blog editor's remarks: I was disappointed and distressed to note in the speech given just hours ago by Pres. Obama that he castigated the Palestinians and Hamas for sending rockets into Israel. What he did not say (and should have) is that the Israelis have acted with extreme brutality, killing several thousand Palestinians including small children, using phosphorus bombs and claymore mines. He was absolutely mute about the way the Israelis have herded the Palestinian population into a tiny area, sealing them in and preventing vital supplies from reaching them. The rockets were just an ineffectual way of fighting back. After all Hamas was democratically elected, but Israel and the U.S. harassed this legitimate from the start. So much for the B.S. that America supports democratic governments. In the past the U.S. has supported many cruel dictators, including Saddam Hussein.
It seems to me, as I suspected before, that Pres. Obama, intelligent and likeable though he is......a brilliant orator with a magnetic personality, is just another of the long line of American presidents continuing wars of profit for the big corporations. This one has more pizzaz, so he will be able to promise a lot but in the end do very little to bring peace to the world. I would be so happy if I am proven wrong. (Ric)
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In the fourth of his extraordinary films about what life is really like for the US military in Afghanistan John D McHugh talks to Charlie company as they attempt to follow the often contradictory instructions laid out in the Counterinsurgency Field Manual
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