American Casualties in Afghanistan

By Howard Sachs, MD, PhD
Follow-up to my earlier entry involving the dilemma of our war in Afghanistan, or war on Islam.  I printed the piece out with some disturbed feelings, picked up my lunch, brought it to my room and turned on CNN. Across the screen were shots of the unloading of a coffin carrying [...]

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More About the Battle on Okinawa

April 16th entry to Howard Memoirs
In an ealier entry  my experiences in WW II,  I recall ending with our landing on Okinawa as replacements in the 96th Infantry division, who by now had lost half their men to a fanatical Japanese combat force, who were well trained and equipped and skilled.
Armored trucks met us as [...]

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Suicide Bombers — Is There Ever Justification?

Is it ever justifiable, suicide bombing in defense of Islam?”
Surely a question of some pertinence today, emphasized by Obama’s announced new war in Afghanistan, supposedly, directed against the Al Quaida, a fanatical fringe of suicide bombers directed against the West and a modern world of nonbelievers. Most informative on this subject is a recent book [...]

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A Terrifying Surgical Experience

Howard Sachs, MD, PhD
In these modern times, most surgical procedures are routine, painless events, especially with high tech imaging devices to guide the surgeon and an array of general and local anesthetics, Most people facing any kind of complex surgery will say: “ Just put me to sleep and wakeme when it’s all over.” They [...]

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Does an “Evil” Gene Exist?

By Howard Sachs, MD, PhD
I had gotten interested in the subject of “Evil” so that when a neighbor gave me a NY Times essay on the subject, by Leonard Pitts, it evoked the question, “ Is there an evil gene?”
Pitts attempts to deal with the question: What led the two boys, Dylan Klebold and Eric [...]

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