There is an open burn pit at the huge American air base in Balad, Iraq, largest of four US taxpayer-funded military monstrosities built in Iraq and operated to this day without a legal status-of-forces agreement. Military Times reports on the environmental concerns of this pit not only because the details are vivid and alarming, but because Balad’s burn pit is part of a larger toxicity problem created by the American government in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Rand recently published "Green Warriors: Army Environmental Considerations for Contingency Operations from Planning Through Post-Conflict." The title alone would be Orwellian, if the researchers … Continue reading The Burn Pit