Entries Tagged as 'Politics'

The Afghanistan War: “The Taliban are ferocious fighters…if we don’t change our strategy, we will lose….”

Published on October 8th, 2009 by Malachi

The following is a comment I made to today’s NYTmes article about the war in Afghanistan:
“A brave Captain of the Marines that I know, spent 3 years in Afghanistan; came back early 2008; lucky to survive –several of his men died in what he and his men all agreed was \”a forgotten war\”. Forgotten [...]

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Americans (and others) are fighting and dying in Afghanistan: for what? We don’t really know what we want!

Published on September 22nd, 2009 by Malachi

The kids from the old community are all grown up now. Some I see or talk to or write to from time to time –they are mostly the ones who left “group-think” behind and struck out on their own (as I did myself these many years ago.) Others –for a variety of [...]

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Are there any adult loyal-opposition Republicans out there, who will do the right thing and stand up to Limbaugh-Hannity-Levin?

Published on September 14th, 2009 by Malachi

We already had this discussion earlier this year –Rush Limbaugh as de facto, de faulto, Leader of the Republican Party.
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If there were any adult Republicans who disagreed with his extreme rightwing views, you’d never know it.
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Why?
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Not a peep out of a one of them!
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