matt armstrong

About the Wikileaks footage of possible war crimes

Everybody who cares to see it has seen it.  I have four comments. Guns are not magic wands.  Our soldiers are not Shao Lin monks (either the real or TV versions). Anyone surprised by this knows little about war.  Esp war in foreign lands.  Esp counter-insurgencies. Anyone who supports the war and finds this abhorant …

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Only our amnesia makes reading the newspapers bearable

Summary: A sad aspect of our War on Terror (AKA the long mad war) is how it repeats lessons not learned from the Vietnam War.  Here’s an example from today’s news. Tom Engelhardt’s TomDispatch always goes to the top of my reading pile.  Tom publishes long, complex articles which compare to the average blog post like the …

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