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…
US troops slugging through Afghanistan are sick of it and according to their chaplains: “The many soldiers who come to see us have a sense of futility and anger about being here. They are really…
Today eight years ago, Oct. 7, 2001… “On my order, U.S. forces have begun strikes on terrorist camps of al Qaeda, and the military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,” Bush said in a…
Iran getting nuked — one view of the repercussions… James Howard Kunstler, author of ‘The Long Emergency,’ describes a nightmare domino effect if Iran is bombed, and what the planet would then face. From his…
In the continuous outpouring of flak and crap on, about, for and against the insane, horrific Iraq debacle there has been a voice, seemingly crying in the wilderness, a voice that should have been heard…
Day after July fourth: Malcontent and hot-under-the collar utterances against a putrid situation. On TV’s History Channel yesterday was a well-produced, though kind of cheesy look at events leading up to the US becoming a…