A Soviet Bedtime Story: Obama’s Afghan Game
March 2, 2009Been there, done that. President Obama’s recent order to put 17,000 more US GIs in Afghanistan may be a move made too late, or in light of history, a shift toward disaster regardless of the…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Afghan Bog
February 27, 2009Why the US is losing the “hearts and minds” of the Afghan population: Between 1-2am on the rainy night of 16 January 2008, a large number of international military personnel wearing desert camouflage surrounded the…
Wonder with Stevie Wonder
February 26, 2009This dream-like, can’t-believe-my-eyes presidency continues: “And I think it’s fair to say that had I not been a Stevie Wonder fan, Michelle might not have dated me. We might not have married. The fact that…
‘Climate Storm’ — Unstoppable Catastrophic Calamity
February 25, 2009In what could be a major metaphor for the entire climate change debate occurred Tuesday, starting first at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and ending up in the Indian Ocean near Antarctica. NASA and…
‘It’s the Economy, Stupid’
February 24, 2009“Why ain’t they turning?” — Frederick Fleet, in the crows nest of the Titanic. (Illustration found here). As President Obama prepares for a major speech tonight to a joint session of Congress — a State…
Afghan Rabbit Hole
February 22, 2009A lot of verbiage was tossed about last week on President Obama’s approval of 17,000 more US troops for Afghanistan, and even the country’s president declared “We have opened a new page” in the conflict.…
After the Precipice
February 20, 2009A now-no-longer-forgotten war, the ponderous grind-down conflict in Afghanistan is getting some payback time in the press. Although economic news played up front in the US — President Obama announced Wednesday his homeowners bailout plan,…
Corrupted Culture
February 18, 2009Corruption rot spawned from lies. The entire Iraqi misadventure is a horror-shame of an affair. From UK’s The Independent on Monday: In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American…
Drone Ownward
February 14, 2009The future is still here — “the first time a combat vehicle has used a laser to shoot down a UAV.” (Illustration of General Atomics Predator UAV found here). This morning another report of yet…