In the aftermath of the horrific terrorist bombing in Brussels (and all the others that have taken place over the past year), all of us would be wise to go back and re-watch the fifth season of Homeland.  This is the one in which our heroine, Carrie Mathison, has left the CIA and decamped to Berlin to work as a security consultant for a wealthy philanthropist, Otto During.  The season, which began airing in September 2015, pretty much presages everything that has happened in the last year, even though it was written and filmed well before that.  In short, the fact that the terrorists have steadily gained in strength and territory was easily predictable. Granted, the writers and producers of the series have an Israeli connection; Gordon Raff is Israeli-born and no doubt has a more realistic understanding of Islamic terrorism than most Americans.  One only has to check in at The Religion of Peace to see a catalog of terrorist attacks that have occurred...(Read Full Post)