Category: long story short

Reuters, 4/23/04 [A] U.S. general said on Thursday the rebels had “days not weeks” to turn in their heavy weapons…. Lieutenant-General James Conway, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force…said the weaponry handed over so far was unusable “junk.” Complete article This is totally outrageous. This is no time to be cutting corners on vital…

“Early Thursday, Marines launched a major assault on the village of Karma….” Complete article.

The Bush administration came into office with a grievance in foreign affairs: We’re not getting “ours.” We are acknowledged to be the world’s only superpower. So where are the fruits of arrogance, avarice, and venality to which we are now so abundantly entitled? Hence, unilateralism and preemption–and a new style of swift, lean, cost-effective, technologized,…

A spokesman for the Sunni Muslim assembly [said] the situation regarding the Italian hostages, who were armed when they were abducted, was different to those of the Japanese and other nationals who had been released…. “They are trained escorts of the coalition led by the Americans. In truth they are like soldiers, the same as…

The latest assassination of a Hamas leader, combined with Sharon’s legal troubles and the real possibility that he may soon be forced to step down, has me wondering if he’s getting in a few last hits before leaving office.

Oft disturbing conversation on Kos today about alleged attrocities by US forces, here. Two posters made a connected point worth reflecting on this week — that Tim McVeigh and DC sniper John Muhammad were both vets of the first Persian Gulf war. And that today’s little seen, presumably unfilmed violence in Fallujah has the potential…