Showing posts with label afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label afghanistan. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2014

What You Should Know about CIA Torture

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Can you handle the truth? Then here it is, in simple language: The CIA engaged in pointless sadistic practices against people many ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

State of War, by James Risen: a review

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Things you'll learn, or be reminded of and still shocked by, if you read State of War by James Risen: CIA Director George Tenet got ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Invisible Army

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We treat our active-duty military like tools and our veterans like bums. But there are more contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan than there ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Penny-wise and Patriotism--foolish

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As I have previously pointed out, when the U.S. government sends troops to war, it condemns them to all kinds of health problems, from PTSD...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The Limits of Power

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Americans confuse freedom with a never-ending abundance of goods. As the economic power of the U.S. has declined, we have naively relied on...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Don't Get Fooled Again

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Part of my schoolwork in the late 1960s was to make myself immune from media bias. I distinctly remember doing a report about the various w...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Election Distraction

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Should we end the war in Afghanistan as quick as we can, or possibly send in more troops? Can we provide health care (not just insurance!) ...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Morphing into "Bush Light" on Security Issues

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There's more than the proverbial dime's worth of difference between Obama and Bush on domestic policy. In fact, for the anti-povert...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

A Bad Week for Liberal Idealists

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I feel bad for my liberal friends today, especially for those people (young and old) who thought electing Barack Obama as President would m...
Friday, May 1, 2009

A Tiger Set Loose

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There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the fa...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Ghost Wars, conclusion: The Limits of Hard Power

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The U.S. does not have the power to defend itself against terrorist attacks, and it is not doing the things it would take to build that powe...
Friday, April 3, 2009

Yes, Mr. President, There is a Habeas Corpus

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You can't call someone a terror suspect, lock him up, and throw away the key, whether the prison is in Guantanamo, Cuba or Bagram, Afgha...

A Life Sentence for Vets

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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen , was blunt about psychological and family problems of vets returning from Ir...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Ghost Wars, part II

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The enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend. That's a second lesson I've learned by reading Steve Coll's history of U.S. involvement...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Ghost Wars, part I

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Payback is a poor excuse for a foreign policy. That's one of the lessons I derive from reading Steve Coll's Ghost Wars : The Secre...