I saw mention of Lt Col Davis a few weeks ago, Rawstory has a new article, and Rolling Stone has the entire pdf file of Davis’s report on lying in Afghanistan. He and Rudyard Kipling are of the same sad awareness of the truth all around them, and the problem is not Afghanistan, it is empire. The word empire is cause for a recoiling by many in the GOP, and also many in the Democratic Party. “Why, of course that’s crazy! We can’t be an empire!” Same for occupation. “Why, we wouldn’t occupy a flea!” The establishment (the crony-and-state-capitalism-for-fun-and-profit crowd) … Continue reading A Uniformed Truthteller