Our Black Sea Navy
Russia and the US are engaged in an arms-length naval confrontation in the Black Sea, and not just because of the recent war in Georgia. For some time, the US has been ratcheting up it's Black Sea...
View ArticleCongress: Stop the Bush's Georgia Naval Mission!
The US navy is involved in a purported humanitarian mission in Georgia.There is good evidence (see below the fold) that the navy cannot accomplish an effective humanitarian mission, especially given...
View ArticleArar, Abducted and Tortured, Might Still Get Justice
Yesterday, the New York Times published an editorial ("The Courts and Mr. Arar", August 31, 2008) congratulating the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for again taking up the case...
View ArticleThey're Doing It Again!
The Washington Port, among others, is in the midst of another hyper-nationalistic media frenzy.Last time, it was about Iran. Before that, it was Iraq. This time, it's Russia.Russia is now an axis of...
View ArticleVice President's "Combative Mood" Puts the Navy At Risk
"In combative mood the US Vice-President stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the besieged Georgian President." That's how the TimesOnLine is describing Cheney's stop in the Georgian capital...
View ArticleThank You, Germany
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that Germany will oppose immediate entry of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO's Membership Action Plan (MAP), due to be considered in NATO summit talks in...
View ArticlePick One: NATO Expansion or European Stability
NATO held a conference in Estonia last week to deal with the issue of bringing Ukraine into the alliance.NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said at the talks "that Ukraine should press ahead...
View ArticleUS to NATO: Hurry (Before It's Too Late)!
Secretary of Defense Gates and Secretary of State Rice have been dispatched to Europe to urge admission of Ukraine and Georgia to NATO before it's too late - before, that is, Obama takes office and has...
View ArticleNATO Expansion Is Delayed. Thanks to Europe.
Last week, NATO ministers of the 'old Europe' refused to accede to US demands to quickly bring Ukraine and Georgia into the Alliance. NATO won't revisit the decision until the next NATO summit in...
View ArticleYour Investment in the Republic of Georgia
Remember the humanitarian aid package declared by the current US administration in the wake of the August, 2008 war between Russia and Georgia? Today, the United States is pledging to make available $1...
View ArticleTwo Simple Steps Toward Justice for Arar
The InjusticeIn 2002 US officials conspired to send Canadian citizen Maher Arar off to Syria where they knew he would be tortured as a terrorist suspect. Arar survived the torture, and after Syria...
View ArticleThis Could Be Important
Today the New York Times ran an editorial: A prosecutor should be appointed to consider criminal charges against top officials at the Pentagon and others involved in planning the abuse. Yes, I know:...
View ArticleThis Was Not A joke
Don't wait for the punchline, because there isn't one: In my 44 years of wearing this uniform, I have never seen the American public and our military as bonded in understanding, purpose, and spirit as...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to those Republicans?
The who didn't run last year, who got out of the U.S. Congress last year, while the getting was good? I've been thinking that most of them might have had big plans, but maybe not:"It’s the land of...
View ArticleAn Easy Fix for Eric Holder
One of the many things the new Attorney General should consider doing is an easy one for him: order the Department of Justice (DoJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to finally implement the thorough...
View ArticleGet Serious
Stop pretending that we can continue to consume the things we do at the rate we do, forever.Give up the notion that we have a 'national mission' which trumps other countries' rights.Get over the idea...
View ArticleThe U.S. is Just Another Country
One thing that the current debate on U.S. torture policy proves is that the U.S. is just another country.Tom Friedman proves it when, along with virtually the entirety of the country's political,...
View ArticleHarold E. Fischer Jr. Dies at 83; Tortured by Chinese in 1950's
There's very little that needs to be said about this.Thanks to the New York Times, we know that Harold E. Fischer Jr., a Korean War ace captured by the Chinese, has died at the age of 83.In an...
View ArticleWhy Does the U.S. Want to Deploy an Unworkable Missile System in Europe?
The European missile defense system will provide no useful capabilities for defending either the continental United States or Europe against ballistic missile attack. That's what the East-West...
View ArticleWere Those the Pictures?
Last week, there was quite a bit of comment about the Obama administration's flip-flop on release of the photos which the ACLU wanted released and which the London Daily Telegraph quoted General Taguba...
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