The homepage of the May 31, 2012 New York Times is currently (12:06 PM EDT) running the following: Seeing gains, U.S. Widens Latin Drug WarAs Washington’s attention swings from Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States is expanding its antidrug efforts in places like Honduras, where the violence has skyrocketed. What’s the “good” news? The Times…
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Obama: Cynical enough to save us, or cynical enough to destroy us?
A century from now, historians may praise President Obama for coolly weaning the United States from the rampant interventionism of the Bush years, and leading the U.S. to take its place as a peaceful partner in a stable, orderly world. Or it may record his presidency as the time the United States slid into a…
Leon Panetta: Less than inch from being a douchebag
U.S. troops film themselves urinating on corpses in Afghanistan. U.S. and allied troops burn copies of the Koran. A U.S. soldier goes berserk and murders 16 innocent Afghans. U.S. troops pose for photographs holding severed hands and legs. U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, we learn, has been flying home every weekend, to visit his…
Ten Years After
Ten years after the U.S. began its occupation/liberation of Afghanistan, we still haven’t figured out how to relate to a nation of poppy-growing Muslim fundamentalists. It might seem “obvious” to some that burning Korans is not a good idea when you’re trying to teach Muslims how enlightened you are and how much you respect their…
The Barack Obama Chinese-American Naval Full Employment Act of 2012
Last week President Obama traveled to the quasi-god-forsaken site of Darwin, Australia to twist the tail of the Chinese dragon by announcing that 2,500 U.S. Marines would now be spending time in Australia. “As a Pacific nation, the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future,” the…
Why, Oh, Why Can’t We Have A Better Press Corps? Mark Halperin just wants to be liked
I really shouldn’t read Time magazine, and I especially shouldn’t read Mark Halperin, aka Captain Kiss-Ass, but I did, and I have to pay the price—I have to suffer as Mark rates Newt Gingrich an A- for saying, among other things, that he would use sabotage and assassinations, plus “absolute strategic pressure” (which is kind…
Rummy’s head revisited
Yesterday I had to eat a little crow after, well, after I crowed over the fact that Donny’s Little Hideaway, aka the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, was going to be abandoned now that all U.S. troops are being pulled out of Iraq, when, in fact, it’s being expanded, at least in terms of staff. I…
Crimes of the 11th Circuit—Four years of torture isn’t enough
Let’s set a few names down for the historical record, shall we? Joel F. Dubina, Chief Judge, U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and William H. Prior, Judge, U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, two men, two cruel, cowardly, and callous men, whose names should live in quiet infamy. On Sept. 19, these two men…
Barack Obama, the Neocons’ Choice?
Horror show! Horror show! Wash Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, aka Fred Hewitt’s wooden-headed dummy, has a serious anxiety attack over the Republican condendahs’ Thrilla in Tampa on Monday. “I share my colleague Marc Thiessen’s horror at the dreadful display of foreign policy foolishness at the Republican debate last night,” exclaims Jennifer, who clearly needs to…
President declares victory, decides to stay
Good news! The tide of war is receding, as the President has announced. Just not very fast. Things are going so well in Afghanistan, according to the President, that a year from now we will only have twice as many troops stationed there as we did when he came into office two years ago. Quelle…