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Written by Chris Lombardi
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
 “I joined the military to kill Iraqi people,” Kristofer Goldsmith said softly in a Congressional hearing room in May of last year. The slim young veteran, his mohawk pulled back from his head in a half-braid, kept his eyes focused forward as news photographers scurried under the table at which he sat, saying: “I remember on September 12, 2001, looking up at the TV screen as a sixteen-year-old boy, saying we should use biological weapons and eliminate the threat in the Middle East.” |
Capitalism: A Love Story
President Barack Obama has a choice to make – and it is one of Faustian proportions. He needs to decide who he wants to be, and how he wants history – and his children - to remember him. More specifically, he needs to decide whether he wants to be a Great Leader or whether to play it safe in the interest of being a two-term president. 
