Leaving Afghanistan
November 12, 2008As the situation worsens in Afghanistan, some are voicing concerns whether the US should be there in the first place. Seven years along and nothing has really changed. Foreign Policy In Focus two years ago:…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Regretting the Regrets
November 12, 2008Decider George said yesterday he had regrets, most of which were some of his hardcase-cowboy, dumb-ass remarks, nothing serious, though, nothing about torture, Iraq, Katrina. “I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said,” Bush…
Vets’ Day in Real Time
November 11, 2008(Illustration in oil by Frank Quinn of Walpole, MA, can be found here). Despite the ongoing and apparently never-ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US public for the first time in years, favor the…
Bad Moon Direction
November 10, 2008Despite the joy, a new CNN poll has exposed a scared, anxious public still worried about which direction this ship of state is headed, a bit concerned the course might be plotted toward an ill-fated…
Perpetual War Everywhere
November 10, 2008War is chaos — hence the word ‘war‘ can be traced back to the Indo-European root, ‘wers,’ which is to confuse, mix up. Funny, another form derived from the same Indo-European root word had developed…
Wassup?
November 9, 2008Five days after the massive voter surge, President-Elect Obama is treading carefully on all kinds of foreign policy entanglements that have come up, and he’s displayed a sense of you can’t rush good shit in…
‘Dire’ Straits in Afghanistan
November 8, 2008A woman moves through a graveyard near Kabul in December 2001. In the first seven months of this year, at least 540 Afghan civilians were killed in fighting related to the armed conflict, and add…
‘Transition’ Fear
November 7, 2008Fear has been Decider George’s top weapon of choice the last near-eight years. So now as he gets ready to get the shit out of Dodge, fear has cropped up again during some kind of…
‘Unlucky’ My Ass!
November 6, 2008Talk about some history-freaked whiners. CNN reported this evening a bunch of straight-faced historians said Decider George has just been “unlucky” with a lot of bad shit happening on his watch, and future people might…
Kill the Bride! Afghan Weddings in the Crosshairs
November 6, 2008What’s this with US bombs and Afghan weddings? These two kids, small members of an Afghan wedding party bombed to bits by US aircraft in July 2002, killing 20 to 30 people (Illustration found here),…