Wars to Come

[col. writ. 12/5/09] (c) '09 Mumia Abu-Jamal For many, the Obama candidacy represented a change so profound that they thought (or perhaps more accurately, hoped), that an Obama presidency would not only mean a deep domestic social transformation, but an end to the American cycle of war. To them the news of an upsurge in U.S. troops in Afghanistan means those hopes were dashed. They