Author: Cogitator

Captain Ian Fishback did the unthinkable. At least in the eyes of some of the military brass. Fishback took his military oath seriously. He put fulfilling that oath above any personal benefit he might receive through cutting...

Hugh Thompson recently died. LIke Robert Stethem, Thompson was another American military hero. He did what was right and paid a heavy price throughout his life for doing so. Despite a U.S. Military Academy standard of ethics far...

 It’s going to be a focus on veterans this week, looking at little-noticed or forgotten people and events that deserve frontpage coverage anew. The following Washington Post editorial brought back memories about a...

 It’s fashionable for political bloggers to lambaste the mainstream media (MM) for this and that. I’ve done it myself. But I truly believe it is ‘spot on’ to criticize the vast majority of the MM for...

My oh my. What is the United States to do in Iraq? There are no easy answers, of course, mostly because of the this: the combination of foolhardy ignorance of and malignant indifference to reality by the Bush Administration from...