"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 4th, 2010
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” I don’t agree with GOP party chair Michael Steele’s assertion about Afghanistan being Obama’s war, I do agree that it is a war of choice. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that it’s an unwinable war. We have very little to gain and much to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 25th, 2010
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Pakistan wants a bigger role in Afghanistan: Pakistan is presenting itself as the new viable partner for Afghanistan to President Hamid Karzai, who has soured on the Americans. Pakistani officials say they can deliver the network of Sirajuddin Haqqani, an ally of Al [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 14th, 2010
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” The Mineral Miracle? Or a Massive Information Operation? – Politics – The Atlantic. Marc Ambinder has some doubts about the motives of what looks like a coordinated effort to get the world to pay attention to 20 year old information about mineral wealth [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 28th, 2009
Kevin Drum on Tom “Six More Months” Friedman joins George Will in declaring it’s time to get out of Afghanistan: Conventional Wisdom Watch | Mother Jones.
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 28th, 2009
Informed Comment: Urdu Editorials Condemn US Predator Strikes on Pakistan. Obama has to change the policy in Pakistan, either flat out declare war on Pakistan or give up on Afghanistan. This half-assed shit isn’t cutting it. We ARE turning more and more of the Muslim world against us. It only gets worse from there. Let’s [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 16th, 2008
It seems bizarre that it’s necessary to explain why torture is bad. I found this Rolling Stone piece via Andrew Sullivan on the path taken by a 15 year old prisoner from the early months of the action in Afghanistan. What happened to him at the hands of Americans is flatly, obviously torture. They took [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 29th, 2008
NPR: Britain: Harry’s Afghan Deployment Over I heard that Prince Harry has been secretly serving with the British Army in Afghanistan since December, this is until he was outed by Matt Drudge. Military officials will now have to pull Harry out of his unit because he’s such a high profile target that he endangers other [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 31st, 2008
Tim F. over at Balloon Juice, notes that things are not going so great in Afghanistan. Playing into this is the lack of flexibility in dealing with the deteriorating situation because of our never ending commitment in Iraq.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2007
Rice Says U.S. Will Review Aid To Pakistan – washingtonpost.com Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that the United States would review its $150 million-a-month assistance program to Pakistan in response to the declaration of emergency rule by the president, Gen. Pervez Mushar. Pakistan has long been a safe harbor for terrorists in the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 28th, 2007
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2007
Via Crooks and Liars: Crooks and Liars This is the tragic irony of our foreign policy over the past six years. Instead of permanently destroying al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan — where they are currently regrouping and emerging even stronger — we decided to invade a country that did not attack us nor have [...]
Posted in Blog Post on May 25th, 2007
Why the hell did we go into Iraq? Pre-War Intelligence Report on Iraq Released – washingtonpost.com The U.S. intelligence community accurately predicted months before the Iraq war that al-Qaeda would link up with elements from former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s regime and militant Islamists to conduct terrorist attacks against U.S. forces in that country, according [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2007
Hillbilly White Trash: Dims find no support for surrender The Democrats confused the American public’s unhappiness with the way the war was being fought with a desire for surrender and retreat. To be fair this was made easier by the high decibel shrieking from their lunatic fringe. Over the months since the election they have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 25th, 2007
The Truth And Jessica Lynch – Couric & Co. Was Jessica Lynch the heroic lil’ Rambo girl from Palestine, WV? She says her vehicle crashed knocking her unconscious and she never fired her weapon. Also it’s been reported that her rescue was delayed for a day so the Army could round up a camera crew [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2007
Bush seeks 8,200 more troops for wars – Yahoo! News I don’t deny that Afghanistan has been neglected in the mad rush to start a war of choice in Iraq. What I don’t understand is why these war aren’t part of the normal budget process? I suppose it makes it easier to hide how the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2007
Taliban misses Cheney in attack – Nation/Politics – The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper This is conflicting. While I am sorry that there was a suicide bombing killing workers waiting to get into Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, I hope that at least something got through that dense noggin on the VP. I don’t really think he [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2006
Conservative Cat: Kidnapping and Murder as a Cheap Public Relations Gimmick I don’t support Israeli actions in Lebanon. It’s not that I don’t believe that Israel shouldn’t defend itself. They have the right to self-defense and the leaders of the nation have a sworn duty to do so. What I find interesting is that the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 30th, 2006
I’ve been watching the coverage of the Zawahri tape on the news today. I’m struck by one main point. How is these guy able to mobilize our nation’s military, indirectly cause the overthrow of two governments, and lead our government to trample constitutional freedoms in furtherance of the “War on Terror”? How does the he [...]
Posted in Blog Post on May 11th, 2005
A military administrative disciplinary proceeding in Germany reprimanded and fined Army Col. Thomas Pappas $8,000. Brig. Gen. Janice Karpinski was demoted to colonel. Somehow seems insignificant given the damage it did to America’s image in the middle East. Military punishes key Abu Ghraib scandal figure, Reuters We were supposed to be the white hats, the [...]
Date: 10/06/2007