Did Bush authorize the Pakistani’s to airlift Bin Laden out of the country? Well maybe not Bin Laden, but certainly some of his associates seem to have gotten out that way. American intelligence officials and high-ranking military officers said that Pakistanis were indeed flown to safety, in a series of nighttime airlifts that were approved [...]
A recent NY Times article says this: “In Afghanistan, the biggest lesson we learned in our tactical information operations — the radio and TV broadcasts — was the importance in explaining, `Why are we here?’ ” a senior American military officer said. “The majority of Afghanis did not know that Sept. 11 occurred. They didn’t [...]
There’s so much chest-thumping, so many alarums about Iraqi menace, that I sometimes feel that the only patriotic thing to do is to invade Iraq and plow salt into its soil. So it’s useful to conjure a conservative war hero like Dwight Eisenhower and consider what he would do if he were president today. After [...]
In recent days, an Independent on Sunday investigation reveals, they have stepped up attacks on missile sites near Basra which could threaten the military build-up in Kuwait and the Gulf. The raids are being carried out by aircraft patrolling the “no-fly” zones in northern and southern Iraq, established by the victors after the first Gulf [...]
In case you are not up to date on this, on March 3, 2003, hundreds of performances of Aristophanes’ bawdy comedy will be presented as a “worldwide act of theatrical dissent.” The Lysistrata Project was the brain child of a few theater people in NYC, but has grown beyond the wildest dreams of its initiators [...]
Here in the United States, an unsexy virus not much associated with evil or terrorism — influenza — claims between 10,000 and 20,000 lives per year; smallpox hasn’t taken a life since the 1970s. From the American Prospect online.
The authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala say they have cleared a wildlife sanctuary which was illegally occupied by more than 1,000 tribal people. In the LINK.
It’s not that the Bush administration is always stingy. In fact, right now it is offering handouts right and left. Most notably, it has offered the Turkish government $26 billion in grants and loans if it ignores popular opposition and supports the war. …So how much money for Afghan reconstruction did the administration put in [...]