Top Military Officer Admiral Mike Mullen on Thursday expressed outrage over the Wikileaks leak, saying the founder of the Wikileaks website, Julian Assange, may have blood on his hands already.
What is wrong with this picture? The Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the overseer of two acknowledged wars and many more secret ones, accusing someone of having blood on his/her hands? Does Admiral Mullen have anything to do with drone strikes, special op raids and the general execution of these wars? Who has more blood on his hands?
Think about it. Please!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
The Wikileaks "Debate"
Have you noticed how the real importance and the content of Wikileaks' release of the Afghanistan documents has been woefully ignored. What is being 'debated?' "Military orders have been broken." " We are giving the enemy all the information to defeat us with ..." The documents do not give an accurate, complete picture ..." "Who is going to go after Asage?" "They are destroying our good relationships with our allies ..." "The data are from the past ..."
Hold on a minute, please! To me this all sounds like bogus, if I want to be kind in my choice of words. We are in a brutal war, have been for eight years or so, progress has been mostly zero and the cost of it is bankrupting our country. These leaked documents are giving us an insight into how this war is fought and how it has been going. "Nothing new" as the commentators said, but also "same, same" which nobody said, at least not in the MSM. Both of these comments are devastating. Nothing new and the fact that the same things are still going on are, for me at least, a terrible judgment of how things are going over there. Who has been writing about that? Go look!
The arguments cited above are actual quotes from newscasts spoken by highly paid 'experts' and commentators. Think about every one of them. Apply Common Sense. What are you left with? Empty dribble, if you ask me. If information like this, several years old, is threatening our National Security or the 'Safety of our troops' then we are in bad shape, and our enemies are in even worse shape. So we should have 'won' a long time ago. But we are nowhere near a 'win.' We hear the same old mantras from our generals, special envopys and ambassadors. Those mantras, unfortunately, have nothing in common with the real picture of what's going on on the ground, as they say. It does not take a lot of intelligence to figure that out, without the help of dull and 'not-saying-anything' commentators.
I am very tired of expert gurus on the major networks and in newspapers seriously spouting 'opinions' which say absolutely nothing other than what anybody who read the news could have said. Go figure. And stay with your common sense, regardless of what they are telling you or not telling you.
Hold on a minute, please! To me this all sounds like bogus, if I want to be kind in my choice of words. We are in a brutal war, have been for eight years or so, progress has been mostly zero and the cost of it is bankrupting our country. These leaked documents are giving us an insight into how this war is fought and how it has been going. "Nothing new" as the commentators said, but also "same, same" which nobody said, at least not in the MSM. Both of these comments are devastating. Nothing new and the fact that the same things are still going on are, for me at least, a terrible judgment of how things are going over there. Who has been writing about that? Go look!
The arguments cited above are actual quotes from newscasts spoken by highly paid 'experts' and commentators. Think about every one of them. Apply Common Sense. What are you left with? Empty dribble, if you ask me. If information like this, several years old, is threatening our National Security or the 'Safety of our troops' then we are in bad shape, and our enemies are in even worse shape. So we should have 'won' a long time ago. But we are nowhere near a 'win.' We hear the same old mantras from our generals, special envopys and ambassadors. Those mantras, unfortunately, have nothing in common with the real picture of what's going on on the ground, as they say. It does not take a lot of intelligence to figure that out, without the help of dull and 'not-saying-anything' commentators.
I am very tired of expert gurus on the major networks and in newspapers seriously spouting 'opinions' which say absolutely nothing other than what anybody who read the news could have said. Go figure. And stay with your common sense, regardless of what they are telling you or not telling you.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Mighty Nations Meet and Promise ...
and do not deliver on their promises! The recent Meetings of the G20 and G8 in Canada cost one billion US Dollars for 1 1/2 days. That is exactly the shortfall on the promises made to Africa and other developinng nations elsewhere at the 2005 G8 summit in Scotland. Furthermore the Toronto meetings have not produced any striking results ... horse sense says: Can't we do better? Read the whole article at
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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