Contorting The Troops
Blood from a turnip—that’s what the President and Pentagon want, and they’ll squeeze as hard as they can to get it. Active-duty soldiers will now serve fifteen-month tours in Iraq, rather than twelve months at a time, “effective immediately.”
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called the change “a difficult and necessary interim step” and said [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
Demetri Martin performs…sort of.
But Everything looks Like a Nail
A think tank stumbles upon what we already knew:
The US-led and British-backed war on terror is only fuelling more violence by focusing on military solutions rather than on root causes, a think tank warned Wednesday.
“The ‘war on terror’ is failing and actually increasing the likelihood of more terrorist attacks,” the Oxford Research Group said in [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Dwell I but in the suburbs of your good
pleasure?” —Julius Caesar, 2.1.285-86
