Tag Results: War

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Dead Children: Excuses, Lies, and Inaction

The situation in Lebanon is the result of many years of unconditional support for Israel, and over $42 million dollars in pro-Israel PAC money contributed to our Congressmen. It’s time to do something about this.

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Is there a problem with this?

I’m not naïve, and I know war is a low-down dirty business and not everything that takes place is going to be on the up-and-up. However, this situation taken as a whole is not acceptable by any measure.

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How many more memorials?

“The tragedy was that they were asked to fight and die for a cause that their country was unwilling to win.”
 
— Ronald Reagan

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Commander-in-Chief?

Few of our Presidents in recent years have been military men. This author makes a good argument that it may be time for a change in the concept of President as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces as granted by the U.S. Constitution.

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You want it?
Pay for it.

It takes balls to ask tapped out Americans to pay for the political process so they can have their pockets picked by Government and Big Business one more time …

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A Black Anniversary

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
 
— James Madison, Political Observations, 1795

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Eisenhower, what if …

No one can deny Ike’s place in history; he was a great military leader, a patriot, and a great president. However, it’s interesting to speculate what might have been had he not been elected President.