Wars have generally been waged by countries against countries, or levied against a country’s leader, but much like Huntington’s thesis in his book, Clash of Civilisations, the current wars in the Middle […]
Canada, the US and Schadenfreude
The reaction by Obama and Harper to the recent shooting in Canada struck me as Schadenfreude. For both, the shooting served to justify their intervention in the Middle East and Obama can […]
The US Department of War
The US Department of War, a.k.a. The War Office or The War Department, existed officially from 1789 until 1947 and was headed by a Secretary of War. It was then renamed the […]
American Paranoia and the March to War
US foreign policy is frequently driven by both its citizen’s irrational paranoia, and their belief that American lives are somehow sacrosanct, inviolable. That belief, in turn, is promoted by equally irrational press […]
Humpty Dumpty Iraq
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again Much like the rhyme “Humpty Dumpty”, […]
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