Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Remember when Barack Obama claimed in 2007-09 the Afghan War was the right war, the good one, as opposed to the wrong and bad Iraq War prosecuted by Bush/Cheney? Of course, they were both disastrous wars, but...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I heard yesterday that H. Bruce Franklin had died at the age of 90. Bruce and I never met, but we corresponded and talked on a few occasions. An Air Force veteran and cultural historian, he was a principled...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The latest headline from the New York Times shows mission creep for NATO in the Russia-Ukraine War: As Russia Advances, NATO Considers Sending Trainers Into Ukraine By Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, Eric...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Last week, President Biden appeared to have strapped on a temporary spine in delaying shipments of “offensive” weaponry to Israel for its murderous invasion of Rafah in Gaza. That spine had a short duration as...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. When Barack Obama took over as president in 2009, the global war on terror, or GWOT, just didn’t seem to fit the tenor of his “hope” and “change” message. So wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were rebranded as...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I’d like to highlight this Twitter/X post by Lee Camp and his take on improving NPR’s BS headline: Lee Camp: Ummm, NPR, I believe you meant to say “Nearly 300 peaceful unarmed people brutally attacked by...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Took a jaunt over to NBC News online for my fair share of abuse, and I wasn’t disappointed. Here are the top headlines there: “Biden administration faces pressure to step up its response to antisemitic...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Who knew mass death was such a growth industry? And by “death” I mean not only of humans but of any organism in a war zone. We humans are a self-absorbed lot. We blast the earth and obliterate life without a...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Today is Earth Day: a good day to commit ourselves to saving the earth from the ravages of nuclear war. Global warming may get us in the long term, but nothing will kill the planet quicker than a nuclear war....
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Surprise! The House has approved $95 billion in more weapons and war for Ukraine and Israel, along with a few billion tossed in for Taiwan. Ukraine gets the lion’s share of the aid, roughly $61 billion, while...
