Clear Loop

This is not cutting edge tech
But the blood continues to flow
Clearly we are in a loop
We have not fully realized
The lengths to which
These loop gurus will go
Clearly we are in a loop
Go guru, go
Clearly we are
Loop guru
Clear
Loop
Clear
Loop

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Credits: Collage with no green in it by Jay Larsen

Poetry with no green in it by Jay Larsen

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Permanent War Economy

Every year, every one of our Congressmen and Senators should be forced to distribute a pie chart displaying how much of the current budget is going to the Pentagon for "defence".
Every year it has been more than 50%.
I don't think most Americans know that half their tax money goes to war spending. That it always has. And that it always will.
I for one, have some different priorities, and I am sure you do too. If I spent half our family budget on guns and ammo, I would quickly be divorced. Yet we stay married to our Military Industrial Complex as if this kind of spending is okay. Not only is it a waste of resources, it is immoral.

Think You Can Win a War in Afghanistan?

Old Soldiers know better

I believed as sincerely as American officers do now that we were fighting there to help make our country safer. After the war, as a politician, I could see this war had been pointless.
- Retired Russian Gen. Pavel Grachev, who later became defense minister, recently interviewed about the parallels he sees betweent the Soviet war in Afghanistan and current U.S. and NATO involvement there. Grachev also advised: Post soldiers to guard road projects and irrigation systems, and send in an army of engineers, doctors, mining experts, and construction advisers. According to him, pouring billions of dollars into infrastructure would be a lot more productive than firefights in far-flung villages. (Source: McClatchy)

The PreGame Show Has Begun

Fox News must have their talking points memo from the White House, because they are acting like war with Iran is a done deal. Just like they did with Iraq in 2002 and 2003.

Some people, like Ray McGovern, say that Rove and Snow are bailing out because they lost the argument about Iran to Dick Cheney.

We cannot afford another war in the Middle East.