Senior Fellow Orville Schell was cited on USAsian Wire for his contributions to the creation to the Pacific News Service. The news service, which was created during the Vietnam War to provide an alternative prospective to the conflict, is now celebrating its 40th anniversary…….
Day: November 16, 2010
The Cowardice of America at War
Photo credit storqmplusI had to pull over to the side of La Cienega Boulevard last Tuesday evening as I drove home from work. I was crying. It was nothing, or it was the same old thing. I was listening to the news on National Public Radio when there was another story about another death in Afghanistan. Pfc. Andrew Meari, age 21. A village called Senjaray. An Afghan on a moped pulled up next to an American truck and blew himself up, killing Meari and another guy. The Americans, my countrymen, were there, near Kandahar, working to win the trust and……