War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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: Yet the Bush administration continues to be in denial about the worsening situation in Afghanistan. President Bush recently declared that…
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 told CNN’s Heidi Collins, when asked to reflect on his regrets over his two terms as president. “Like ‘Dead or…
(Illustration in oil by Frank Quinn of Walpole, MA, can be found here). Despite the ongoing and apparently never-ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US public for the first time in years, favor the military a more positive view. From yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor: While the military continues to rate highly in public opinion…
Despite the joy, a new CNN poll has exposed a scared, anxious public still worried about which direction this ship of state is headed, a bit concerned the course might be plotted toward an ill-fated collision. After an hour’s delay, the RMS Titanic departed Queenstown, Ireland, about 1:30 in the afternoon, April 11, 1912, bound…
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 into a word denoting a more benign kind of mixture, Old High German, ‘wurst,’ meaning “sausage.†In a flurry of…
Five days after the massive voter surge, President-Elect Obama is treading carefully on all kinds of foreign policy entanglements that have come up, and he’s displayed a sense of you can’t rush good shit in to replace some real bad shit. Despite whatever the voters in the US said last Tuesday, the world remains one…
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…
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 tear-filled speech yesterday for White House staffers. Now it’s terrorists striking during the transition: “For the next 75 days, all…
Talk about some history-freaked whiners. CNN reported this evening a bunch of straight-faced historians said Decider George has just been “unlucky” with a lot of bad shit happening on his watch, and future people might deal with the sonofabitch in a much better light than right now, a Harry Truman kind of character. Shit happens,…
What’s this with US bombs and Afghan weddings? These two kids, small members of an Afghan wedding party bombed to bits by US aircraft in July 2002, killing 20 to 30 people (Illustration found here), are a horrifyingly sad picture of what’s been accomplished in a war that’s now dragged on for more than seven…