Talkin’ Cold War Blues by Jacob G. Hornberger February 18, 2016 Pity Mary Anastasia O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal. Last month, the Journal published an article by the well-known conservative columnist in which she was absolutely hyper about a U.S. Hellfire missile that had somehow ended up in Cuba, the island 90 miles away from American shores whose communist regime, according to conservatives, has long constituted a dagger ...
Removing the Blinders on Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger February 17, 2016 What a great thing for Jeb Bush to bring his brother George W. into his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. That’s because the former president’s participation in the race has brought his war on Iraq back into public discussion. The controversy enables Americans who have chosen to live lives of self-deception on Bush’s Iraq War to confront truth ...
Bush’s Invasions Made Us Less Safe by Jacob G. Hornberger February 16, 2016 According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times, the political fight between Donald Trump and the Bush family is becoming “one of the most vivid and powerful confrontations in the presidential campaign so far.” Jeb Bush says that his brother “kept us safe.” Trump, on the other hand, points out the obvious: ...
Good for Donald Trump for Exposing Bush’s Lies on Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger February 15, 2016 Notwithstanding Donald Trump’s fascist economic views, the war he wishes to expand against illegal immigrants, the bombing campaign that he desires to continue against iSIS, the drug war that he wants to continue waging, and the welfare state to which he remains committed, let’s give credit where credit is due. In the most recent Republican ...
Coming to Terms with Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger February 12, 2016 It seems that Iraq will continue to haunt the American people for the indefinite future. And it should. Including the Persian Gulf intervention, the 11 years of sanctions, the no-fly zones, the post-9/11 invasion and and occupation, and the post-occupation bombing, the U.S. government has killed, injured, and maimed several hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. There is also the ...
What’s Wrong with Inequality? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2016 Democratic Party presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have brought the issue of inequality of wealth to the forefront of national debate. That’s a good thing because it enables the American people to confront the issue and, hopefully, to recognize the deeply ugly and immoral aspects of the controversy. What difference does it make that some people are wealthier ...
