| Jan 24, 2011 | Peace / SecurityFighting drugs, A lifelong job; It makes big profits For the Mob. The Afghanistan War sometimes seems interminable. It just became the longest hot war in U.S. history. Europe’s Hundred Years War remains the world record holder, but things moved slower back then....
| Jan 17, 2011 | Peace / SecurityAlbert Einstein famously defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If that doesn’t accurately describe the more than nine-year-old U.S. war in Afghanistan, I don’t know what does. The results of the surge of tens...
| Jan 10, 2011 | Peace / SecurityThe failure of the U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan to contain the anti-government insurgency has led the Obama administration to expand the undeclared war in Pakistan. According to the Long War Journal, the number of U.S. attacks in Pakistan, using unmanned Predator...
| | Peace / SecurityOur society, like most others, glorifies war. “For God and Country!” is the cry. “Be all you can be,” is the manly challenge. “Bring ’em on,” was George W. Bush’s machismo war whoop, which drew cheers from...