So what am I missing in Afghanistan? Isn’t this like a really dumb bank robber being caught in the act (stealing almost a million votes) - and then - instead of booking him on charges, being given another chance to rob the same bank? The U.S. government and NATO are...
The Washington Post article on this weekend's attack on a remote US military base in Afghanistan notes: It is really hard to interdict the enemy," said the base's company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. "There are literally...
From the Small Press Expo cartoonist show this weekend in Bethesda, MD - a tribute to the greatest political movie of this century: [full size versions of photos available here]
Some people who are outraged by anti-Obama placards have forgotten that, only a few years ago, many people were condemning George Bush in terms as harsh or harsher. Here is a picture I took at an antiwar rally in Washington in January 2007. The sign - "What's good for...
So the Obama administration is moving forward with a plan to prosecute some CIA agents who went beyond the guidelines the Bush administration authorized for extreme interrogations. This is good news. But will the torture policymakers be exempt from the law? If so,...
The current government is Iran is a bunch of damn rascals and thugs, and there are boatloads of questions about the honesty of their last election. The regime's brutal crackdown on protestors reveals its true character. (But the Iranian government is not novel in this...
In its obituary article on Robert McNamara today, the Washington Post mentions that McNamara was a director of the Washington Post company. Was that honor bestowed because of McNamara's lies or because of his war crimes? Or maybe he was just a really really great...
President Obama issued his statement on the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims. I wonder if Obama's ghostwriter was wearing hip boots when this statement was put together. The opening of his statement could have been recycled from the...
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg approved an Obama administration request to have an additional 30 days to submit their appeal to justify suppressing the photos of US troops torturing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration can now dally until July 9...
Does President Obama have a vested interest in covering up the crimes of the Bush administration? His decision to block the release of photos of U.S. troops abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan is a reminder that the nation may still be running on "Cheney time."...
