Killin’ Themselves
February 5, 2009“Suicide is painless,” and yes indeed it does bring on many changes, but with the game of life hard to play, since it’s gonna be lost anyway, to win is to cheat, lay it down…
Category Archives: Just Plain War
Nuts-and-Bolts-and-Circuits Of Modern War
February 5, 2009One thing is certain in history: Weapons of war have become more advanced as a civilization seemingly progresses, always and continually getting more bang for the buck, and in turn, becoming less humane, more indiscriminate…
‘Another Bush’
January 24, 2009In 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…
Afghan Afar Up Close
January 24, 2009One 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,…
Warmongers, Inc.
December 12, 2008Even as the Pentagon is engaged in two badly-run wars — Iraq and Afghanistan — and militarily involved all kinds of wars in all kinds of superfluous ways, the chief weapons merchant for the world…
Kabul in the Noose
December 9, 2008In a metaphor mix, Afghanistan’s capital appears encircled in a hangman’s noose as Taliban forces expands its footprint across the country. In a report issued Monday by a France-based think tank: The group said Taliban…
Obama with Cluster at the Little Big Horror
December 4, 2008One of the most indiscriminate and terrifying weapons in humanity’s vast arsenal, among a long, long list of terrifying instruments, are cluster bombs. Situated within the category of dumb bombs, or those just dropped from…
Asymmetry Life
December 3, 2008Early in the morning, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, a line was drawn deeply, quickly in the sand of life, altering the balance, forever loosing the strings of harmony. Oh, shut the shit up, give it…
Drawdown 1965
November 28, 2008In the last few years there’s been a lot comparisons between the current Iraqi adventure and the Vietnam war, two towering blunders in US foreign policy, not to mention the immeasurable loss of life and…
‘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…