Endless War category archive
No End in Sight 0
Jane Harman, former Congressperson and current president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, ponders the pressure for yet another Great and Glorious War for a Lie with a Country whose Name Starts with “I.” She recalls Colin Powell’s speech mongering the Great and Glorious War for a Lie in Iraq.
A snippet:
Much later, Powell would call his U.N. speech a “great intelligence failure” and a “blot” on his record.
Gird Your Grid for the Big One 0
Mike warns that we are again facing a Great and Glorious War for a Lie in a Country with a Name that Starts with “I” and discusses the long history of U. S. and British meddling in Iran. Some of his analogies may seem a bit extreme, but I wonder . . . .
The video is below the fold because of language and the possibility of autoplay.
War and Mongers of War 0
Leon Anderson points out that the United States has pursued a de facto policy of almost perpetual war, all undeclared and some secret and covert, for decades.
If you include President Carter’s failed attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran, every President since Eisenhower–who left office warning us of the “military-industrial comples”–has sent American soldiers into harm’s way, often for made-up reasons. Anderson explores the cost of America’s continual wars. A snippet:
In terms of financial cost, the numbers are staggering. Afghanistan alone has cost a trillion dollars. Just think what we might have accomplished at home if that money had been spent on education, job training, medical research, infrastructure improvements, water purification and sanitation. You can add to this list. It’s all important, but taking a backseat to our military funding.
War for the Sake of War? 0
In the Des Moines Register, a career military officer approaches retirement and wonders whether his was a misspent career. An excerpt:
The Art of the Con, Undealt Dept. 0
Thom and Scott Ritter discusses Donald Trump’s un-dealing the Iran Nuclear Peace Deal.
I would add that tension between the U. S. and Iran goes much farther back than 1979.
The Cycle of Strife 0
(Syntax error fixed and that was a new one for me. If you use carets even surrounded by quotation marks in the alt-text for an image, they can still affect the markup.)
Presidential Participation Trophy 0
Will Bunch suggests that President George the Worst does not deserve to receive an award that has variously been shared by Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, and Rep. John Lewis.
Methinks he has a point.
(Broken link fixed.)
“Lessons Learned . . .” 0
. . . and, as Shaun Mullen points out, they were the wrong damned lessons.
Swampwater 0
President George the Worst’s mercenaries are back in the news.