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Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA).
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 17, 2008 For Bush and McCain, Iraqis are merely "ropes for American dirty laundry"
Like the quislings in the Green Zone that the Bush administration installed via so-called "democratic elections," the Awakening forces are coming to be seen as mere "ropes for American dirty laundry." Not just the dirty laundry of Bush's sordid invasion and McCain's myopic cheerleading, but also the dirty laundry of American Exceptionalism.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 8, 2008 Is the United States of America Addicted to War?
Based upon both the number of wars involving America, as well as the number of its unnecessary wars, one must ask whether America is addicted to war.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 21, 2008 Barack in Iraq
Having foolishly raised expectations to justify their invasion of Iraq, Bush and McCain have their reputations at stake. Which is why they cannot define success there as Barack Obama has defined it and why they have neither a strategy for success nor strategy for leaving Iraq. All they have is the surge (a mere tactic) and hope for a miracle.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 12, 2008 Addressing America's "Deeper Malignancies"
According to Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's goal after September 11 was to address the deeper malignancies of the Middle East. Given America's illegal; immoral invasion of Iraq, a more pressing question is: "When will the rest of the world unite to "address the deeper malignancies" of the United States?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Obama's Populism versus McCain's Free Trade
Even before the ethics questions just raised by the New York Times, John McCain was hardly the presidential candidate to roll back widespread corporate socialism.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 5, 2008 America's Occupation Trumps the "Surge" and Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Manual
As Professor Truman Cross has concluded: It is a foolish and disastrous assumption that the government of the United States should learn how to fight anti-colonial wars against peoples who will keep fighting until the Americans and all other foreigners are gone--and then get down to the business of fighting for whatever territory is up for grabs.
SHARE Sunday, August 26, 2007 Iraq, Iran and the Moral Rot Infecting the Soul of America
Walter Lippmann said it best: "No moral code, as such, will enable [a person] to know whether he is exercising his moral faculties on a real and an important event. For effective virture, as socrates pointed out long ago, is knowledge; and a code of right and wrong must await upon a perception of the true and false."
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, June 30, 2008 Barack Obama: Don't go "Wobbly" on Iraq!
Recent flip-flops by Barack Obama bring into question his campaign pledge to "immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq ...and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months" of his inaugeration. Obama supporters need to assure that he doesn't go wobbly on that pledge.