OK, this is a bit speculative—not Donald Trump “speculative,” but out there—but still. Even though the acceptance rate at Annapolis is only one percentage point below that of West Point’s—8% versus 9%—isn’t it at least possible that top athletes who thought they might have a shot at some sort of post-military service career (like, you…
Tag: war on terror
The Moral of Omar Mateen
The moral of Omar Mateen is that there will be no early end to the disastrous “War on Terror”, which is painfully damaging our culture and causing us to waste hundreds of billions of dollars on a massive and useless military. These are the fruits of “hegemonisn” or “exceptionalism”, promoted so assiduously ever since the…
Michael V. Hayden seriously full of it, says Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Never piss off a United States senator. There once was no greater advocate of the “War on Terror” than California Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee until the Republicans took over in 2014. But the CIA, in a classic case of compulsive over-reaching, tried to strong-arm her and her committee, turning a…
Boston bombing not quite as terrible as it could have been
Two young men with a chip on their shoulders murder four and injure more than a hundred, while significantly reducing the quality of life for 300 million people. It’s wonderful what you can do with a couple of pressure cookers and some black powder. It’s definitely on the upside that we won’t be invading anyone…
There goes number 3! Again!
A variety of wise guys in the press are making fun of the recent announcement by U.S. “intelligence” announcing the demise of al-Qaida’s “third-ranking operative,” making this the tenth No. 3 to bite the dust, by some accounts. The government is always reporting taking out al-Qaida’s No. 3 guy because if it reported taking out…
Comedy is tragedy seen at a distance
The man I helped put in the White House makes a funny regarding predator drones. The gag would be funnier if we weren’t using them to kill, well, hundreds of innocent people. Via Tapped, which has more.