This insightful TED Talk by Sebastian Junger, a journalist who has covered many war zones is well worth watching. This is why our politicians need to stop sending our young people off to far corners of the world on ill-designed quests for the politician's satisfaction of some abstract ideology, and then assuming that everything is going to be just fine and there will be no after-effects from the experience.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Naughty, Naughty Pentagon!
Sometimes I wonder if it is avarice, shrewdness, indifference, or just plain old incompetence that makes the Pentagon the worst run cabinet-level department almost since its inception. At least a small part of the Senate (which is still getting a few things done, unlike the comatose House) is asking some pointed questions.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Thanks George and Dick!
There is no way to say for certain if Iraq would have fallen apart on its own by now, but there is very little doubt that the Molotov cocktail thrown into the country that accelerated things tremendously was George II's ill-advised, probably illegal, and trumped-up invasion of Iraq. Not to mention the huge toll it took and is still taking, and will be taking on this country for decades to come.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27789229
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27789229
Monday, June 2, 2014
We Need More Guns!
Don't we ?????
...even more
...and more
...and more
...some more
...more (updating this is getting to be a daily task...this is only for June, and it is only the 10th)
...more
...more (this one shows why the very presence of guns in your residence raises the possibility you will be killed by one tremendously - something the CDC was researching until the NRA goons leaned on the wimpy Congress to abandon it).
...one more, with one day in June still to go
...a final coda to the gun-crazy tragedies of this lead-filled month. The sad thing is it wasn't all that special a month by gunfire standards...in the United States. About 20 children per day, or 7,000 per year are injured or killed by a gun both accidentally and intentionally in the US. You need to go to a third-world country under constant war or civil unrest to match such a dismal record.
And finally...a chilling picture of what this looks like to the rest of the world, and what it might say for the US's continued involvement in the world, if people are too afraid to come here and bring their knowledge and ideas..
...even more
...and more
...and more
...some more
...more (updating this is getting to be a daily task...this is only for June, and it is only the 10th)
...more
...more (this one shows why the very presence of guns in your residence raises the possibility you will be killed by one tremendously - something the CDC was researching until the NRA goons leaned on the wimpy Congress to abandon it).
...one more, with one day in June still to go
...a final coda to the gun-crazy tragedies of this lead-filled month. The sad thing is it wasn't all that special a month by gunfire standards...in the United States. About 20 children per day, or 7,000 per year are injured or killed by a gun both accidentally and intentionally in the US. You need to go to a third-world country under constant war or civil unrest to match such a dismal record.
And finally...a chilling picture of what this looks like to the rest of the world, and what it might say for the US's continued involvement in the world, if people are too afraid to come here and bring their knowledge and ideas..
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