America’s Most Dangerous Man — Barack Obama?

Media is a Plural by Rory O'Connor | Jul. 26, 2010 (Opinion)

(Blog Post) Why are we still in Afghanistan?

This week’s release by WikiLeaks.org of a massive archive of 92,000 previously secret U.S. military documents – a new generation’s Pentagon Papers – puts the lie once again to the tired refrain that the war in/on Afghanistan bears little resemblance to that in/on Vietnam. Instead, despite surface differences, the two unpopular conflicts possess many obvious and frightening similarities. Full Story »

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 by Randy Morrow - Jul. 26, 2010

Among them are the facts that, once again, America’s political and military elite is backing a corrupt, ineffective and highly unpopular puppet regime in a far-off, unnecessary and costly war – all the while issuing rosy public assessments that severely conflict with the private, far more dire internal ones. Once again, embarrassed government officials are blaming the messenger – this time Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks’ version of Daniel Ellsberg – when that message hits the front pages. And once again, instead of admitting mistakes and failures, the American President Barack Hussein Obama (like the American President Lyndon Baines Johnson before him) is trying to “defend his war strategy” and “reassert control over the public debate” on an unwinnable war.

Mr. O’Connor draws parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan via the Wikileaks documents, and makes related observations about the political atmosphere.

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