War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In an ugly sense of an unconscious daydream, another natural tragedy has struck the US with its leader again out to lunch, or in this case, dinner: About 36,000 Iowans were evacuated because of statewide flooding, 24,000 of them in Cedar Rapids. The massive flooding has overwhelmed the city — which is in a 500-year…
In the few months left to him as king of the world, Decider George is seeking out his nemesis, the biggest bogeyman of them all — Osama bin Laden. President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House. Defence and…
The most forgotten war in modern times has returned to the forefront with a vengeance: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said. The bomb in the western province of Farah targeted…
Although Decider George reportedly majored in history at Yale, we all know what he did was party. People who major in things like history, usually also like to read. Decider George is not a book-kind-of-guy. He’s more into strutting, and saying dumb-ass things like telling Scott McClellan they’d end up pals years from now, all…
In order to get through each and every day, many of us medicated ourselves to cope. Whatever: A glass of Jack Daniels on the rocks, or smoke a bowl — means seems to justify the end. How about each and every day there’s horror, death and destruction? Data contained in the Army’s fifth Mental Health…
If Sen. Barack Obama becomes President Obama in November, all the change in the world, even all the king’s men and horses and US peoples may not be able to correct the horror. Although a smorgasbord of shredded Americana faces the next commander-in-chief, Iraq is like the unmovable object being hit by an unstoppable force.…
A strong, coherent voice, crying in the wilderness has gone. William E. Odom, 75, a retired Army lieutenant general who was a senior military and intelligence official in the Carter and Reagan administrations and who, in recent years, became a forceful critic of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died May 30 at his vacation home…
In watching the world spin away its last few hours, we wondered (not aloud as we were alone) about whether history will continue or maybe would soon change direction and leave no sign of this generation’s passing. And all those who led up to this generation. History’s root comes in the unfolding of three Greek…