Moral rot of America

There’s a monster on the loose / He’s got our heads into a noose / And he just sits there watching

Read the following two excerpts. The first deals with the moral rot at all levels in America today, the second with how Americans no longer trust their leaders and financial elites. I [...]

All politics is local: Al-Qa’eda and the Afghanistan War

As pressure to end the war builds in Washington, supporters of the war in Afghanistan will invariably return to their strongest argument: the threat of Al-Qa’eda. However, a reasonable understanding of the terrorist organization shows that even Al-Qa’eda is not enough to justify a bloody and expensive occupation. [...]