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> Originally posted at TomDispatch. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. So that classic late 1960s song claimed. Still, for Bill Astore and me (and, I have little doubt, Joe Biden, too), such a thought didn’t cross our minds as we played with toy soldiers on the floors of our rooms as kids. I can still remember spending endless hours refighting both the Civil War and World War II – the war my father was in and, strangely enough, at least to me then, wouldn’t talk about – with my books

Article: Tomgram: William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East - Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played 'war' with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and 'the Japs' during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the Middle East[...]

The recent events around the dealings of Justice Thomas and his closeness with some billionaire who seems to be paying the bills for Thomas. I read a piece written by Bill Astore that sums up what is happening within our Supreme Court......a good piece and should be read..... A big part of the American experiment…

Thirty years ago, I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye of a better future, a better America, a better world. It was not to be.

Americans have become comfortably numb to the looming threat of a nuclear Armageddon.