War (2016-2018)

© 2019 Peter Free

 

So much for adoring the Baby in the Manger — an observation about fake Christianity (26 December 2018)

 

 

President Trump poked the Deep State — and OMG the world is ending (so they say) (22 December 2018)

 

 

A quote from Congressman Collin Peterson — well expresses the United States' characteristic lack of knowledge and conscience (14 December 2018)

 

 

Let's start a war with China? — Canada, under American direction — provocatively arrested Huawei's Meng Wanzhou for no good reason (07 December 2018)

 

 

The Republican Party of the Anti-Christ — enjoys gnawing on the bloody guts — of slaughtered Yemeni children (14 November 2018)

 

 

We will stop, but we won't? — US hypocrisy in Yemen continues (12 November 2018)

 

 

The American Netanyahu in Chief — thinks that rocks are guns (02 November 2018)

 

 

Let's have a nuclear war — wouldn't that be great? (22 October 2018)

 

 

Zionist Israel's happy puppet (19 October 2018)

 

 

American morality is exclusively defined by money — indicates President Trump (11 October 2018)

 

 

Command Sergeant Major Timothy Bolyard deserved better than he got — deadly American stone-headedness continues in Afghanistan (27 September 2018)

 

 

Senator McCain is lying in state at the US capitol — what a statement that makes (01 September 2018)

 

 

America is warmongering again — this time over the United Kingdom's Skripal poisonings (11 August 2018)

 

 

Exploiting America's warrior class — and a question about responsibility (08 August 2018)

 

 

Department of Defense thought control — keeping military minds vacuous (07 August 2018)

 

 

Trump's Space Force order — characterizes the United States' bankrupting lunacy (22 June 2018)

 

 

Forever war — Andrew Bacevich blames politicians, not generals — but I point to the System that produces both (07 June 2018)

 

 

US Secretary of State — Mike Pompeo — is doing his best to start a war with Iran (21 May 2018)

 

 

Zionist Israel — and its murdering ironies (17 May 2018)

 

 

President Trump just took an IQ test — of sorts (09 May 2018)

 

 

Toddler Donald stirs the "poop pot" again (08 May 2018)

 

 

Like Imperial Rome — USA versus Syria — missile strike (16 April 2018)

 

 

What a superbly concise analysis — of the American state — by Paul Edwards (12 April 2018)

 

 

Sergei Skripal spy-murder concoction — flying nukes would not be all that bad, would they?(30 March 2018)

 

 

Have you noticed how the least governmentally competent — most soul-deficient people — rise to power in the United States? (24 March 2018)

 

 

Matt Taibbi's dissection of US culture — is worth a read (22 March 2018)

 

 

Another win for the butchers of children — Senate tables a resolution to end US assistance to maniacal Saudia Arabia's Yemen war (21 March 2018)

 

 

Violence-promoting Mike Pompeo rises to head the Department of State (13 March 2018)

 

 

Representative of testosterone-cavorting American militarism — is Senator Lindsey Graham (06 March 2018)

 

 

President Putin just sent the belligerence-crazed United States a warning — will American leadership pay sensible attention? (01 March 2018)

 

 

When things were becoming slightly less threatening for the divided Koreas — the United States intentionally worsened the situation (26 February 2018)

 

 

The US does not have a clue — what a vital national interest is — an illustrating quote from our Secretary of Homeland Security (02 February 2018)

 

 

Our schoolboy-earnest national security advisor — H. R. McMaster's — lack of proportionate strategic sense (20 December 2017)

 

 

Daniel Larison described the monkeys in the American wheelhouse (11 December 2017)

 

 

Is hypocrisy Western civilization's most distinguishing characteristic? — war criminal Slobodan Praljak departs with defiant dignity (30 November 2017)

 

 

General Nicholson's optimistic speech — about Afghanistan — Haven't we heard this thoroughly disproven nonsense before? (29 November 2017)

 

 

Is American leadership brain dead— or is it something else? (27 November 2017)

 

 

The U.S. House of Representatives — concealed its cowardice (regarding stopping American war crimes in Yemen) — underneath a layer of sanctimonious hypocrisy (15 November 2017)

 

 

President Trump shot off his mouth about the Bergdahl desertion sentence — again blatantly subverting his own chain of command (05 November 2017)

 

 

Scuttling the chance to stop — the US contribution to strategically purposeless war in Yemen(02 November 2017)

 

 

What do you do with an American public — that does not care about its perpetually senseless wars? (27 October 2017)

 

 

The United States Military Academy's moral and strategic cluelessness — was aptly illustrated with its recent Thayer Award — made to former President George W. Bush (25 October 2017)

 

 

Paul Craig Roberts' insightful point — about reflexively anti-Kapernick Americans — and the potential beginnings of World War III (29 September 2017)

 

 

U.S. Senators eagerly evade — the Constitution's assignment of Congressional war-making responsibility (25 September 2017)

 

 

A majority of Americans reportedly favor war with North Korea (if we don't get our way) — a combat where somebody else dies, of course (20 September 2017)

 

 

Two lines summarizing American foreign policy — an Afghani speaks (23 August 2017)

 

 

Blabbermouths in charge — bellicose President Trump and North Korea (10 Aug 2017)

 

 

The problem with American generals — captured by Lucian Truscott (03 August 2017)

 

 

With regard to military transgender policy — the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff essentially told the President that — our military colossus does not turn on Anyone's whimsically delivered dime (27 July 2017)

 

 

Speaking of idiotic military writing — consider the Army War College's strategic risk report: At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World (26 July 2017)

 

 

President Trump's de facto "kill Muslims" policy? (03 July 2017)

 

 

Seeing the forest — run amuck American Special Operations deployments (26 June 2017)

 

 

One reflection of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the American presidency – is delegation of the Commander in Chief's most basic responsibility (20 June 2017)

 

 

Lack of realistic honesty in American leadership — the unfortunately representative James Mattis (14 June 2017)

 

 

Qatar — Russia calls for peace and dialog — while the US arguably herds everyone toward more war (12 June 2017)

 

 

Mad Dog Mattis' representative line of American Macho — may explain why the US has not strategically won a major war during his lifetime (30 May 2017)

 

 

Gargantuan US-Saudi arms agreement — symbolizes American values (26 May 2017)

 

 

Andrew Bacevich's 24 questions — expose U.S. strategy hallucinations (19 May 2017)

 

 

"Mother of all bombs" drops in Afghanistan — purpose-defeating American disproportion on display again (18 April 2017)

 

 

Logic and Professor Theodore Postol appear to have demonstrated that — the Trump Administration probably lied — about who carried out the alleged Syrian gas attack (17 April 2017)

 

 

Russian Minister Lavrov's explanation — for why the United States has doomed itself (14 April 2017)

 

 

The Military Industrial Complex — bends American presidents to its will — President Trump's easy conversion to policy opposites (13 April 2017)

 

 

Did Secretary Mattis fall from grace on the Syrian question? (12 April 2017)

 

 

Creating circumstances for another world war? (11 April 2017)

 

 

You think Putin is bad? — President Trump's arguably righteous, but illegal Syrian missile strike(10 April 2017)

 

 

Cowboy up and lob a few missiles? (07 April 2017)

 

 

America's war-pounding chest thumpers — too cowardly to serve in the nonsensical wars they start (06 April 2017)

 

 

Military thoughtlessness in 4-star charge? (31 March 2017)

 

 

America's mantra — let's get worked up about pretend stuff — and ignore the things that really could bring us down (05 March 2017)

 

 

When propaganda bites our butts — President Trump's sometimes too big lies (01 March 2017)

 

 

President Trump said something true — and "not so innocent" America objected (06 February 2017)

 

 

Serial killing children — is this the American Way now? (01 February 2017)

 

 

After setting the Middle East afire — the United States now bans its refugees — How's that for courageous Americanism? (28 January 2017)

 

 

The belligerent nutcases and rank amateurs at the American helm — evidently want to start a 2-front nuclear war (16 January 2017)

 

 

Group thinking our mindless way to yet another war — this time with Russia (06 January 2017)

 

 

Masterfully done times two— Tsar Putin (31 December 2016)

 

 

The Obama Administration dithers again — while China rubs our nose in impotence (21 December 2016)

 

 

China seized an American water drone — an arguable act of war — and the American Mainstream kept yapping about relatively trivial Russian antics (19 December 2016)

 

 

The CIA's stunning — "Putin Did It" — propaganda (15 December 2016)

 

 

Marching to the "Russians Did It" anthem (12 December 2016)

 

 

The Senate just proved Colonel Andrew Bacevich's point — about stupidly conceived American foreign policy (07 December 2016)

 

 

A fake American embassy in Ghana survived 9 years despite ubiquitous U.S. snooping (06 November 2016)

 

 

A typically American foreign policy non sequitur in Afghanistan (26 October 2016)

 

 

US blew up Yemeni radar for no reason, it seems — with not a peep from the American public or its lame-brained media (18 October 2016)

 

 

American fingerprints on Saudi war crimes (11 October 2016)

 

 

President Putin's Syrian mistake? (30 September 2016)

 

 

Nut house conspiracy theories — Professor Hamid Dabashi makes an observation — about the 2016 United States election (26 September 2016)

 

 

Oakford and Salisbury explained — President Obama's foreign policy (25 September 2016)

 

 

A doubtfully intact American chain of command — Secretary of State John Kerry trying to pick up the pieces at the United Nations (22 September 2016)

 

 

U.S. mistakenly attacked Syrian troops — right after coming to a cease fire agreement — a comment regarding America's mixed messages (19 September 2016)

 

 

A deal for increasing American arms aid to Israel —and other lessons in short-sighted hypocrisy(14 September 2016)

 

 

Resilient people generally do not dwell on past trauma — a reflection on our reflexive commemorations of 9/11 (11 September 2016)

 

 

Perpetual war as background noise — half-assing against ISIS (06 September 2016)

 

 

Dazed Syrian boy — and the American war machine (20 August 2016)

 

 

Provoking China with THAAD in South Korea — a probably not so smart strategy (17 August 2016)

 

 

Does sacrifice in pursuit of strategic stupidity make sense? — Regarding Khizr Khan’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (02 August 2016)

 

 

US arms dealing and economy — rely on American conflict escalation (14 July 2014)

 

 

Propagandized drone strike data — President Obama’s Drone Murder Waltz (06 July 2016)

 

 

Memorial Day illusions (31 May 2016)

 

 

Is Command-Inspired Ground Confusion a War Crime? — The Kunduz MSF Hospital Bombing(10 May 2016)

 

 

How It Should Be when It Comes to Honor — Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith — Sued the Obama Administration over its Arguably Unauthorized War against ISIS (05 May 2016)

 

 

B-52s Bombing Iraq — Just for Old Times' Sake (27 April 2016)

 

 

Malik Jalal Wrote about the Drones Trying to Kill Him — His Words Should Awaken our Shame(14 April 2016)

 

 

Administrative Military Wisdom — from a 1930s Anti-Nazi German General (12 April 2016)

 

 

Daniel Larson’s Paragraphs about President Obama’s Libyan Intervention — Expose the Obama Doctrine’s Purpose-Lacking Immorality (11 April 2016)

 

 

Terror-Supporting Saudi Arabia — Is Using American Bombs and Military Coordination — to Kill Children in Yemen (08 April 2016)

 

 

Leave It to American Government to Make Absurdity Sound Reasonable — CIA-Backed Militia are Fighting Pentagon-Backed Militia in Syria — We Taxpayers Are Paying for It (02 April 2016)

 

 

Is it always Ethically Unjustified to Target Civilians? — Regarding Self-Serving Propaganda (28 March 2016)

 

 

You Don’t always Need a Strategy — but Sometimes You Do — President Obama’s Violent Vacuity in the Middle East (23 March 2016)

 

 

Wounded Warrior Project Executives Were Reportedly Using Money from Donations for Fun — How’s that for our Greed-Based Cultural System at Work? (11 March 2016)

 

 

A Book Review and Two Essays Combine — to Make a Point about — the Concealed Rise of American Fascism (09 March 2016)

 

 

The United States’ Cancerous Brainlessness Is apparently Going to Take a Second Bite out of Libya — Might this become a Religious Parable Down the Road? (29 January 2016)

 

 

Switzerland and Denmark Are Stealing War Refugees’ Property — How's that for a Greedy Europe that We Americans Are Saddled with Protecting? (27 January 2016)