Archive for April 18th, 2008
Cindy McCain is keeping the details of her income private, thank you very much. Never mind that her husband hopes to become the next President of the United States, the highest public office in the land. It makes you wonder who/what/where contributed to her vast fortune and why she would want to conceal those details. Ahhh, secrecy. Ain’t it comforting? Doesn’t it make you feel confident that McCain’s would be an open and honest presidency, that he would serve as a president of and for the people - and not be beholden to special interest groups? McCain really represents a new breed of politician! … Um, not so much.
Is anyone surprised by this report from the National Defense University??? Shouldn’t be. Our failure is one (of many) reason we are building walls in Baghdad. Building walls = failure of policy, failure of strategy, failure of diplomacy, failure of basic communication.
The war in Iraq is far from over. The battle lumbers on in Baghdad and Basra between Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army and Iraqi and American troops. But, as the fighting in Basra a couple weeks ago showed us, without American support the current Iraqi army is all but irrelevant. And American opposition to Sadr shelves nothing of the incredible respect Sadr enjoys in hearts and minds throughout Iraq.
Why am I even bothering writing about this? Because it is high time for Americans to know as much of the truth of what is going on in Iraq as possible. These ongoing conflicts and battles barely get reported in the media. And the casualties keep piling up.
Does anyone actually feel any safer because of this war?!?
Global Warming - to - changing environments and landscapes - to - changing human behavior - to - emerging tribal and regional conflicts - to - shrinking energy and food supplies. Haiti feels the pain today. Who tomorrow?
I did write about this daaays ago: parallels to the Great Depression evident.
Despite all of our efforts the number of suicide bombings has dramatically increased since 2001 worldwide. Who still thinks the surge is working?