War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
US military commanders are apparently up to doing whatever it takes to further cloud an ugly, inevitable truth of a botched war and an even more botched war plan in rolling back history. From the Washington Post: The deployment of a company of M1 Abrams tanks, which will be fielded by the Marines in the…
The so-called war in Afghanistan will apparently never end. Just when one thinks there’s a light at the end of the IED-blasted tunnel, it turns out the flicker is just military commanders flicking their Bics. UK’s Defense Chief Gen. Sir David Richards stoked the never-ending war fires last week, invoking a conflict that could last “generations:”…
Osama bin Laden has to be way-laughing through his terror-obstructed ass. (Illustration found here). Air travel in the US can be a pain in the nut-sack. American traveler John Tyner unloaded a notorious phrase this past weekend when he was searched prior to boarding a plane in San Deigo, telling a TSA employee, “If you…
In just a few words, the current plight of mankind: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.†— Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe Despite some scientists saying humanity will take true…
(Illustration found here). The situation in Afghanistan has gone from real-bad, to worse, to down-right shitty. Eleven NATO troops were killed over the weekend — seven on Saturday — bringing the ugly total to 32 for November, and there’s still time left to increase the body count before the end of the month — the…
“But February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn’t take one more step. — ‘American Pie,’ Don McLean Surfing Internet news sites can be overly-depressing. Any kind of news nowadays is depressing — beware of those bearing glad tidings, they either don’t want to upset you, or…
Warmongering sonofabitches. Instead of the number 11, US military officials actually meant the number 14 — President Obama on announcing his so-called ‘Afghan surge’ last year blubbered US troops would begin a drawdown in July 2011, but now it seems he was some three years off. Defense honcho Bullet-Bob Gates and a warmongering warning to…
Veteran’s Day 2010 — A continuing, seemingly-never ending festival of sad. (Illustration found here). Adieu to a Soldier — Walt Whitman Adieu O soldier, You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,) The rapid march, the life of the camp, The hot contention of opposing fronts, the long manoeuvre, Red battles with their slaughter, the…
War-making equipment down through history has on many occasions been transferred to civilian uses, some of these shifts have been bad, some good and some creepy-dangerous. George Orwell would blow chunks nowadays at the direction military technology is taking, making an eye in the sky a normal every-day part of modern life. (Illustration found here).…
One of the things I’ve always wondered about is how do people who’ve done obvious shitty stuff in public handle themselves? How do they view themselves in a mirror, how do they sleep at night knowing they caused needless horror and suffering — despite my disbelief, I have to keep in mind a lot of…