War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In another attempt to pinch-out a phrase for the times, President Obama launched his 2012 re-election bid this morning with a stirring, “It begins with us,” planted on his official site at barackobama.com. I knew 2008 personally, and this ain’t 2008. From CNN: Shortly afterward, Obama sent an e-mail to supporters to say he will…
In the beginning, Barack Obama carried a big bucket of change — change he claimed all of us could really, really believe in and live with as we moved onward into that most-wonderful future. My first dimming impression that this was all bullshit came via a personal metaphysical-political incident, or maybe an alarm faintly chiming…
Last Thursday — Oct. 7, the ninth anniversary of the start of the Afghan War – Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Against the War gathered in front of the Walter Reed Hospital in DC to launch “Operation Recovery,” an attempt by the group to air the horror, and thus bring to a halt, the re-deployment of soldiers…
UPDATE BELOW If there’s going to be any kind of future history — or any kind of logical future history with all the shit hitting the earth’s fan right now — President Obama will be named/remembered as the most-greatest letdown of all time. Indeed, there’s thousands if not millions of people completely discouraged by US…
UPDATE/ADD-ON BELOW Yes, the Edwin Starr song paraphrased is the counterinsurgency of fighting dumb-shit wars. Last month on PBS‘ “Frontline,” an interview with Andrew Bacevich, a retired US Army colonel and a level head in this era of military idiots. He’s also a professor of international relations and history at Boston University, a Vietnam veteran and…