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bad economy - good military
It is sad that because of the recession and lack of jobs that many have no choice but to join the military and fight in Iraq and Afgahnistan.
Posted to Today's Papers by david wayne osedach on January 19, 2009
The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008
Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
McClellan, like the Military: Malfeasance All Around
Well, we hear it now straight from the horse's mouth, if that's the right part of the animal's anatomy. Unfortunately, it's the same scenario again, like retired generals beating their breasts after the fact: the press secretary, privy to the highest levels of decision making, who might have spoken up and made a difference, now finds the bravery ...
Posted to Fighting Words by jaspatk1701 on June 6, 2008
Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan
Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008
Why I'm an American in Exile...
On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007
Petraeus Was following orders - Dumb ones!
Theoretical Solutions to Non-Sequiturian Problems Military officers are trained to do two things. They know how to give orders and they know take orders. General David Howell Petraeus was ordered to devise a comprehensive strategy for counter insurgency and that he did. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf The problems was, why and for ...
Posted to War Stories by hotlicks on September 22, 2007
Petraeus Was following orders - Dumb ones!
Theoretical Solutions to Non-Sequiturian Problems Military officers are trained to do two things. They know how to give orders and they know take orders. General David Howell Petraeus was ordered to devise a comprehensive strategy for counter insurgency and that he did. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf The problems was, why and for ...
Posted to War Stories by hotlicks on September 22, 2007
Iraq is &amp;quot;Bush's War&amp;quot;
Iraq is ''Bush's War'' (NOT a ''War Against Terrorism'')... Question: When did Terrorists'' get the ESTABLISHED and REAL foot-hold in Iraq? Related to the ''War Against Saddam''... Although this may have been an issue that may have eventually required continued US Military Action, there WERE & ARE on the other hand, far GREATER dangers to the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Qtec90 on August 16, 2007
Impeach the VP
Let's take as a given that we've all known for years that Cheney is a political monster, and that,despite repeated claims to the contrary, our President is a figurehead working for the apparatus of the Reagan and Bush Sr.'s political machine. The only thing that seems to have changed recently are Cheney's acts which have become more overt and ...
Posted to Politics by mikek on June 29, 2007