On
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's August, 2009 trip to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), she announced $17 million in
new funding in the U.S. Government's contribution to international
efforts to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in
the DRC.
200,000 Women and Girls Raped in the DRC
Decades ago, while a callow young reporter, I noted favorably that "the
late, great Senator George Aiken" had once famously and wisely offered a
solution to America's Vietnam quagmire: "Declare victory and go home."
That Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld supplied President Bush with Bible-laced Pentagon intelligence briefings might only seem like more Bush-era loopiness, but wait a minute. The deeper, and still current, question is: What in heaven (or, what the hell) is going on inside the US military?
A Robert Draper article in Gentleman's Quarterly revealed that some of the top-secret "World Wide Intelligence Briefings" that Rumsfeld provided to Bush were covered with photographs of Americans at war, and captions taken from Scripture.
