Does America really need “warrior” presidents, and what does that say about our country and its citizens. Why is a military background so important in candidates for the presidency, and would we be better off as a nation without that qualification? In this commentary, The Costs of Tough Talk, these topics are discussed. It might [...]
Cpl Jamie Brendan Murphy, 26, died in Afghanistan just a week before he was scheduled to return home. Military personnel knocked on the Murphy family’s door at 5 a.m. to tell them their son had been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Hours later, members of the Murphy family gathered at their parents’ home [...]
Take a two day trip with Dahr Jamail, a freelance journalist from Alaska, as he collects data on the present state of the water infrastructure in Iraq. Some excerpts: Hilla, right near Babylon, has a water treatment plant and distribution center that is managed by Salmam Hassan Kadel, who is also the Chief Engineer. The [...]
….here are some great stories from links stuck near the bottom of the front page of Antiwar.com: Anti-US Tunes Big Hits in Iraq: The story is a bit frightening. Some of the lyrics call for continued resistance: “The men of Fallujah are men of hard tasks,” Mr. al-Jenabi sings in a dialect decipherable only to [...]
It’s an affront to every cynical bone and iconoclastic nerve in my body, but here goes: Jeremy Scahill kicks ass. Read this interview with Wesley Clark and tell me I’m wrong. Jeremy Scahill for the White House (press corps)!
Your moment of Zen, courtesy of John Ashcroft: Weapons of mass destruction, including evil chemistry and evil biology, are all matters of great concern, not only to the United States, but also to the world community. Think Ashcroft just let that slip? He has already used the phrase at least three times in public: Sept. [...]
