I wonder how many Americans remember being taught to beware of False Prophets? I find it amazing how easy our political an corporate leaders lay the blame for failed un-conational wars at the feet of We The People. Maybe it…
I couldn’t agree more with the letter in today’s Opinion section of the Post that was written by J.M. Haas than if I had written it myself.
Afghanistan is a political and social quagmire of gigantic proportions and the people of…
It seems to me, those at the Pentagon promote wars in countries they barely understand, countries whose history they flat-out ignore, at great cost to the rest of us. As it was in Vietnam and Iraq, now being repeated in…
The much thrown around phrase “nation-building” appearing in Bob Herbert’s column led me to some tangential thought. The phrase, too often attached to our past interventionist goals around the world, suggests need for profound changes, as f what exists does…
Having served overseas in the Middle East as an adviser to US Forces on the ground I am concerned with the recent arguments being haphazardly tossed around regarding Afghanistan. Once again we see those who lack understanding of global conflict…
We are being told that we are “under-resourced” in Afghanistan. Of cource Afghanistan WAS under-resourced in 2001 and 2002 when more troops there might have reduced or wiped out the fag end of the Taliban after we had bombed them…
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