by Fred Reed
A tale of woe, though not very woeful, but I believe in straining for an effect: After decades of inciting insurrection, sedition, and the corruption of youth, thus maintaining journalistic tradition, I went into retirement, at least until as such measures as might improve my vision had worked any magic they might. In these years …
November 9, 2010 This, written sixteen years ago, I stumbled on in the Lew Rockwell archive. While not brilliantly written, it illustrates that the more things change, they more they don’t. Oh good. I see that Senator Lindsey Graham wants to attack Iran. The US, he says, should “sink their navy, destroy their …
Americans, including many of the intelligent and schooled, have little grasp of geography and, since geopolitics rests heavily on where places are, their understanding of events relies on moral fables of good and evil. They are thus subject to manipulation by the news media and unscrupulous politicians, which is to say almost any politicians. Consider …
Much ink has been shed over the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines with fingers being pointed at Americans, Russians, and Ukrainians as the saboteurs. At this writing, a Ukrainian supposedly involved has been arrested. How the media will spin this I don’t know. There exist many politically motivated who would like to decide who …
Oh help. As I write, the mumbling egg plant in the White House shovels money and arms into two wars, neither necessary, and he and Lockheed Martin prepare for a third, also unnecessary, over Taiwan, which is none of their business. Since in the Federal Bubble on the Potomac there is chatter at the mental …
If you are a young man wondering what to do with your life, you may consider enlisting in the military. Don’t. Yes, the military has its appeal, or seems to. You may need a job. The uniform looks good. There can be adventure. You might get laid by Asian lovelies in foreign countries. These things …
I expect my columns to be gems of lucidity and concision, such as to arouse despair in other writers. I have been expecting this for decades now. It may still happen. Meanwhile I fear today’s effort will be helterskelter, having the literary aspect of a tossed salad. I beg patience. The Earth holds some eight …
As this illustrious columncharges resolutely into the future, a few thoughts on geopolitical doings may, or for that matter may not, be of interest. I’ll try. Regarding the war in Ukraine, massively different understandings exist. In America and countries controlled by it, it is believed that Russia invaded without provocation to begin reconstituting the Soviet …
LVT P5 AMTRAC. What we drove in my AMTRAC Battalion in Danang. Designed as a Landing vehicle, it had the gasoline tank in the bottoms so that, when the Marines decided to used them on land around mine fields, they were death traps. We were rushed into the war half-trained. Happy Memorial Day This might …
In Washington some damned fool Republican, actually Lindsey Graham, R-SC, suggests sending the US Army to Mexico, “to fight the drug trade,” this to be done “with Mexico’s permission,” which is Washington talk for “after buying Mexico’s President.”Whether this is luminous stupidity or malign intent isn’t clear. It is militarily absurd. Why? First, the population …