War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Wednesday’s seemingly-fearless, intricate attacks in Kabul by a way-over-resurgent Taliban should be very much a sign-post of an eye-opener on the bad road ahead in Afghanistan. Apparently, a near-identical Mumbai operation with its seemingly random assaults and a kind of scatter-brained detail to its movements — The old, time-tested “shooting as they went” scenario. Fifty-six…
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…
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…
See a list thrown up there in wide-open spaces. Think Progress has an incredible serial-names roll call of Decider George’s minions — caretakers as in Sarah Palin — during the past eight gruesome years. Read it here.
As the Gaza situation continues, even in the face of international outcries and the top U.N. human rights official calling for a war crimes investigation, the real-deal hand in all this, Iran, is being cool. One great fear of this entire cruel episode is that Israel will piss off its Arab neighbors so bad, an…
The latest yesterday in grand ‘Support the Troops’ style: The U.S. Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as “John Doe.” Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., was sending a personal letter to all the families who…
As one of the most-bizarre and just-plain-weird years comes to a close and a new 12-month cycle just cranks off, I’ve gotten this really-bad feeling about Decider George and all the horrible, immoral, illegal shit he’s done — he’ll just ride off into the sunset scot-ass free. That’s just so wrong. (Illustration found here). The…
A war that just keeps on giving, and in lieu of current events, now the shoe could be on the other foot. Five years ago, Decider George blubbered bring ’em on like his ass was actually on the line — a big mouth that killed a lot of people. Now Mullah Omar and his Taliban…
Advice from fabricators and twisters of truth. The current White House people have produced “contingency plans” for President-Elect Obama in case some emergency might quickly pop up in the first few weeks of his administration, which in turn, creates the silly scenario of actually taking serious the managing director of the White Star Line. (Illustration…
Under the newly-approved SOFA arrangement in Iraq, US troops have to be out by 2011. This dovetails with President-Elect Obama’s 16-month commitment to pull the plug on the Iraqi misadventure, but the way things happen, this may or may not be the reality. Decider George’s Middle East entanglements leave a narrow window of opportunity to…