If you see a couple of kids in Afghanistan digging a hole beside a road, what do you do? Open fire! Yep, that’s how it goes in the big A, or Afstan, or whatever it is that GIs call Afghanistan. Dan Lamothe and Joe Gould, staff writers with the Military Times, flesh out my brief…
Tag: Obama war crimes
How many stupid foreign policy advisors does President Obama have? One less than he used to
Foreign Policy is a pretty serious magazine, right? No Best Bikini Bods need apply. And a job title like “Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy” sounds pretty intense. So why does a recent article in Foreign Policy by Rosa Brooks, former Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy at the…
Cowardice follows murder as Wednesday follows Tuesday
Every Tuesday, President Obama and the boys get together to decide whom they’re going to murder next, via the magic of America’s infamous killer drones. Yesterday, Murder Tuesday was followed by Cowardice Wednesday, as the President ordered the Democratic Convention to surrender to the imperious whines of AIPAC Nation and restore to the Democratic Platform…
Just in case you were thinking of voting for Barack Obama this Fall
Read Glenn Greenwald, Adam Serwer, and Andrew Sullivan on the Obama Administration’s disgusting, yet predictable decision not to prosecute anyone responsible for the various war crimes committed during the Bush Administration—crimes committed in the name of making us “free.” Of course, as Serwer notes, not everyone got away: John Kiriakou, the former CIA official who…
Casuistry, left and right
Todd Akin—“If you’re pregnant, then you weren’t raped.” Obama—“If you’re dead, then you were a militant.”
Oh, those arrogant Chinese!
Over at the Dish, Andy free during August, Gwynn Guilford posts a rap bemoaning China’s “insularity and paranoia,” giving as an example the reasonably believable “fact” that everyone in China believes that 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by U.S. forces was deliberate. Well, that does sound a little insular and paranoid, but,…
9/11. the last refuge of a scoundrel
Or a sycophant. Andrew Sullivan, whom I often like, runs off the rails in his devotion to President Obama here, praising his indiscriminate use of murder drones and claiming that if the U.S. doesn’t function like an intermational Murder, Inc., well, would you prefer “religious terrorists from mountains in Middle Asia successfully invading and terrorizing…
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…