Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
I heard yesterday that H. Bruce Franklin had died at the age of 90. Bruce and I never met, but we corresponded and talked on a few occasions. An Air Force veteran and cultural historian, he was a principled and consistent opponent of war.
In his honor, here’s an article I wrote in 2019 on Bruce and his book, Crash Course.
Wars, Secrecy, and Lies
W.J. Astore
You know an American war is going poorly when the lies come swiftly, as with the Afghan War, or when it’s hidden under a cloak of secrecy, which is also increasingly true of the Afghan War.