It is a bit academic to discuss if it was criminal. Nobody will make a trial of Colin Powell or either of the Bushes. But somehow people in Iraq are in vehement disagreement whether to hate us or to detest us. A few professed no hard feeling and tried to con us (like Chalabi). Nobody likes us. Who knows, perhaps an honorable conduct during wars could help…

A revolutionary idea: conquer moral high ground by moral conduct — astonished adversaries would be stunned.

Sadly, No!

According to the BBC –
Iraqi army starts retreat from Kuwait – February 26, 1991.
Air attacks on the Basra Road – night of February 26/7, 1991.
Unilateral ceasefire declared by coalition – February 27, 1991.
Coalition ceasefire comes into effect – 0400 GMT, February 28, 1991.
Final ceasefire agreement signed – April 6, 1991.

And some people wonder why I’m an anarchist….

Hell, America always struck me as an ‘adolescent’ country. I used to think that if you upscaled the behaviour of a selfish sulky preteen that had yet to get used to sharing the world with other people to the size of half a continent, it would look like that. Israel is like a kid that suffered child abuse and grew up to become an abuser.

i’m British, but I don’t have an appropriate analogy for my country, because I’m not so hot on my own politics. Maybe a dead horse?

I googled LZ Albany, about two hours ago. I’d heard of Ia Drang before, but only in the most general of terms. Right now I’m thinking that the lack of specifics was yet another example of how sheltered I’ve been.

I know I can be brave when I need to be (like, for someone else’s sake) but sitting here, just me and the computer, I’m not. I’m shaking; I’m crying a little.

I’m just going to go lie down now, and stare at the ceiling feeling inadequate.
Talk to ya tomorrow. Oh, and thank you.

Hiway of death. Know what that always reminds me of? In a kind of a soul-shivering mind-recoiling way, because to imagine what the horror of death visited upon you on an industrial scale and dying with the agony of helplesness. The smell of terror. And the sound of begging for another minute. That would be the story of LZ Albany. If you don’t know the story, look it up.

C’mon, you guys. War is never gonna get gentle or clean. Stand against war, and try to prevent your government from using it’s terrifying capability from starting more wars. I won’t say it’s the moral path, but I will ask how a thoughtful, moral person could be “Pro war”?

mikey

Israel good. Israel always good.Israel never bad.

You anti-semite!

Israel is ‘little brother’, too: it’s an adolescent country that still has childish hissy-fits, aided by large amounts of US-made and US-paid munitions. Fratboy justice.