One year ago yesterday President Obama ordered the bombing of ISIL.
That's enough time to take stock of what we have and haven't accomplished.
There's been 5,946 coalition airstrikes, almost all of them American, nearly evenly divided between Iraq and Syria.
Hiroshima at 70: Why attitudes are changing about the first atomic bomb
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped one of the world’s first atomic bombs on the seaside city of Hiroshima, killing anywhere between 66,000 to 150,000 people.
(Hey! It's Shahryar, with internet problems on my computer so I'm using shaz's. )
Really! Those people who rule the world should be ashamed of themselves but of course they're not.
In 1939 MGM made a movie called "Idiot's Delight". You might have seen it. We never had until last night. It's Europe on the brink of war. Hollywood's designated "peacenik actor", Burgess Meredith, delivers this line:
Americans are intimately familiar with the city of Fallujah. It's where the Sunni resistance to the occupation of Iraq was born, and where nearly 100 American soldiers lost their lives in the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War. More than 1,500 civilians were killed and over 70,000 buildings were destroyed in those battles.
One year ago yesterday, Israel conducted an assault on the Gaza Strip. The Israelis bombed Gaza infrastructure, like power and water plants, and deliberately targeted civilian housing.
The Israeli attack brought international condemnation.
This evening's music features blues guitarist Ronnie Earl.
Next week Hillary Clinton's confidant Sidney Blumenthal will testify in front of Congress about Benghazi. The session will be closed to the media.
This evening's music features blues rocker Rory Gallagher.
This evening's music features blues singer and piano player Tommy Tucker.
