THROUGH 83 YEARS I’VE SURVIVED MANY LOSSES. Some fairly good jobs, not all lost voluntarily. Parents. My second wife died. Then my lady companion of 18 years. Earlier, my first wife, our son’s mother, parted from me twice. We later divorced. In all, we survived tough times emotionally, and often unemployed or under-employed during Republican […]
Robert Shelby: A proper naming: Aerial guerilla warfare
SO FAR, NO ONE GIVES U.S. STRATEGY AGAINST ISIL ITS PROPER NAME: AERIAL GUERILLA WAR. Between congressional conservatives and President Obama’s team exists a war of ideas about war. The conservative idea, as usual, is rooted in traditional images reaching back through European history and practice to the Classical Era, even as far back as […]