AfPak: Illegal, Immoral, Fattening
Alas Afghanistan
Stan McChrystal’s Flying Circus
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander in Afghanistan and Monty Python fan, has put on quite a show of insubordination in the past month or so in an attempt to cram his escalation plan down the world's throat. He has waged open information warfare in the media, right-wing...
Neocons and Pentagon Rage Against the Dying of the Fight
Despite the public relations campaign that has so many folks convinced the surge was a success, Iraq is still a zoo. It has been almost three years since the surge strategy was announced and David Petraeus was installed as commander in Iraq. As professor and retired...
Bleep NATO
Tom Shanker of the New York Times tells us that NATO defense ministers have given their "broad endorsement" to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's plan to escalate the Afghanistan war into a full-Monty counter insurgency effort. NATO defense ministers love...
Make the World Go Away
General Treachery
Throttling Back on Afghanistan
It was encouraging to see White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel throwing elbow punches in the Sunday political gabfests, defending the Obama's decision to hold off on its decision on what to do about McChrystal's flying-pie proposal to "Go Big" in a...
