THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Kosovo gunman yells “Allahu Akbar!” Obama says motive mystifying. (Hint: 80 percent of Kosovo is Muslim.) UPDATE:  Mystery solved. Big surprise, right? We can only hope the Pentagon finally learns something (you’d think the Fort Hood massacre might have given them a clue) and starts providing some meaningful security for the troops.

Start with the latest: Army Pvt. Devon J. Harris Died November 27, 2010 serving during Operation Enduring Freedom Age 24, of Mesquite, Tex.; assigned to Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, at Ft. Polk, La.; died Nov. 27 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with a rocket-propelled grenade. [...]

A key revelation of the Wikileaks doc dump confirms what some of us have long believed: “U.S. servicemen and -women are being dispatched to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan where they are fighting Iranian soldiers and assets in a regional war with the Islamic Republic that our officials dare not discuss, lest they have [...]

That Tom Friedman of the NYTimes, what a card. Or as Snoopy-the-Goon says, it takes a village to raise an idiot.

I’m frankly sick of the he said, she said arguments about who ran up the deficit, Barry or Bush. I thought it was Barry. Now I know it: “Once this latest round of stimulus (in the form of expanded unemployment benefits) has gone out the door, we will have spent more trying to stimulate the [...]

Invited, at least. Hope Michael does embed in Afghanistan again. Maybe we can find out what’s really going on out there.

The famed military historian and one of my favorite authors on our pathetically inept prez: “His speech today was fine—if one ignores the usual serial invocation of ‘I’, ‘me,’ and ‘my’ that we’ve become accustomed to, as the president tries to radiate authority with first person pronouns rather than common sense reality.” Heh.

Looks like he has been. This is what I meant by bickering generals. With this funny observation about the legacy media from Instapundit: “Under a Republican President, it’s listen to the generals. Under a Democratic President, it’s all about civilian control of the military.” UPDATE: The most amazing thing about the McChrystal affair is how [...]

Events keep dragging me back to my earlier conclusion: we need to get out of Afghanistan. Where the indigenous president is a crook, our generals bicker, and our good troops, like Sgt. R., die young, leaving behind small children. All for gains that are increasingly hard to see. Even Gen. Petraeus is stressed. UPDATE:  Sgt. [...]

“…other than a shared furor at out-of-control spending, government takeovers and corruption, the [more than twenty Iraq and Afghanistan veteran] soldier-citizen candidates are an odd bunch. Some are officers; others are enlisted men. A surprising number were wounded in combat. “The vast majority are running as Republicans and seem to have little if any money. [...]