This should not surprise anyone: Pentagon leaders have recommended to President Bush that the United States make no further troop reductions in Iraq this year, administration officials said yesterday. The plan, delivered this week, calls for extending a pause in drawdowns until late January or early February — after the Bush administration has left office. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pentagon’
Shocking! The Pentagon Wants to Keep All the Troops in Iraq
Posted: September 5, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilians, Iraq, Jesus, nonviolence, Parable of the Weeds, Pentagon
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Weaponized Xbox Controllers, The Myth of Redemptive Violence and the Militarization of Play
Posted: September 5, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Army, Close Combat, Fleet Week, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo, Pentagon, Raytheon, video games, Wii, World of Warcraft, Xbox
One of the deepest challenges that comes with the Christian faith is the constant struggle to reject false dilemmas, the most pervasive of which is the false dilemma of “fight or flight.” We learn to see conflicts in terms of this false choice from an early age, and we learn that “fight” is the “honorable” [...]
Not Good Enough
Posted: August 26, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, civilian casualties, Herat, Pentagon
AFP: CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) – The United States expressed regret Sunday for any civilian deaths from US-led military operations in Afghanistan, without confirming reports of nearly 90 killed in one incident this week. “We regret the loss of life among the innocent Afghanis who we are committed to protect,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto said [...]
Incoming
Posted: August 18, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, defense contractors, defense spending, Georgia, Navy, nonviolence, Pentagon, Russia
Everyone knows that war in general and the Iraq war specifically has meant big money for defense contractors, but a new congressional report puts it in stark relief: …[T]he scale of the use of contractors in Iraq is unprecedented in US history, according to a new congressional report that may be the most thorough official account [...]
