep my thoughts in order

"The Last Great Debate" does not refer to my debating skills in any way, shape, or form. My debating skills suck. For me, the title refers to what I believe may be the last important debate we may face as a nation: What we, as Americans, are going to do about terrorism. I intend to use this blog as a place I can lay out my own opinions, thoughts, and analysis of events as they unfold. In the next year I plan on working on a academic paper covering female suicide bombers, and this will be a place I post my ideas as I work through them.

Friends not interested in terrorism issues may find my blog quite boring. Sometimes I'll digress to a little personal information in posts, but hopefully I'll stick with issues relevant to the biggest debate of our time.