From a book review by Halden: The global ambitions, both political and economic, which Bush awkwardly stumbled after through chicanery and military adventurism have a far more likely chance of being actualized under the rule of an intelligent, polished, and internationally embraced figure like President Obama. It may well be that in a post-Bush age, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bush’
Blatant Self-Promotion
Posted: November 10, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Bush, Derrick Crowe, Iraq, Obama
I just posted on BraveNewFilms regarding the costs of an escalation in Afghanistan. Check it out. UPDATE: Part two of my “No Afghanistan Escalation” series is up on BraveNewFilms. Have a look. UPDATE II: We’re on the front page of AlterNet and BraveNewFilms! Weeeeeee! Also, I finally put up a bio about myself on the [...]
Pardon a Brief Interruption
Posted: September 17, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Bush, Iraq, Odierno, Petraeus
I have to help run a two-day conference at work, which will prevent me from blogging again until Saturday, September 20th. See you then. In the meantime, here’s a letter to the editor I wrote in response to a breathless editorial praising General David Petraeus’ performance in Iraq. Here’s hoping it gets published: I was [...]
Merchants of Death Watch the Cash Roll In
Posted: September 14, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: arms trade, Boeing, Bush, Human Smoke, Jesus, Lockheed Martin, nonviolence
War is big business, people. According to this morning’s The New York Times: From tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to missiles, remotely piloted aircraft and even warships, the Department of Defense has agreed so far this fiscal year to sell or transfer more than $32 billion in weapons and other military equipment to foreign governments, [...]
The Days After September 11th, 2001: What Might Have Been
Posted: September 12, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Bush, Jesus, nonviolence, September 11
What might have been: September 14, 2001. My fellow Americans: O God, how did we get here? Where have all of our friends gone? Where is our family? When will we see them again? Our friends, our loved ones – they are dead! They are dead – pulverized to dust. They’re in the air [...]
Brief Interruption
Posted: August 31, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Bush, Gustav, nonviolence, war powers
I have to get a manuscript ready for a publisher…there’s so much going on this weekend that I want to talk about but can’t! So, here’s a link roundup. You talk about it. Bush seeks to extend war powers indefinately. Will Congress stop him? Will the next president reverse him? I hope so, but I [...]
