War (2010)

© 2012 Peter Free

 

Holiday Perspective — Mindful of Airmen, Seamen, Soldiers, and Marines in a Time of War (25 December 2010)

 

 

Veterans Day (11 November 2010)

 

 

Perspective against Apathy ─ The Washington Post’s “Faces of the Fallen” (04 November 2010)

 

 

The New Afghanistan Plan, Negotiating with the Taliban ─ Just How Successful Will that Be?

(02 November 2010)

 

 

In Memoriam for All Who Have Fallen ─ Army Ranger Sgt. First Class Lance Vogeler ─ Killed on His Twelfth Deployment (23 October 2010)

 

 

Even Former Ambassadors Can Think in Surprisingly Flawed Terms ─Former Bush Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad Wants to Invade Pakistan to Improve the Situation in Afghanistan (19 October 2010)

 

 

A Hopeful Education and Cultural Experiment in Oman Is Not Transferable to Afghanistan ─ A Conservative View (14 October 2010)

 

 

War Breeds War Crimes by its Nature ─ but High-Ranking Rogue Leadership and a Non-Functioning Chain of Supervisory Command Should Not Contribute to Them (14 October 2010)

 

 

Turning the Military’s Dead into Political Ploys at Arlington National Cemetery ─ Can We Get any More Morally Revolting? (12 October 2010)

 

 

Charles Krauthammer’s Conservative Political Criticism of the Commander in Chief Parallels My Centrist One ─ The President Has Put Himself in an Untenable Strategic Position at the Expense of Other People’s Lives (01 October 2010)

 

 

An Ambivalent Commander in Chief Worsens a Bad Situation in Afghanistan (24 September 2010)

 

 

The New York Times’ “A Year at War” ─ A Visual and Narrative Story with Soulful Meaning

(23 September 2010)

 

 

Acting as if Perfect Security Is Achievable Is Strategically and Morally Unwise ─ The Primary Analytical Flaw underlying Our Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (11 September 2010)

 

 

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki ─ Trying to Do What Is Right against a Tide of Government Inertia (02 September 2010)

 

 

Hanging Our Troops Out to Bleed ─ Politicians’ Islamic Cultural Center Button-Pushing Puts Our Troops into More Danger (23 August 2010)

 

 

Missing the Point in Afghanistan ─ Starting Wars Almost Always Escalates Violence toward Uncontrollable, Undesirable Strategic Effects (27 July 2010)

 

 

Casualty of War – One Soldier’s Psychic Strength in Stark Contrast with the Spinelessness of Our Political Leaders (03 July 2010)

 

 

Public Indifference to U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan Requires Re-instituting the Draft as a Means of Reminding Americans of the Need for a Less Selfish Personal and Public Morality (30 June 2010)

 

 

Two New York Times Opinion Columns Explain the Options in Afghanistan(28 June 2010)

 

 

Afghanistan: You Can’t Make a Fictional Nation Do What You Want (28 June 2010)

 

Afghanistan: Our Guiltless Acquiescence in a Mistaken War Feeds the Political Cowards Who Lead Us

(17 June 2010)

 

 

President Obama’s Cynical Escalation of War in Afghanistan Is Not Helpful (12 May 2010)

 

 

Atrocities and psychological harms are predictable consequences of war ─ considering both before starting a war should be ethically mandatory (12 May 2010)

 

 

We Must Honor Our Courageous Young Military People with Wiser Leadership ─ United States’ De Facto Policy of Continual War Is Immoral (03 May 2010)

 

 

Geopolitical Ineptitude Often Characterizes American Foreign Policy ─Afghanistan (03 May 2010)