- “Just a note: in Japanese the word Ha-i-ku contains three syllables not two, as in the mistaken "high-ku." Nonetheless, on”
Posted on Political Haiku September 1, 2010 11:40 PM - “Nothing new about the divide-and-rule modus operandi of the crypto-fascist Republican Party. I can remember my elementary school days in”
Posted on The Anatomy of Intolerance August 25, 2010 7:59 PM - “Well and concisely said, fkaZk0sm0. We have a Bill of Rights, but I won't comment on the wisdom of actually”
Posted on We Are A Nation of Pinheads August 23, 2010 8:08 PM - “Thanks for the beautiful prose, Dan. I have nothing better to add in that literary genre. The people wildly swinging”
Posted on We Are A Nation of Pinheads August 23, 2010 5:39 AM - “Absolutely true about ridicule -- especially humorous -- as the best weapon to fight Republican/fascist mob hysteria. But only President”
Posted on Religious Liberty v. National Security in Arguing for a "Mosque" August 21, 2010 8:42 PM - “True. However, "Something for Nothing" just didn't do the trick for me.”
Posted on Religious Liberty v. National Security in Arguing for a "Mosque" August 20, 2010 8:13 PM - “You cannot appease divide-and-rule fascists with concessions and/or compromises. It only whets their appetite for more. Not only that, but”
Posted on Religious Liberty v. National Security in Arguing for a "Mosque" August 20, 2010 4:17 PM - “Hence my terms of preference for barely disguised insecurity boondoggles: Warfare Welfare and Makework Militarism. Also, Parkinson's Law and the”
Posted on America's Biggest Jobs Program -- The U.S. Military August 14, 2010 4:50 PM - “Mr. Rieckhoff: As a victim/veteran of the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent (Vietnam 1970-72) I really had to laugh at this”
Posted on The President Talked About Vets at the DAV. I'll Bet You Didn't Read About That. August 4, 2010 3:22 AM - “What part of "no news" do you not understand? If the American government claims that everyone already knows all this”
Posted on Rotwang Ruminates August 2, 2010 11:14 PM - “I covered this fiscal insanity thing five years ago, Don, as part of my in-progress saga of post-linguistic cultural, economic,”
Posted on One Soldier or 20 Schools July 30, 2010 9:59 PM - “I think you wanted the word "fazed" (as in "disturbed the composure of") instead of "phased" (as in "electrical alternating”
Posted on Afghan National Police: Pot Before Patrol July 27, 2010 9:20 PM - “The Taliban had a much greater level of success eradicating poppy cultivation in Afghanistan than anything the Americans (or their”
Posted on Afghan National Police: Pot Before Patrol July 27, 2010 8:29 PM - “Thanks for the quote, Don. I'll treasure it. I don't claim to have invented the philosophy of ex-patriotism, but I've”
Posted on Afghan National Police: Pot Before Patrol July 27, 2010 3:47 AM - “What we used to derisively call the six-month "Friedman Unit" has now morphed into the "Mullen Unit" (requiring a few”
Posted on Afghan National Police: Pot Before Patrol July 26, 2010 11:03 PM - “If I remember correctly (and I do) the Taliban had pretty much established security and stamped out the drug trade”
Posted on Afghan National Police: Pot Before Patrol July 26, 2010 8:24 PM - “With all due apologies to Monica Lewinsky, it seems indisputable that Barack Obama has earned his presidential kneepads -- and”
Posted on "Hold Me Accountable" July 24, 2010 7:21 PM - “Yes. The warmed-over-from-when-it-failed-in-Vietnam "COIN" doctrine (i.e., Colonial Occupation of the Ingigenous Natives) does indeed feature major -- in fact, fatal”
Posted on What is the Sustainable End State in Afghanistan? July 24, 2010 12:18 AM - “What if they had an army, but no Rambo wannabees signed up? As others have noted, the number of erstwhile”
Posted on Memorial Day: One Holiday, Two Countries May 30, 2010 7:47 PM - “"Soldier's Soldier" Scapegoat of the king's ambition Hostage to the prince's crime Sent upon a madman's errand Soldier of another”
Posted on Memorial Day: One Holiday, Two Countries May 28, 2010 9:49 PM - “ Syndromes of Wisdom "You must not invade Mother Russia," it's said In the vast, bitter wintertime cold Napoleon, though,”
Posted on I Didn't Serve In Vietnam....And I'm Glad May 22, 2010 4:00 AM - “ Syndromes of Wisdom "You must not invade Mother Russia," it's said In the vast, bitter wintertime cold Napoleon, though,”
Posted on I Didn't Serve In Vietnam....And I'm Glad May 22, 2010 3:59 AM - “I sympathize with the veteran enlisted men and junior officers who always take the brunt of the casualties while the”
Posted on Reflections from Fort Hood on Seven Years in Iraq March 20, 2010 5:22 AM - “In the case of his comments regarding the American citizen Anwar al-Alaqi -- whom officials in the American government have”
Posted on Pentagon Quietly Explores De-Citizenship of US Citizen Terrorists February 13, 2010 5:57 PM - “I may have missed something, but when and how many of America's troops in Iraq have "come home" to America?”
Posted on Coming Home from War is No 4th of July Picnic July 4, 2009 9:25 PM - “A better synopsis of Parkinson's Law one could not hope to ask for. Yes, by all means let work expand”
Posted on The Great Disconnect April 8, 2009 5:52 AM - “In regard to those deep thinkers who see no important similarities between the Lunatic Leviathan in Cambodia and the Lunatic”
Posted on Rotwang Ruminates (4) April 1, 2009 3:08 AM - “My fellow Vietnam Veteran Daniel Ellsberg put the matter quite succinctly many years ago now: "The U.S. invaded Iraq for”
Posted on Juan Cole on Responsibility for Getting Us Into Iraq March 18, 2009 2:07 PM - “"The Taliban protected Al Qaida" ... So? What has America done in the last six years but generate even more”
Posted on Bob Herbert on Afghanistan: "War, What's It Good For?" March 3, 2009 5:02 PM - “I served eighteen months in the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent (Vietnam 1970-1972). I lost friends and high-school classmates (not to”
Posted on Bob Herbert on Afghanistan: "War, What's It Good For?" March 3, 2009 4:16 PM
