Despite all the comments of the apologists, I can’t think of one single good reason to have the terrorist trials in NYC. First, they are people who have declared war on America, not criminals. As combatants, if they are going to be tried, it...
Long-time CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite has died. I’m sure he loved America; he certainly was well known. I trust that he will rest in peace. br /However, Walt was no friend of the US military. I’m a Vietnam vet. The North Vietnamese...
One of the things the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has done is to cause American military personnel to work outside their normal military specialty. An example is the Air Force has sought and found airmen to volunteer for Security Forces, or SECFOR...
I fear, with the new administration’s people-to-people (or, let’s talk with everyone) approach to things international (like war), we have forgotten a basic definition that I learned many years ago at West Point; the objective of warfare is to...
Michigan’s Senator Carl Levin is the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He recently stated that his committee released its report on its investigation into the treatment of detainees in US custody earlier this week. The report, which was...
All the talk shows are going on about the election, Obama vs McCain. However, they’ve ignored the most revelent thing to happen in decades–Russian agression. Russia not only invaded the country of Georgia and is not living up to thier...
American citizens don’t pick the wars in which we fight. Our freely elected leaders, responding to circumstances, get us involved in wars. We go (or should go) to war as a nation. We are at war against an enemy who, just as Hitler did in the...