Over at Salon, Steve Kornacki has a nice piece on the endless machinations necessary to decide which college football teams get to become members of the cool conferences and which lose out. If you’ve ever asked yourself why, back in ’94, Texas Tech got into the Big 12, whoever they are, and Rice did not,…
Tag: war crimes
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…
Murder most foul, continued
I seem to spend an unconscionable amount of time making fun of the New Yorker on this blog, but sometimes they nail it. The nailer, in this case, is Amy Davidson, with this blog entry on the Obama Administration’s latest triumph, the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki’s 16-yer-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, which, Amy says, makes her…
And we know that how?
According to Politico, “Taliban helicopter shooter killed by United States.” How do we know that? Because Marine Gen. John Allen said so, that’s why. And how does he know that? Don’t ask. Politico didn’t.
Well, they sure looked militant to me
U.S. drones killed 20 people in Pakistan today, according to the AP. They were all bad.
So I guess we lied
You may recall my complaints here and here about the U.S military’s footdragging and evasions regarding the question of whether American air strikes on August 22 on an Afghan village killed “5-7” civilians, as the U.S. said, or 90, as the civilians themselves said. Well, now U.S. Air Force investigators have concluded that the civilian…
So does that mean we lied?
Yesterday Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking in Kabul, offered “sincere condolences and personal regrets” for recent deaths of Afghan civilians as a result of U.S. air strikes. You may remember that on August 22 a U.S. airstrike killed “five to seven” civilians, according to the U.S. military. Or was it closer to 90? Gates…