War (2011)

© 2012 Peter Free

 

 

A Spiritual Season Topic — the Moral Disease of Not Giving a Darn — the American Public’s Unconcern with Death and Wounding in Afghanistan — We Can’t Blame It All on the Media (27 December 2011)

 

 

What’s Secrete “Here” Is Not Secret “There” — How America’s Due Process-Lacking Anti-Terrorist Drone War Is Probably Going to Result in the Reverse of What Was Intended (20 December 2011)

 

 

Iraq Demonstrates the Unyielding Grasp that the Big Oil/Military-Industrial Complex Has on the World — Most of Us Are Oblivious, even When Our Sons and Daughters Die in Service to Its Grasping (13 December 2011)

 

 

Veterans Day (11 November 2011)

 

 

Missing Body Parts at Dover Air Force Base — Displaced Emotion Misdirects Us from Focusing on the Senseless Wars We Start (and Linger in) to What Happens after Our Inexcusable Foolishness Dismembers Our Most Valued People (10 November 2011)

 

 

Serial Murder in America’s Name — the Immoral Use of Drone Attacks against the Collaterally Innocent — What Happens when U.S. Leadership Goes Paranoidly Mad (07 November 2011)

 

 

The Intensely Hypocritical Obama Administration Is Now Calling for an Investigation into Libyan Dictator Qaddafi’s Death — after Doing Everything They Could to Make Exactly that Happen (24 October 2011)

 

 

Astonishing Short-Sightedness — the Problem of Focusing on a Tree, rather than the Forest in American Foreign Affairs — too-Early Pronouncements of Success in Post-Qaddafi Libya (21 October 2011)

 

 

Terrorist Access to Libyan Shoulder-Fired Missiles — a Predictable Consequence of President Obama’s Foolish Intervention — Bad for the Public and the American Deficit, but Really Good for the Military-Industrial Complex (28 September 2011)

 

 

Doug Bandow’s Intelligently Detailed Criticism of President Obama’s War in Libya — As Good as It Gets (31 August 2011)

 

 

More Foolishness from the Media and the Politicians that Play to It — Too Early Pronouncements that President Obama Was Right to Start a War in Libya (24 August 2011)

 

 

Where We Are Now, a Striking Contrast — on the One Hand, an Exploding Helicopter Filled with Duty, Honor, Courage, Integrity, Teamwork, and the Sad Misfortune of War — on the Other, a Congress and President Characterized by Avoidance, Dishonor, Cowardice, Lie-Telling, Self-Dealing, and Outrageously Inequitable Personal Comfort (09 August 2011)

 

 

Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Washington Post Report about the 1950s “Little America/Lashkar Gah” Project in Afghanistan Captures the Futility of Attempting to Change a Culture that Doesn’t Want to Change (06 August 2011)

 

In Wrong-Headed Wars, When Do a Nation’s Broken Promises become Its Citizens’ Personal Shame? — Abandoning the Foreign Locals Who Helped Us in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam (21 July 2011)

 

 

Small Picture National Security Concerns Sometimes Go too Far, Damaging Larger American Interests — the CIA’s Alleged Bogus Vaccination Program in Pakistan (14 July 2011)

 

 

The United States Government Exhibits an Increasingly Casual Disregard for Examining the Morality of War — Being Top Dog Seems to Have Come at the Price of Weakening Our Ethical Integrity (01 July 2011)

 

 

Former State Department Officer Matt Sherman Accurately Stated that Afghanistan’s Population Is Not at the Desperation Point that Motivated Iraq’s (at Least Temporary) Turn Around — but He Avoids Drawing the Necessary Conclusion (27 June 2011)

 

 

Senator John McCain — America’s Voice for Demented Militarism (23 June 2011)

 

 

Half-Mast — Reminders of War in a Time of National Forgetfulness (10 June 2011)

 

 

A Tenth Memorial Day — and the Inexcusable Wasting of American Lives Continues in Afghanistan (28 May 2011)

 

 

How Delayed Justice Is Not Justice at All — the Arrest of War Crimes Criminal, Ratko Mladic, and the Still Fresh Memories Awakened in Former U.N. Spokesperson, Kelly Moore, Who Was in Bosnia During the Slaughter (27 May 2011)

 

 

The Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rapped the Veterans Administration for Unconsionable Delays in (a) Caring for Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and/or Suicidal Thoughts and (b) Responding to Veterans’ Death and Disability Claims  — Our Self-Indulgent Civilian Culture Treats the Military Like an Admirable but Disposable Class of Indentured Servants (12 May 2011)

 

 

Lawful Morality in Regard to Arresting Terrorists — Glenn Greenwald Asks Us to Assess the Legal Legitimacy of the Execution of Osama bin Laden — My Answer Is that Realism and Nuance Often Trumps Principles In Balancing Survival Risks (07 May 2011)

 

 

A Necessary Argument — Disputing John Feffer’s Criticism of the United States’ Allegedly Counterproductive Martyrdom of Osama bin Laden (03 May 2011)

 

 

A Contrast in Levels of Strategic Competence — Getting Bin Laden Special Forces-Style versus Invading Two Countries at Unproductively High Cost (02 May 2011)

 

 

Another Cost of War — Not Knowing How Many Civilians Have Died and Not Knowing How Many More of Our Own Troops Are Being Killed under Rules of Engagement Meant to Prevent Collateral Civilian Deaths (25 April 2011)

 

 

Grenades, Mortars, and Libya’s Sand — Al Jazeera’s Evan Hill Describes the Chaos that Killed Photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros (22 April 2011)

 

 

It Says Nothing Flattering about American Consciousness that President Obama Started a Third War (in Libya) and Most Americans Have already Forgotten about It (21 April 2011)

 

 

Until We Fix Ourselves, the Hope of Fixing Others Is a Delusion — the War-Making Impulse (30 March 2011)

 

 

President Obama’s Cynical Abdication of Leadership in Libya (25 March 2011)

 

 

If Ya Don’t Know Nuthin’, How Smart Ya Gonna Be? — The American Public’s Ignorance-Based Approach to almost Everything, Including the Libyan War (22 March 2011)

 

 

American Strategic Stupidity on Display Again — Short-Sighted U.S. Diplomacy in the United Nations Probably Commits Americans to another Probably Counterproductive Intervention — this Time in Libya (18 March 2011)

 

 

Defense Secretary Gates’ Unenviable Position — Chewing Our NATO Allies Out under Circumstances in which their Afghanistan-Slighting Behavior Is Probably the Right Thing to Do (11 March 2011)

 

 

Senator John Kerry’s Washington Post Opinion Column, Calling for a No-Fly Zone in Libya, Does Not Address U.S. National Interests or the Reasons to Worry about a Subsequent Geopolitical Backlash (11 March 2011)

 

 

Pursuing Military Energy Efficiency (with Sprayed Building Insulation) Would Reduce the Financial Costs and Troop Deaths Associated with Fuel Convoys — Says Retired Brigadier General Steven M. Anderson (14 January 2011)

 

 

An Afghanistan Reminder from Vietnam — 41 Years Afterward, Remains of Colonel  James E. Dennany (Weapons System Officer) and Major Robert L. Tucci (Pilot) Identified from Crash Site in Laos and Returned Home (13 January 2011)

 

 

Afghanistan, the Volunteer Military, and the United States’ Lost Integrity(04 January 2011)