Archive for the ‘War’ Category
Making Sure There Is Never a War We’re Not a Part Of
It never stops: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and several other lawmakers say the U.S. should consider arming the opposition forces in Syria as President Bashar al-Assad continues to kill civilians in a government crackdown. Graham cautioned that before arming the opposition, he would want to know that they have a plan to govern “so that [...]
February 7, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
116 Comments
Posted in: War
I Think That’s Some Sort Of Bomb Iranian Mix
Well, since John Yoo is on vacation this week or something waterboarding herds of unicorns and John Bolton’s Mustache is busy with trying to adapt drone controls for use by facial hair (hard to fly straight and hit the red button at the same time when you’re only a mustache) to bomb Syria, it’s up [...]
February 6, 2012
· Zandar · 127 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Military, Our Failed Media Experiment, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, War
-2 Friedman Units
This didn’t get much attention yesterday, but it seems important: The US plans to wind down its war in Afghanistan a year or more earlier than scheduled by ending its combat role in the second half of 2013. [...] “Hopefully by mid to the latter part of 2013 we’ll be able to make a transition [...]
February 2, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 52 Comments
Posted in: War
Over There
While I have so recently been reminded by our friends in the 101st Chairborne that I’m some arugula-chomping, word-chopping, bubble-bound faux-American, it happens that even folks from my particular corner of Alinskystan talk to people whose daily life is as real as it gets. Which is to say that one of my friends most often [...]
January 30, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 186 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Rare Sincerity, War
Remember, They Hate us for Our Freedom
A little more than three days time served for each victim: A Marine sergeant who told his troops to “shoot first, ask questions later” in a raid that killed unarmed Iraqi women, children and elderly pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will carry no more than three months confinement and end the largest and [...]
January 23, 2012
· John Cole · 191 Comments
Posted in: War
A Little Sunday History
Nobody’s posted about the video of Marines pissing on dead Taliban soldiers, so even though it’s somewhat old news, I just want to disagree with the idea that the ubiquity of cameras adds a new transparency to war: First, there’s the new transparency of war. Infinitely more battlefield details get recorded, and everyone has the [...]
January 15, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 275 Comments
Posted in: War
Signing Statement
By request, here’s President Obama’s signing statement for the defense authorization bill he signed yesterday.
January 1, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 191 Comments
Posted in: War
There’s a rose in a fisted glove
Bear in mind that this is from a Politico article, and they offer nothing to quantify their assertion, but I found this idea interesting: The anti-war stance, the sharp criticism of the war on terrorism, the calls to rein in military spending — all of it is fueling Paul’s support among the young voters who [...]
December 29, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 116 Comments
Posted in: War
We’ll Regret This One Day
I know this will mainly fall on deaf ears, but this is not a good development and not something we should be proud of: The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, [...]
December 28, 2011
· John Cole · 233 Comments
Posted in: War
Iraq: An Ending, of Sorts
(Jeff Danziger’s website) “We” should never have gone there in the first place, “we” had no business doing what we did or hanging around as long as we did, but President Obama deserves credit for checking off another item on his campaign-promises list. From Andre Tartar at NYMag’s Daily Intel: The last U.S. military convoy [...]
December 18, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 125 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, War, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Oh, BTW- Mission Accomplished
An e-mailer ripped into me for not highlighting this: President Obama observed the end of the war in Iraq on Wednesday before an audience of those who fought in it, telling a crowd of returning war veterans that the nearly nine years of conflict in Iraq, a war now indelibly imprinted on the national psyche, [...]
December 14, 2011
· John Cole · 166 Comments
Posted in: War
Dead Civilians are the Cost of Doing Business
Sadly, the only people who will be punished for this are the ones who forgot to destroy the documents: One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America’s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of [...]
December 14, 2011
· John Cole · 82 Comments
Posted in: War
When They Do It, It is Called Warmongering
When we do it, we call it national security: The recent crash of a U.S. spy drone inside Iran offers a glimpse at the growing secret effort by Washington to curb the nuclear program of its longtime foe, the Associated Press reports. Iran last week released video footage of what it says is an intact [...]
December 12, 2011
· John Cole · 71 Comments
Posted in: War, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Kubrick Was There First
Regarding DougJ’s amazing (and horrifying AEI quote), I’d just like to point out that Kubrick got there first. AEI: The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it’s Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they [...]
December 5, 2011
· John Cole · 84 Comments
Posted in: Sociopaths, War
Over
Twitter informs me that Obama is scheduled to announce a complete withdrawal from Iraq in 2011. What did we accomplish? What did we gain? Other than the removal of Saddam, nothing that I can tell, and I don’t understand how we are better off with Iraq in chaos and more closely aligned with Iran. Anyone [...]
October 21, 2011
· John Cole · 191 Comments
Posted in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., War
