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September 16, 2012Six US GIs have been killed since Friday in a conflict Mitt Romney says is just a ‘word‘, four this morning, shot dead by an Afghan soldier during a firefight with insurgents in a remote…
Category Archives: Just Plain War
CSA — Crime Scene Afghanistan
March 19, 2012Although the name of the supposedly “lone service member” who killed 16 Afghan civilians a week ago has finally emerged — Sgt. Bob Bales — the names of the victims of the rampage haven’t seen…
Afghan Reverse
March 11, 2012UPDATE BELOW From Aljazeera English: Â “We are now being told by the police sources that the US soldier left his base at three o clock this morning. It would have been pitch-black wherever he…
‘Nother ‘Nam
October 30, 2011“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. “To suggest we are on the edge of…
Canker in the ‘Predator Pie’
October 8, 2011“It’s getting a lot of attention,†the source says. “But no one’s panicking. “Yet.†(Illustration found here). The quote above comes from a Danger Room blog post on a computer virus that’s infested the US…
Toll of Endless War
October 5, 2011“How can we let this happen? How is that acceptable in the United States of America? The answer is, it’s not. It’s an outrage. And it’s a betrayal — a betrayal — of the ideals…
Dismay-In-Chief
April 13, 2011(Illustration found here via Google Images). One despicable poll out Tuesday from the American Red Cross really, really reveals just how far the US war machinery has influenced its people, especially the young. Nearly 3/5…
War in the Not-Abstract
April 8, 2011“There is nothing more wicked, more disastrous, more widely destructive, more deeply tenacious, more loathsome.” “…once war has been declared, then all the affairs of the State are at the mercy of the appetites of…
A Terrible Tale Nearly Forgotten
April 1, 2011In the face of so much bad shit going on right now — even another US theater of war in Libya — the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is taking a deep-back seat on the runaway…
Snapshot
March 23, 2011“There is a distance, a veil between us.” — ‘All Quiet On The Western Front,’ Erich Maria Remarque (Illustration found here). War as waged nowadays — slipshod and way-unnecessary — kills in ways way-beyond the…