Reality Check: AFGHANISTAN – THE BIG FAIL James Campion August 25, 2021 Columns, Reality Check Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan. Italian proverb Man, I have written a whole lot about Afghanistan over two decades. Not as much as Iraq, but a lot. It has been a long, strange trip, over thr... Read More...
REALITY CHECK — TRUMP POLICE STATE James Campion July 29, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Reality Check The Final Vestige of a Fascist Game Show Host President The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I'm from the government and I'm here to help.’ &nb... Read More...
Reality Check: Welcome (Back) To The Jungle James Campion June 17, 2015 Columns It is not possible to know at this time the precise scope or the duration of the deployments of U.S. Armed Forces necessary to counter terrorist threats to the United States. – Excerpt from a letter accompanyi... Read More...
Between & Beyond: Rumors Of War Michael Lutomski May 7, 2014 Columns There are rumblings of war on the wind. It’s Russia’s turn to be global boogeyman again, and I’m curious to see how this unfolds. I shy away from conspiracy theories these days. In the end, any theory of this k... Read More...
Deleted Scenes: The War Boner JJ Koczan March 5, 2014 Columns Notice that lump in the dialectic’s pants this week? Yeah, that’s the war boner. It pokes up every time there’s a chance World War III might break out. I’m pretty sure with this Russia/Crimea thing, CNN’s war b... Read More...
Between & Beyond: A Look Back/Ahead Michael Lutomski February 12, 2014 Columns It was cold. It was frightening. I had always found Manhattan at least a little frightening and the bus ride in had me plenty anxious. It was a very strange time for me, for everyone. It was February of 2003, a... Read More...
Deleted Scenes: War Comes Home JJ Koczan December 21, 2011 Columns 1 This past weekend, I watched as the last U.S. troops were reported to be leaving Iraq. They left under cover of night, in a convoy of military trucks headed across the border into Kuwait, and though going forwa... Read More...
Deleted Scenes: Is 2011 The New 1968? JJ Koczan March 30, 2011 Columns 1 There are few creatures currently walking the earth more loathsome than the self-inflated Baby Boomer. You know the type: Completely blind to the fact that they’ve become their parents and the only difference i... Read More...
Reality Check: The Ides Of Libya James Campion March 30, 2011 Columns How To Take An Arab Sucker Punch Think not I am what I appear. - Lord Byron This thing in Libya, the “humanitarian effort”—or whatever the strategic bombing of a sovereign nation embroiled in civil war... Read More...
The Freak Show: The Politics Of Libya Hal B. Selzer March 30, 2011 Columns There’s much ammunition (no pun intended) on both sides of the debate over getting involved in Libya, whether it be taking a lead role in creating a no-fly zone or just participating with an international coali... Read More...
