“With the possible exception of Israel, the United States is the only developed and democratic nation in which a belief in war’s efficacy continues to enjoy widespread acceptance. Others, the … [Keep reading >>]
In the Armed Forces Journal no less…
How military leaders have let us down
By LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and … [Keep reading >>]
All who have read about, and certainly those who experienced, World War II and Germany’s becoming the vicious murderer of its own people, the invader of bordering countries and a … [Keep reading >>]
Christopher de Bellaigue in the New York Review of Books reminds us of the truth of the now ended invasion of Iraq:
The world has changed a great deal since the US … [Keep reading >>]
Ingrid Bergman looks her fabled, youthful best and Charles Boyer dark and dashing as her handsome, older lover in The Arch of Triumph a forgotten minor gem of WW II … [Keep reading >>]
Looking back at horrible events in history too often become a kind of horror-porn — explicit images, intended to claw at our deepest emotions but without much reason to go … [Keep reading >>]
I was propelled into a reading and movie watching frenzy to make up for my sketchy knowledge of World War One after reading To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild. … [Keep reading >>]
You know we’re about at the point where the explosions going off in our heads at each days news is beginning to to change from warnings and prompts to action … [Keep reading >>]
Alhaam, a movie shot in Iraq in 2004 — during the full catastrophe of the US invasion and related Iraqi insurgencies– is the rawest, hardest to watch movie of war … [Keep reading >>]
As local author Adam Hochschild makes the rounds with his latest, amazing book, To End All Wars [following King Leopold's Ghost, and Bury the Chains, both wonderful and heart-teaching books] … [Keep reading >>]
Mark Fiore has Obama in his sights this week — less lethally than Obama has others in his… … [Keep reading >>]
Jack Healy of the NY Times, along with Yasir Ghazi and Duraid Adnan, provided a short look at young artists in Iraq, after the horrors of Saddam and the invasion/occupation … [Keep reading >>]
