Posts Tagged ‘military’
Greenwald on the Reality of War
07Apr10
Alright, one more before I go to bed. This one on the Wikileaks controversy. I’ll let Glenn Greenwald do the talking, with the caveat that this is not unique to the U.S. military–it’s worth keeping in mind that we still have some sense of the devastation of civilian casualty, whereas so many other countries and […]
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Tags: counterinsurgency, glenn greenwald, greenwald, Iraq, military, reuters, war, wikileaks
Ok, the Actual Quote of the Day
20Aug08
The more likely explanation of what Bush and Rice are up to is that they don’t know what to do. Not just in Georgia but around the world, they are floundering. Bush suddenly turns pragmatic diplomat with the North Koreans (though only after they successfully test an atomic bomb), but he remains ideologically opposed to […]
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Tags: bush, Fred Kaplan, georgia, medvedev, military, putin, russia, slate, world war III