I recently was around someone who used the term “war on terror”. I almost started ranting, but decided to pause and think about why that term bugs me so much. Sometimes it’s better to think before you speak.
I was reminded of it again when I heard a talk by Thomas Barnett from the [...]
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The “war on terror”
February 21st, 2008 ·
Tags: Inspirations · Politics
Bitching about the war
February 7th, 2008 ·
There have been a lot of complaints about Hillary having voted for funding the war in Iraq, and I’m sure that she regrets that decision just as those who voted for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution regretted it later. It’s easy to forget but at the time, the Bush administration was spreading lies about [...]
Tags: Politics
Papers, please?
January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Before you view this blog posting, perhaps I should be asking for your papers. It seems that Rudy wants me to.
Tags: Politics
Religion is evil
March 18th, 2007 ·
Some people are shocked when they hear me say this. That’s because they don’t like to have something they believe in called evil. When I say that religion is evil, I don’t mean that religion has no value whatsoever. I mean that the net world effect from religion is to promote evil. [...]
The war on terror
March 18th, 2007 ·
There is no better example of crap than the current administration calling the war in Iraq the “war on terror”.
It’s a great tragedy that the president was able to mislead the American public into thinking that mounting a military offensive to oust Saddam Hussein from power would result in a world safe from terror. [...]
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