Huge interest brings Wikileaks offline

Huge interest brings Wikileaks offline
as published by wikinews.org
“The Wikileaks web-site, which publishes sensitive and censored material submitted by anonymous contributors, has experienced unprecedented levels of Internet traffic today through public interest. This interest has caused the website’s servers to be unable to meet the enormous demand of over 164 gigabytes of download traffic within twenty-four [...]

John McCains’s Remarks on Foreign Policy, March 27, 2008

From the transcript published in the Washington Post

McCain Remarks on Foreign Policy

CQ Transcript
Wednesday, March 26, 2008; 2:54 PM

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ.: When I was five years old, a car pulled up in front of our house in New London, Connecticut, and a Navy officer rolled down the window, and shouted at my father that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. My father immediately left for the submarine base where he was stationed. I rarely saw him again for four years. My grandfather, who commanded the fast carrier task force under Admiral Halsey, came home from the war exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day. In Vietnam, where I formed the closest friendships of my life, some of those friends never came home to the country they loved so well. I detest war. It might not be the worst thing to befall human beings, but it is wretched beyond all description. When nations seek to resolve their differences by force of arms, a million tragedies ensue. The lives of a nation’s finest patriots are sacrificed. Innocent people suffer and die. Commerce is disrupted; economies are damaged; strategic interests shielded by years of patient statecraft are endangered as the exigencies of war and diplomacy conflict. Not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. Whatever gains are secured, it is loss the veteran remembers most keenly. Only a fool or a fraud sentimentalizes the merciless reality of war. However heady the appeal of a call to arms, however just the cause, we should still shed a tear for all that is lost when war claims its wages from us.

John McCains Op-Ed on the U.S. and Europe

I found this Op-Ed, at the Council on Foreign Relations web-site ( cfr.org ) Originally published; March 18, 2008 in the Financial Times newspaper, It covers a lot of ground, but is far from a complete Foreign Policy package. I’ll let you be the judge. Do you think either Democratic candidate has a Foreign Policy [...]

A Higher Standard of Truth

This is the first entry, in my first attempt at on-line journalism. I am not reporting facts, merely relaying stories I’ve found on the world wide web.
I have read that fiction writers are held to a higher standard of truth, than Journalists. I’m comfortable with that sentiment.