On the surface one might think that this is better than a direct rocket attack… but dig deeper and you realise that this was the worst possible cause of this tragedy. When I first heard the reports from the Pentagon (at all the usual places) that the attack on the base at Mosul was carried …
Category Archives: War and Peace
Ongoing US prison scandals
Over the past couple days more allegations have surfaced about the US using Abu-Graib style interview techniques in their prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo. Why is this such a problem when it’s the modus-operandi of most Middle Eastern nations? Well, to blunt… The United States of America is not a Middle Eastern nation. I find …
Cost of War
(JavaScript Error) need we say more? ya ok. Yes, this is a superficial way of determining whether the Iraq war should have happened. But, in our society were money rules everything, it is quite possibility the most valid and quite certainly the one people can identify with most easily. $US151 billion is more money than …