Washout Terror War
November 1, 2008In the quick wake of Sept. 11, 2001, Decider George set the banner in the winds of war. In a national address that night, he set the tone for the next seven years, blubbering: “The…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Booby-trapped Left-Overs
October 30, 2008Lurching to a finish, Decider George will leave the next president a foreign policy situation worse-than a can of big, ugly worms. This particular can, however, is way-different, thus making the worms way-different — they’ve…
Piracy Now!
October 29, 2008Shipping in and out of the Red Sea is undergoing some old-time, real-violent incidents with pirates, so much so there seems to be a crisis in an ability to handle it. Information Dissemination, the best…
Treasure-Hearts of Darkness
October 28, 2008Despite all, wars keep warring. In Africa’s heart, seemingly all-perpetual war keeps hacking away at history, yesterday, today and tomorrow. The machete-AK-47 adventure continued in earnest on Monday as UN peacekeepers attempt to mount a…
Syria Now!
October 27, 2008Why now indeed? After all these years, the US pulls a punch out of its bag of latent tricks and popped a farmhouse inside Syria on Sunday, supposedly chasing after some bad al-Qaeda types from…
Blood Down the Oil Hole
October 24, 2008Iraq is the nightmare version of Alice’s surreal Rabbit Hole. There’s blood on the walls. (Illustration was found here). When Decider George invaded Iraq in 2003 — carried out over the bodies of US GIs…
3rd-Worlded
October 23, 2008The real race problem in the US — economics. And despite Booker T. Washington‘s approach, African-Americans are getting the short-end of the paycheck stick. An UN Report today: Levels of economic disparity in major US…
Osama’s Endorsement
October 21, 2008UPDATE BELOW While Barack Obama snagged Colin Powell’s endorsement on Sunday, Jackboot John McCain has received thumbs up support from Osama and his boys. According to the today’s Washington Post, al-Qaeda has claimed the best…
Press, Press, Pull: Failure of the Media
October 18, 2008Only logic can save the day. As a kid (and even now as an ‘adult’), I loved the insane violence, and memory brings up a little bit about the media. In one of those The…
Shredding the Troops
October 17, 2008Warriors in that happy-go-lucky city-state of ancient Sparta either can back with their shield, or on it. Veterans from US wars, however, especially those from the little-horrors currently in Iraq and Afghanistan, have no protective…