Will Bunch
Writer at Freelance
National Columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer
National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer. Book AFTER THE IVORY TOWER FALLS https://t.co/KaIAvvlnc5. Free weekly newsletter: https://t.co/8g2FAYQDEV
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4 days ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
Barack Obama famously said he’s not opposed to all wars, just dumb wars. In that case, his successor Donald Trump has launched a doozy in Iran. A massive bombing attack egged on by Fox News blather inspired the 47th president to blast a sand trap in central Iran that may not have accomplished much. Tehran’s mullahs responded with a choreographed, low-energy missile launch. Instead of dumb wars, can’t we just get smart about peace? If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for free here.
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6 days ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”— Donald Trump’s second inaugural address, Jan. 20In a sense, you gotta hand it to Donald Trump.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
War. Good God, y’all. The increasingly deadly aerial conflict between Israel and Iran, sending the Middle East cycle of violence into hyper-spin, is a level of human awfulness that eludes any worthwhile commentary at this point. Except the obvious that a) no, no one wants a nuclear Iran but b) that’s why Barack Obama forged a deal to prevent it, only to watch Donald Trump rip it up so we could have the current mess instead. No one has ever said it better than Boy George. War is stupid.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
It would be a gross understatement to say it rained on Donald Trump’s birthday parade Saturday night. Man, it poured. The 47th president had hoped to rule over Flag Day by deploying the artillery of a strutting strongman, in his long-awaited D.C. parade that rolled 28 Abrams M1A2 tanks and Stryker armored personnel carriers into the capital, as Blackhawk helicopters and fighter jets buzzed the wet and muggy skies.
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2 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
One can’t help but wonder if — the infamous and incompetent Confederate general who owned 105 enslaved African Americans, waged war on Mexicans, and was so awful his own troops tried to assassinate him...twice — was looking up from his fiery eternity and smiling.
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