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Obama Speaks Some Truth From Power
President Barack Obama’s Nobel lecture last Thursday in Oslo shows he understands that “peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.” “Only a just peace based upon the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting,” he said. Hearing a president say this is mind blowing and illustrates the side of… »
Afghanistan, “So it Goes”
Fanciful prescriptions for “success.” Voters who value peace demoralized. Siding with war hawks to triangulate against progressives. Another $30 billion the American people will have nothing to show for.
As Kurt Vonnegut used to say, “So it goes.”
President Barack Obama has decided to prolong the debilitating American military commitment to Afghanistan. He is sending another thirty… »
Wall Street is More of a Threat to Obama’s Domestic Agenda Than Afghanistan
“Deficits don’t matter.” When Vice President Dick Cheney uttered this famous line he was making a political judgment, not an economic one. In 2001, when the newly selected President George W. Bush and his posse rode into Washington they immediately began in earnest the chicanery, lying and recklessness that we came to expect throughout the… »
Afghanistan: Presidential Double Standards and Military Power
On October 23, 1983, when Shia militants in Lebanon killed 241 American military personnel outside the Beirut airport with a suicide truck bomb, President Ronald Reagan vowed to continue the troops’ mission in Lebanon. Reagan had repeatedly claimed that Lyndon Johnson forced American soldiers to fight in Vietnam “with one hand tied behind their backs”… »
Just One More Example of Edward Kennedy’s Service to His Country
Among the thousands of contributions to his country that Edward Kennedy made throughout the course of his 46-year career in the United States Senate one episode that stands out to me is his role in exposing the human costs of the American war in Vietnam. In early January 1968, just prior to the Tet Offensive,… »