CIA Me Not
August 5, 2009Although I’ve been working on some other projects the past few days, this came up last weekend and is such a glaring example of how this country in reality will never recover from the last…
Category Archives: War & Politics
‘Tragedy’ Escalates
July 29, 2009Despite tough tours in Iraq, an even-more persistent and deadly situation: But he says he never encountered an enemy as tenacious as what he saw immediately after arriving at this outpost in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.…
‘Same Donkey…New Saddle’
July 25, 2009An example of why this so-called ‘War on Terror’ is such a complete, abysmal failure. Sen. James Webb, Democrat from Virginia, has called for an investigation into the details surrounding an attack on a US outpost…
The Dick Bourne Identity and the World as ‘Free Fire Zone’
July 23, 2009Seymour Hersh had ’em nailed all along. From the New Yorker online: They want to turn these guys into assassins,†a former high-level intelligence officer told me. “They want to go on rumors — not…
Exit
July 22, 2009In the realm of stalemate/quagmire: But after nearly eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, the war’s strategic rationale still remains tenuous. Central Asia holds little intrinsic strategic value to the United States, and America’s security…
‘Please, please bring us home…’
July 21, 2009Four more US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Monday and this morning news of eight suicide bombers striking government compounds in two eastern towns as this near-decade-long war is going from bad to worse to even…
The Afghan Cannon-Fodder Stare
July 15, 2009Two US marines were killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan, two more died Monday, while the UK lost eight soldiers in a swift, 24-hour period at the end of last week — a war getting worse and…
Afghan Again
July 11, 2009Last fall, I read Frederick Forsyth’s The Afghan, which contains a view of the riot/battle at Qala-i-Jangi fort in November, 2001, exposing the US public to a view of some ferocious insurgency fighting in those…
D-Day Perspective
June 6, 2009Here on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion comes an odd historical look at the Normandy landings from an altogether different perspective: The civilian inhabitants along that particular French Coast. And according to history,…
‘IRF-ed’ — Biblically Speaking
May 17, 2009The terror/shame of America. (Illustration found here). Similar to peeling the layers off one rotten-assed onion, the horrors of the last presidential administration continues to strike nausea and shame into the very hearts of any…