War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
“There is nothing more wicked, more disastrous, more widely destructive, more deeply tenacious, more loathsome.” “…once war has been declared, then all the affairs of the State are at the mercy of the appetites of a few.” — Erasmus and War, 14th Century (Illustration of Picasso’s “Massacre in Korea” found here via Google Images). Despite the…
In the face of so much bad shit going on right now — even another US theater of war in Libya — the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is taking a deep-back seat on the runaway bus of a 24-hour news cycle. However, death is still there as six US GIs were killed Tuesday in eastern…
“There is a distance, a veil between us.” — ‘All Quiet On The Western Front,’ Erich Maria Remarque (Illustration found here). War as waged nowadays — slipshod and way-unnecessary — kills in ways way-beyond the flesh. The US has destroyed a certain of segment of its population, a big chunk, in waging nasty, cruel and…
In war, the crazed bull is sometimes left alone in the china shop. (Illustration found here). As the US attempts to wind down its horrible fiasco in Iraq, some mindless and numbing details have been left behind — in a futile grasp to curb violence in 2005, the US turned Baghdad into a kind of…
Just as the new year began, the US war machine’s ultimate killing device reportedly nailed 19 people in Pakistan where drones kept hovering in the skies all most all the day long creating panic and harassment among the residents in North Waziristan. (Illustration found here). And President Obama’s ‘other surge’ has been in drone attacks…
The US and its nit-witted NATO allies should pack up and leave Afghanistan right now — right here and now. And this terrible incident might be a major culprit (among a shitload of others). From the Washington Post on Monday: An Afghan border police officer opened fire on U.S. troops during a training mission in eastern…
The most-modern gadfly in the ointment of nefarious US governmental operations, WikiLeaks, dropped another load of classified documents into the vast media mainstream on Sunday, labeling this batch, “CableGate,” as the doco-dump is more than 250,000 US embassy cables — confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in…
Veteran’s Day 2010 — A continuing, seemingly-never ending festival of sad. (Illustration found here). Adieu to a Soldier — Walt Whitman Adieu O soldier, You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,) The rapid march, the life of the camp, The hot contention of opposing fronts, the long manoeuvre, Red battles with their slaughter, the…
In a conflict that’s moving quickly from mismanaged to just plain foolish, Afghanistan is seeing a spike in civilian deaths, especially in the southern part of the country where US and NATO troops are attempting, once again, to drive out the Taliban. The International Red Cross, despite reporting the number of bystander injuries are “hitting…
From Jason Ditz at antiwar.com: NATO is scrambling to do damage control tonight after a number of weekend incidents led to the deaths of Afghan civilians, including several children. US troops killed two civilians, including an eight year old girl in a shooting in Logar Province, while NATO air strikes in the Helmand Province killed…