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  • Re: May I Suggest Reading The Transcript

    McCain is a wily coyote politician from arid Arizona, who has spent his long, post-hero career bedding women and making hay in Washington DC politics. Reminds me of George Mitchell and not a few others. Such big egos and such small results. Is George Mitchell married even yet? At least Bill Cohen found someone to settle down with. Not only would ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on July 4, 2008

  • Swinging with Passion Makes for Bad Case Law

    Justice Anthony Kennedy is a passionate man. He was a passionate judge and now je is a passionate Justice. But while one may want zealousness in one’s representation in the legal arena, passion in deciding law is dangerous, if not outright foolishness. Passions are swayed. Passions are fired up. Passions are capricious. On April 18, 2007, Ms. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by IMKessel on June 20, 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

  • Crisis At Home

    Am I confused, or is this country I love and live in not being torn apart by tornadoes, floods and fire? Are we not trillions of dollars in debt? Can we even properly take care of our precious Soldiers and Marines, who are being sacrificed as fodder to further fill the coffers of the greedy. I don't hear the word FEMA being uttered from the lips ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by Audrey V. Brown on May 14, 2008

  • Weighting out the Military

    While the number of available recruits dwindle, the Army does the run around keeping their service members on active duty past their obligated end of service date. Whether or not dumbing down or weighting around for a very large army of one, we need service members to enforce US policy abroad. The question that crosses my mind might be a ...
    Posted to Explainer by aerospaceman on April 23, 2008

  • Military law, international law and teardrops.....

    It is gratifying to read the analyses of how the overseas travel of administration attorneys or leaders could, in the future, expose them to prosecution in foreign courts for violations of national laws that give effect to the Geneva Convention, and incidentally cover related activities such as special rendition. [Note: read on after the excerpts ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Wilson Dizard III on April 4, 2008

  • No moral responsibility?

    Overall, excellent recommendations. But, the section on withdrawing all U.S. troops, and the logic for doing so, seems flawed. I thoroughly concur that the U.S. should not be in the business of empire-building, or use force to topple ''non-democratic'' governments. That has been a failed policy whether talking about Panama, Chile, Iraq, or ...
    Posted to Fixing It by mrquizzical on April 3, 2008

  • Cannot Fix U.S. Military Without Fixing U.S. Society and Eco

    I wonder what the ''military brat'' elected U.S. Senator from Virginia, a Democrat named James or Jim, thinks about your comprehensive and exhaustive prescription for improvements to our U.S. Military. Only a military officer who has been elected to public office, it seems, is entitled to offer an opinion, since remember: our national military ...
    Posted to Fixing It by MichaelBernard1 on March 31, 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

  • Fallon - The Great Escape

    Hooray for ADM Fallon!!! He took his oath to the Constitution, not the president. He may have felt that by sacrificing his career, he could slow a rush into another war. He may have just had enough of being forced to factor in domestic politics when deciding strategy. We've grown used to the bureaucratic general whose loyalty is to his ...
    Posted to War Stories by RMarigny on March 13, 2008
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