"Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress Wednesday to

approve nearly $190 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

in 2008, increasing initial projections by more than a third."

Profiles in Militarism

Why is it so easy to imagine John Negroponte and

Michael Hayden saying, "Jawohl, mein Fuhrer!"?

John Negroponte is now Director of National

Intelligence for the United States. If he has as

many brain cells inside his head as he does hairs

outside his head, our nation is in deep doo-doo.