Category Archives: The War

Melt a tank

Posted on March 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Melt a tank

Or, more likely, melt (or set afire) the bed of that baby pickup the bad guys are using to carry themselves and their heavy machinegun into battle. Looks like Boeing has beaten the Air Force to the draw on the chemical airborne laser. Although the AF version, which is already a year late, has the more important and tricky task of downing in-flight enemy ballistic missiles.

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Hilarity vs McCain

Posted on March 5, 2008 | Comments Off on Hilarity vs McCain

Well, she did win the popular vote in Ohio comfortably, and creditably in Texas, though I suppose Barry’s still ahead in the delegate count. Makes no nevermind to me who wins, though. I still don’t think either one can beat McCain’s experience, reputation, and charisma of competence. And I’m happy to say my vote contributed to his Texas win, instead of Hilarity’s as trickster Limbaugh wanted it.

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The Citco boycott is working

Posted on March 4, 2008 | Comments Off on The Citco boycott is working

Keep it up. Cut into Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s budget. Keep his troops and tanks at home.

Via Instapundit 

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The other Navy McCain

Posted on March 4, 2008 | Comments Off on The other Navy McCain

You’ve probably heard about Jimmy McCain, the son of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain who’s an enlisted grunt in the Marines and recently returned from Iraq. Now meet the one who’s got another year before he graduates from the Naval Academy. Jack McCain provides a good (if probably varnished) look at his father. I hope he’s right that dad’s temper is pretty much a myth. It wouldn’t surprise me.

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Raptor over Monroe

Posted on March 3, 2008 | Comments Off on Raptor over Monroe

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Not sure of the provenence of this photo, which is making the email forwardings rounds. But, in addition to the F-22 Raptor, I like the view of Fortress Monroe in the background, at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. I like to visit the fort when I’m in the area, to see the casemate in the bastion (to the left of the center one there facing the jet’s cockpit) where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was imprisoned after the Civil War. Poet Edgar Allen Poe was an artillerly NCO there before he was famous as a writer of horror stories. Monroe also was the headquarters of the army’s recruiting command, when I was in recruiting back in 1970-71. Recruiting’s HQ has since moved elsewhere.

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Under the rocket rain

Posted on March 2, 2008 | Comments Off on Under the rocket rain

As long as the rockets are only falling in Israel, the MSM isn’t too concerned. It’s when Israel fights back that the criticism begins:

"This is ridiculous. If there were no rockets raining on us the IDF wouldn’t have anything to do there. I don’t like the way we are portrayed. We don’t want this war. They are dragging us in. What can we do? There are rockets raining on us daily. But in the media we look like the aggressors."

MORE:  What can you do in the fifteen seconds it takes a rocket to fly the one mile from Gaza to Sderot? Via Treppenwitz. And one more. No, my concern is not for the Palestinians. Let them first stop their attacks, then we’ll talk about concern. The fact is, they never have.

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Good ole Prince Harry

Posted on March 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Good ole Prince Harry

The British royals are a bit of a joke, for the most part, but not this one. Michael Yon has more. Shame on Drudge for exposing Prince Harry’s patrolling in Afghanistan, which inevitably raised the ante on his life. Here’s hoping the 23-year-old royal finds a way to get back into the fight.

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