On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road

Retired four-star Army General Barry McCaffrey to Time magazine: “The Army’s wheels are going to come off in the next 24 months. We are now in a period of considerable strategic peril. It’s because Rumsfeld has dug in his heels and said, I cannot retreat from my position.” Cindy Sheehan testifying at Rep. John Conyers … Continue reading “On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road”

Bush Against the Generals

The tipping point against this immoral, ill-conceived and in–every–way disastrous war seems to have been reached, as hundreds – and soon to be thousands – of Gold Star Mothers and sympathizers march against the war in Crawford, Texas. Popular support for George W. Bush’s Napoleonic foreign policy has plummeted to its lowest point ever. “Like … Continue reading “Bush Against the Generals”

Get Ready for World War III

With every poll showing majorities of Americans both fed up with Bush’s war against Iraq and convinced that Bush’s invasion of Iraq has made Americans less safe, the White House moron proposes to start another war by attacking Iran. VP Cheney has already ordered the U.S. Strategic Command come up with plans to strike Iran … Continue reading “Get Ready for World War III”

Is the Iran Crisis for Real?

Are the Iranian mullahs close to acquiring the bomb? Has Iran violated the Non-Proliferation Treaty by restarting its conversion of yellowcake into uranium hexaflouride? The answer to both is no. By a recent U.S. intelligence review, Iran may be 10 years away from a bomb. And under the NPT, Iran is allowed to enrich uranium … Continue reading “Is the Iran Crisis for Real?”

A Time for Moral Outrage

The willingness of far too many Americans to patiently accept the rationale of Administration talking points through every twist and turn, through every flip-flop, through every Presidential renunciation of previously sacred American civic principles, may at long last be coming to an end. 29 months after the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, the pretext … Continue reading “A Time for Moral Outrage”

No-Win War

I heard a lecture by an Army psychologist who contended that after 90 days of combat, the casualty rate was 98 percent. Those not wounded physically were wounded psychologically. The other 2 percent were psychopaths. His passing remark about the psychopaths was interesting. A psychopath is a defective human being, almost a bionic robot. Psychopaths … Continue reading “No-Win War”

Cindy Sheehan’s Moral Alternative to Bush and Dean

In 1972, after many years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: “In that time, I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime.” That aptly describes three key American perspectives now brought to bear on US involvement in Iraq. The moral clarity … Continue reading “Cindy Sheehan’s Moral Alternative to Bush and Dean”

Israel’s Nuclear Puzzle Resolved: But To What End?

The BBC’s striking revelations regarding the secretive and disconcerting British role in making an Israeli nuclear bomb possible, deserves more than a quick pause and a few dozen news reports. It obliges a thorough investigation coupled with a complete reversal in the double standard that views Israel’s fully-fledged nuclear capabilities as a trivial concern. The … Continue reading “Israel’s Nuclear Puzzle Resolved: But To What End?”

What The Neo-Crazies Knew

Back in 2003, the Brits, French and Germans entered into negotiations they hoped would result in an agreement providing “objective guarantees” to the European Union that “Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.” This agreement was to equally provide “firm guarantees” to Iran “on nuclear, technological and economic cooperation and firm commitments on security … Continue reading “What The Neo-Crazies Knew”