| Mar 14, 2011 | Peace / SecurityYet again, our leaders think they’ve got a calling to save a country in the Middle East. You would think with the bang-up job we’ve done saving Iraq and Afghanistan (not to mention Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) we could call it a day, wouldn’t you? But...
| Mar 7, 2011 | Peace / Security“While we are investing in areas that are critical to our future, we are also rooting out programs that aren’t needed and making hard choices to tighten our belt,” declared Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Hold on. Less than 20 percent of the Energy...
| | Peace / SecurityLet’s take a little trip to Irony, Arizona. It’s not a town, but a concept. Though the state’s political leaders don’t seem at all familiar with it. Claiming to represent the will of the people, they’ve enacted the most free-wheeling gun...
| Feb 28, 2011 | Peace / SecurityWith all the astoundingly grisly incidents involving Mexico’s armed forces these days, one thing is clear: the drug war is failing. The Mexican military shouldn’t get another penny of U.S. military aid. However, the White House’s new budget proposal...
| | Peace / SecurityCombat’s dreadful In Iraq; Not much better When you’re back. Forget for a moment the death, devastation, deprivation, disease, displacement, and despair visited upon civilians in war zones. Let’s briefly contemplate the fate of soldiers. Ours,...
| Feb 21, 2011 | Peace / SecurityThe Obama administration is scrambling to get on the right side of history. It has a lot of ground to make up. History is mostly judging the United States these days for launching, and now perpetuating, the longest wars in our history. Initially sold as a war to...
