War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Despite all the posturing, the US is a war-like nation. (Illustration found here). War has always been in the vital interests of the US — starting from day one, but officially most-likely from the Pequot War in 1637 with 11 wars fought before the so-called Revolutionary War and 30 even prior to the Civil War, a shitload…
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! — Lewis Carroll (Illustration found here). A surreal snapshot of a horrifying, nonsensical moment in time: The Iraqi invasion just might end up being the greatest man-made disaster in all of human history. Lewis Carroll created some wild shit with his wacked-crazy use of disambiguation — meaning…
Ironic in an age of such brain-busting technology, such a simple device can cause such horror. Four US soldiers were killed last Sunday in a roadside IED blast in eastern Afghanistan, three of those from the Illinois National Guard — 11 from its ranks have now died since the unit arrived in country last September.…
Today six years ago, one of the most dumb-ass and dangerous operations in all of history started up and despite all kinds of processes to the contrary, is still going full banana with no end in sight. Just as the eyeballs of the whole US was focused Wednesday morning on DC — AIG CEO Edward…
Been 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 number of boots on the ground. Despite conflicting opinions from the Afghan people, Obama should also take stock in what…
Why 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 house of two brothers living in a two-family house in Kandahar. According to various family members, the soldiers knocked loudly…
A 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. One needs, however, to check that page against the book from which it comes. (Illustration found here). The problem is…
The 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 another unmanned aerial vehicle — UAV, or “drone” — attack on a suspected insurgent hideout in Pakistan. From the New…
Dying in Iraq is down: In January, 138 civilians were killed in violence across the country, compared with 238 in December, according to the figures, based on data collected by Iraq’s Health, Defense and Interior ministries. Who’s keeping tab? And those doing so, can they be trusted? (Illustration found here). Despite all the ha-ha-ha-ha about…
daymare Pronunciation: \ˈdÄ-ËŒma(É™)r, -ËŒme(É™)r\ Function: noun : a nightmarish fantasy experienced while awake (Illustration of the Darul Aman palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, found here). Afghanistan is one lonely country, and apparently so, becoming more lonely with each passing day. Down through history, the Afghan motif has been the graveyard of empires, and right now it’s…