Tag Archives: Afghanistan

Jul 23 NO comments
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Psychopathy Legitimized (Fred Reed)

On Antiwar.com, I find a loutish American general, James Mattis, martial feminist, talking about the fun he has killing Afghans. Yes, fun, wheeee-oooo! and ooo-rah! too. He says, “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil,” adding “guys like that ain’t got no [...]

May 30 NO comments
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Switch On Your B-S Detector (Justin Raimondo)

When people ask me the “what do you do?” question in casual conversation, and I answer “I write a column on foreign affairs,” my interlocutor is invariably impressed: wow, you mean you write about all that really heavy, important stuff, the sort of stuff that’s Greek to us everyday ordinary types? That’s great! Well, actually, it [...]

May 18 NO comments
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The Five-Sided House of Usher (Jeff Huber)

The tea leaves tell me we’re about to experience a seismic event that will produce the next collapse of our five-sided House of Usher, the Pentagon. The last time we saw a temblor of that magnitude was in November 2006. Just before the mid-term election, young Mr. Bush assured us that then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [...]