In full Arabic transliteration his name is UsÄmah bin Muḥammad bin`AwaḠbin LÄdin. In the West, however, in English-language mass media, it’s simply Osama. The original bad boy of modern times. The US military has…
As the situation worsens in Afghanistan, some are voicing concerns whether the US should be there in the first place. Seven years along and nothing has really changed. Foreign Policy In Focus two years ago:…
Decider George said yesterday he had regrets, most of which were some of his hardcase-cowboy, dumb-ass remarks, nothing serious, though, nothing about torture, Iraq, Katrina. “I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said,” Bush…
War is chaos — hence the word ‘war‘ can be traced back to the Indo-European root, ‘wers,’ which is to confuse, mix up. Funny, another form derived from the same Indo-European root word had developed…
Fear has been Decider George’s top weapon of choice the last near-eight years. So now as he gets ready to get the shit out of Dodge, fear has cropped up again during some kind of…
In the quick wake of Sept. 11, 2001, Decider George set the banner in the winds of war. In a national address that night, he set the tone for the next seven years, blubbering: “The…
Why now indeed? After all these years, the US pulls a punch out of its bag of latent tricks and popped a farmhouse inside Syria on Sunday, supposedly chasing after some bad al-Qaeda types from…
Iraq is the nightmare version of Alice’s surreal Rabbit Hole. There’s blood on the walls. (Illustration was found here). When Decider George invaded Iraq in 2003 — carried out over the bodies of US GIs…
UPDATE BELOW While Barack Obama snagged Colin Powell’s endorsement on Sunday, Jackboot John McCain has received thumbs up support from Osama and his boys. According to the today’s Washington Post, al-Qaeda has claimed the best…
Warriors in that happy-go-lucky city-state of ancient Sparta either can back with their shield, or on it. Veterans from US wars, however, especially those from the little-horrors currently in Iraq and Afghanistan, have no protective…