Category Archives: militaria

rejecting the cult

Posted on Monday, 2009 June 08 by Anton

Sheldon Richman (with help from Paddy Chayevsky) nails Memorial Day.

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military strategy for dummies

Posted on Saturday, 2007 November 03 by Anton

When they say “we’re fighting them in Iraq so that we don’t have to fight them at home,” what do they mean? I’m imagining wannabe-terrorists throughout the Moslem world moaning, “I’d like to go to the Great Satan and blow … Continue reading →

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the trouble with neutrality

Posted on Monday, 2006 February 06 by Anton

Alan Bock writes: So it was time to break out one of the oldest canards in American political discourse – the assertion that anybody who questions any particular military adventure is – cue the boo track – a nasty old … Continue reading →

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Inevitability

Posted on Monday, 2006 January 02 by Anton

Libertango makes a couple of keen points about the war. (Cited by Terry Karney whom I don’t think I’ve seen since he was about sixteen.)

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Obsidian Wings: Requiem

Posted on Saturday, 2005 November 19 by Anton

The good news: the pseudo-judicial process at Gitmo isn’t absolutely rigged to find everyone guilty of terrorism. The bad news: innocence isn’t enough to get you out of the hole. (Cited by Gary Farber.)

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and don’t stop until you catch your tail

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 September 20 by Anton

That droll Mr Bush recently said it would be bad to stop killing people and breaking stuff in Iraq before “the mission” is completed. Say what? I thought the mission was to take Saddam’s nukes and war-germs and bad chemicals … Continue reading →

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still not settled down yet; give it another good shake

Posted on Monday, 2005 August 29 by Anton

Why “we” went to war, version 7 or so: Rummy says You do not defeat Al Qaeda until you stabilize the Middle East, and that’s not possible as long as Saddam Hussein is in power. (Cited, for other reasons, by … Continue reading →

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