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Thank You for Your Obedience
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (279+ words) We are all familiar with this expression and may use it ourselves when we learn that someone was in the military. "I can think of"occasions in my life when it seemed like the right thing to say, and the…...
In MAGA's version of history, America won the Vietnam and Afghanistan Wars
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (638+ words) The old declare war, the young fight it We won? Who knew? To his credit, McCormick did say a ground war was not his first choice. However, he did imply it could be his second.In his words: "Yeah, I…...
Modern Warfare is Unwinnable
2+ week, 1+ day ago (263+ words) I'm not a military expert, but if I have learned one lesson over the my lifetime it is that modern war is an exercise in futility." More specifically, asymmetrical warfare" can even the odds against better equipt and funded opponents....
Two essays from James Fallows: The Arrogance of Ignorance; The Folly of War Grows Worse
2+ week, 4+ day ago (801+ words) James Fallows is one of the writers I turn to when I need context and perspective. Last week he published a thought-provoking piece "The Arrogance of Ignorance that began"with this: This week I realized that over the past 45 years…...
Why do we keep "losing" wars? Because we pick stupid wars to fight.
2+ week, 5+ day ago (28+ words) Why do we keep "losing" wars? Because we pick stupid wars to fight.Daily Kos Why do we keep "losing" wars? Because we pick stupid wars to fight....
Want some Fascism with that order?
2+ week, 6+ day ago (223+ words) How DHS reflects historical lessons from dictatorships The Problem Isn't Extremists. It's That You Don't Need Them. Most people assume that repressive organizations are filled with true believers " ideological extremists who genuinely want to harm others, or at minimum sadists…...
Cartoon: Failing to plan is planning to WIN BIGLY!
2+ week, 5+ day ago (184+ words) Cartoon: Failing to plan is planning to WIN BIGLY!Daily Kos Cartoon: Failing to plan is planning to WIN BIGLY! Peaceable warmonger Trump is nowthreatening alliesin an attempt to get them to help fix something he broke. Well, not fix…...
The Fourth Estate and the Forth Reich - Unexpected Bedfellows?
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (215+ words) The Fourth Estate and the Forth Reich - Unexpected Bedfellows?Daily Kos The Fourth Estate and the Forth Reich - Unexpected Bedfellows? (BTW: notice that this news is not reported anywhere in our domestic media today) Evidently the Godhead in Mar A…...
"EVERY ROCKET FIRED [is] A THEFT...."
3+ week, 2+ day ago (187+ words) For ELEVEN BILLION+ DOLLARS(What the US Military spent in the First Week of the War Against Iran), WHO SAID THE FOLLOWING: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a THEFT…...
How Republicans keep screwing up their wars
4+ week, 21+ hour ago (820+ words) Explaining the Right'is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics'and why you need to know. The Trump administration's war on Iran has been a mess.' Even before bombs started…...