I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.