The Pentagon is backpedaling on leaked reports of pending troop increase requests from Gen. McChrystal. WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – An assessment of the war in Afghanistan by the top U.S. and NATO commander there is no longer expected by mid-August and will not include a request for extra troops, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. [...]
Archive for August 6, 2009
On Afghanistan, Five-Sided Backpedaling
Posted: August 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Congressional Research Service, escalation, Levin, Lieberman, McChrystal, Obama, Rory Stewart
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Hiroshima
Posted: August 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: civilian casualties, civilian deaths, George Zabelka, Hiroshima, Jesus, nonviolence
Sixty-four years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, instantly killing about 80,000 people and eventually leading to the death of between 90,000-140,000 people. Forty years later, Catholic chaplain George Zabelka, who had blessed the crews of the bombers that dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, gave a speech titled, [...]
