Should I be bothered by the fact that more than two years on, Marines still can’t get armor on their vehicles, when so much additional, non-US blood has been spilled?
For a view from Company E, see Michael Moss’s article in the NY Times.
The photo is by Capt. Kelly Royer, who "took photos of [...]
Archive for April, 2005
“Support our troops”
Posted in BushRovers on April 25, 2005 | Comments Off
Dr. Bolton & Mr. Bolton
Posted in BushRovers on April 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
In a couple of recent posts (Tweedledee & Tweedledumb 1 & 2) I said that there were some questions that the Bolton nomination (a brand-new one at the time) impose on the left:
One is to ask what it tells us
about BushRover-World that this unilateralist extremism is necessary
to them. Another is to ask what we need [...]
Not a conundrum, just a mess
Posted in Foreign policy leftists on April 5, 2005 | Comments Off
Democracy
Arsenal is a relatively new blog which describes itself as
"devoted to opinion, commentary and sparring on U.S. foreign
policy and global affairs". The commentary I have read so far, from at least two
of its five contributors, has the flavor of policy wonkdom (as
opposed to academic wonkdom or practical party politics).
Suzanne Nossel has a post
today that I [...]
Pope smokes dope
Posted in Far Right Far Out on April 3, 2005 | Comments Off
I will admit that I was raised in an anti-Catholic household, for all that I lived in a heavily Catholic town and never saw my parents behave in any kind of bigotted way to any individual face-to-face. In my father, the attitude was partly a remnant of anti-Irish UK views inherited perhaps from his Scottish [...]
look out where yr going.
Posted in poetry on April 1, 2005 | Comments Off
Robert Creeley has died. He lived a long life, including three marriages, eight children, over 60 books, and countless lively connections with a wide population of the leading american practitioners of the art. He stretched, stylistically, from Pound and especially Williams, to the Beats and beyond. His sense of poetry as a function of living [...]
