War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
“Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet…
Watching Jack Bauer is like watching real-time terrorism at work — is everybody a terrorist? Are those real-nasty and indiscriminate drone attacks into Pakistan last week, after apparently President Obama gave the thumbs up, be considered terrorism? What about that US Special Forces attack earlier this month in eastern Afghanistan — another heated disagreement between…
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, would any leader react like George Jr., coming forth with incoherent strategy and bluster, only to create a far more disastrous conditional aftermath? History does have a fond way of repeating itself, but would one guy view the situation the same as another, or does brains and cool overcome…
One building agenda-item in President Obama’s gnarly smorgasbord of agenda-items is the dangerous, weird-ass situation in Afghanistan. Despite new supply routes to bypass nasty Pakistan, the US presence in country is about to strike another, harder chord. Pakistan, however, still remains front and center. And Obama is apparently staying the course, okaying a drone attack…
All day long President Obama played out across the airwaves — I listened to NPR at work, just about every aspect of the inauguration proceedings analyized, and little snippets caught between customers were dreary and boring. An odd, flat day. Read and see the whole shebang here and even see Decider George get booed here,…
This morning is historic — an end of nightmares and bad daydreams, an inauguration of optimism, or at the very least, minimizing the impact-reality of those true vapor visions. (Illustration of “Joy of New Beginnings” by Chidi Okoye found here). Watching the news coverage of the run up to Barack Obama’s inauguration ushers up memories…
In an uncertain age, President-Elect Obama’s inauguration Tuesday is a security nightmare — more than three million people expected to attend, creating an armed camp around the US capitol. (Illustration found here). A big, frightful pause in Obama’s security is the obnoxious, cadaverous head of the obnoxious Homeland Security apparatus, Michael Chertoff, who really could…
See a list thrown up there in wide-open spaces. Think Progress has an incredible serial-names roll call of Decider George’s minions — caretakers as in Sarah Palin — during the past eight gruesome years. Read it here.
As Decider George gets ready to leave, there’s nothing better than to send his ass flying out the door. Although still in jail, Iraqi shoe bomber Muntadhar al-Zeidi turned 30 on Thursday: “Muntadhar was in a good shape … and his morale was high. Yesterday was his birthday and some patriotic officers there organized a…
Another brick in the wall. The DOD’s IG says the DOD did nothing illegal in the DOD’s TV news military analysts program: But in the new report, the inspector general’s office, noting the absence of a clear legal definition of propaganda, said there was an “insufficient basis†to conclude that the program had violated laws…