“Only a man who carries a gun ever needs one”
Many years ago, during the 1968 Presidential campaign, there was a cartoon showing a crown roaring along a street and at the bottom of the single panel cartoon was a tiny figure (Bobby Kennedy) saying, “Oh M-God, I have to catch up with that crowd, I’m their leader.” The point is that it is often [...]
Should we reinstate the Draft?
A few nights ago Bill Moyers suggested in his verbal essay at the end of his program, “Bill Moyers Journal,” that the real way to bring sanity to foreign war policy would be to reinstate the draft. That way, he reasoned, the general population of the United States would have a genuine interest in whether [...]
Stupid Foreign Policy?
“Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars”, By Jeffrey Gettleman in NY Times 4 /12/09 states:
“…[A]ny effort to wipe out Somali pirate dens like Xarardheere or Eyl immediately conjures up the ghost of “Black Hawk Down,” the episode in 1993 when clan militiamen in flip-flops killed 18 American soldiers. Until America can get over that, and [...]
Things That Go Boom
By now you may have heard that small explosive went off in front of the Army recruiting center in Time Square during the very-early morning hours. Reading through the New York Times coverage of the event left me with a few questions about who the folks were that they interviewed to get some choice reaction [...]
Rise of the Machines
Remember when I wrote about the armed robots patrolling the streets in Iraq? Well, it might be time to start worrying about those machines.
Here’s the deal: “Many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger.” Well, one of these [...]
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