I was waiting for a good moment to buy Michael Yon’s book about Iraq, and Michael Totten’s revealing review is the one. The fact that the book is already in its second printing and currently No. 167 on Amazon’s bestseller list also is encouraging.
MORE: Cobb has an interesting take on it, from quotes from Yon’s changed-his-mind-on-Iraq publisher, to Cobb’s angry responses to some commenters. As he says: lead, follow or get the hell out of the way.
"…of all the well-meaning desires projected on Senator Obama, the hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world’s Muslims is the least realistic."
So much for the world healer routine. Worth a read and a chuckle. Via Southern Appeal.
UPDATE: On the other hand, Hamas explicitly wants him elected and he doesn’t appear exercised enough about it to denounce the idea.
Good news from the recruiters: "All military services met or exceeded their monthly recruiting goals in April, with the Marine Corps signing 142 percent of the number it was looking for, the Pentagon said."
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It isn’t popular and that’s why someone needs to do it. Stand up for President Bush. And VDH is just the guy to do it. Like him, I could wish, however, for a more forceful defense of Dubya’s wartime and other policies by the president himself: April’s 5 percent unemployment was lower than March; more than 95 percent of mortgages are not in foreclosure; 0.6 percent growth is not a recession; the stock market is sky-high; and the Maliki government finally is moving the Iraqi government in the right direction. The arguments are on your side, George.
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Neat video look at the M-1 Abrams tank and its armament and electronics. Looks roomier inside than the M-60A1 I trained on many moons ago (circa 1968-69). Actually, I got to sit in an M-1 at Fort Hood back in the early 1980s when the Army was first showing them off, so I know they’re lots roomier.
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The (in)famous banner, subject of so many lies (which some of the commenters here repeat) and MSM sneers since 2004, was created for and addressed to the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln only, according to one who was there. Of course if "CVN 72" had been added to it in the first place, there’d have been no confusion possible.
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The really amazing thing about King’s latest, unthinking putdown of the troops–"…if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq…"–isn’t that he is repeating another famous fool, John Kerry. It’s that he’s so dumb that he imagines you can a) get in the Army without being able to read, and b) that you could do the job the Army wants without being able to read. I’ve enjoyed some of King’s books. But none of them taught me anything important. It really does surprise me, however, that he could write any of them while being such a moron.
UPDATE: Air Force veteran takes him on, too. And Doug Ross @ Journal, too: "The Dead Zone known as Stephen King’s brain."
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