Category Archives: Iraq war

The media gets lost in the fog of war again

Posted on October 21, 2023 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit and I were re-reading a New York Times story posted shortly after the October 17 Gaza hospital explosion that killed scores, or perhaps hundreds, of civilians. The question of who’s responsible for the explosion is still up in … Continue reading →

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20 years since Shock and Awe? ‘Good God, y’all!’

Posted on March 26, 2023 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit examined the playlist of protest songs I compiled to acknowledge the 20th anniversary of the Second Persian Gulf War. He played “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and started laughing. “That song came out in 1971, during the Vietnam War,” … Continue reading →

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The past is never past, the news hardly ever new

Posted on September 8, 2021 by oddmanout215

We were still trying to clean up after Hurricane Ida knocked down power lines and flooded our shacks last week as it swept through the Tinicum swamp. Meanwhile, Covid-19 raged on and random bad news dominated a high-pressure zone that … Continue reading →

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OK, I give up — why were we in Afghanistan?

Posted on August 17, 2021 by oddmanout215

America’s 20-year war and nation-building experiment in Afghanistan came to a predictably bad end over the weekend. Since then, foreign policy “experts” have been speculating what went wrong, but few are admitting the effort was a colossal mistake from the … Continue reading →

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The anti-Bernie blitzkrieg

Posted on February 26, 2020 by oddmanout215

https://twitter.com/NicholasIvanoff/status/1231781040211013632 We were talking about last night’s so-called debate, which was like last week’s debate but even nastier. A bunch of wrinkled old hustlers (except for young hustler Pete Buttigieg) shouting each other down, desperate to sell themselves in South … Continue reading →

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If I lived in Iran, I’d hate us too

Posted on January 14, 2020 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit wanted to know why Iran hates America, the beacon of democracy and the land of opportunity. “Just because,” I told him. Iran hates us just because we overthrew its democratically elected prime minister and propped up the corrupt … Continue reading →

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Happy Solstice + 6. (There’s light up ahead.)

Posted on December 27, 2019 by oddmanout215

We were on the highway again, squinting at the sun as it flatlined at midday on the shortest day of the year. “Looks like the sun is just up the road,” Swamp Rabbit said. “Why don’t you crash into it … Continue reading →

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Out with the old knave, in with the new

Posted on September 13, 2019 by oddmanout215

“John Bolton’s ouster makes the world safer,” according to a headline in The Nation, but the analysis that followed was unpersuasive. Yes, the mustachioed loony is gone but not his boss, who has launched a misguided trade war against China, … Continue reading →

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Fool me once… OK, now fool me again

Posted on May 9, 2018 by oddmanout215

The race is on. In one lane we have Donald Trump using false evidence from Benjamin Netanyahu as an excuse to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal, a first step in drumming up support for another Mideast war. In the other, … Continue reading →

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From Iraq to Trumpland

Posted on March 19, 2018 by oddmanout215

Tom Engelhardt marks the 15th anniversary of the start of a war that seems more disastrous with each passing year: In an act of pure wizardry, bin Laden drew out of Bush, Cheney, and company their deepest geopolitical fantasies about … Continue reading →

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