‘Balls’
November 14, 2008Insights into the little dust up in the Caucasus region last summer keeps coming into the light just about every day. The West wanted to believe the Russians were the bad guys in the Georgia…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Obama & Iran = Huh?
November 14, 2008Rhetoric dreams fade fast when confronted with political reality. Despite President-Elect Obama calling for easy, unconditional talks with just about everybody, and for quickly getting US GIs out of Iraq, reality bites the ass of…
Earth Gone
November 13, 2008UPDATE BELOW As President-Elect Obama continues a rapid transition into the White House, he faces not only the mundane problems, like the financial meltdown, wars and more wars, but also the most-major of issues: The…
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:…
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…