On Aug. 17 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, President Barack Obama gave waste and pork in the defense budget a thorough tongue-lashing. It was well said, but also a little pathetic if you consider what the porkers in Congress are up to. The words flew high:...
Tuesday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 13 Wounded
Death by Bananastan
I keep finding further proof that our ever increasing but directionless escalation of the Bananastan* conflict is the maddest military misadventure in human history. A former colleague recently sent me information regarding the newly formed Pakistan Afghanistan...
It Takes a Potemkin Village (to Lose a War)
Unrest Brewing Beneath Gaza Calm
GAZA CITY - The mile-long stretch that divides Israel's Erez border crossing into northern Gaza from the Hamas police border post is eerily quiet. But the mountains of rubble, twisted metal, and craters which remain following Israel's intensive bombing campaign in...
IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged
The International Atomic Energy Agency says its present objective regarding Iran is to try to determine whether the intelligence documents purportedly showing a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program from 2001 to 2003 are authentic or not. The problem, according to...
Monday: 1 US Soldier, 18 Iraqis Killed; 30 Iraqis Wounded
What Price Afghanistan?
Has the U.S. lost the Afghan war, even before President Obama's "surge" is plugged in and the "COIN" strategy is put in place? "Clear, hold, and build": – that's the "new" counterinsurgency doctrine [.pdf] being touted by the...


