War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
“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 before gettin’ beat… Paraphrasing a description of a definite blowback from two ugly wars grinding this country into dust. (Illustration…
One 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 in the killing. Modern war machines attempt to eliminate the human element altogether. (Illustration of a two-man Gaelic battle chariot…
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…
Even 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 in all these engagements is the one supposedly spreading democracy — the US. Arming the planet keeps a certain part…
In 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 fighters have advanced out of southern Afghanistan, a region where they often hold de facto governing power, and carry out…
One 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 aircraft without any specific target, gravity-fed, these little sonofabitches have an enormous killing zone — cats, dogs, children, women, old…
Early 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 a rest! Flowering words with a poetic Far-Eastern bent, creating a myth of of unmitigated proportions and uncalled-for phrases of…
In 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 the cataclysm in the social conscience of a nation. Iraq is not Vietnam — or is it? (Illustration found here).…
A 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 more from recent incidents just this past week. (Illustration found here). According to CNN yesterday, the situation in Afghanistan appears…