Category Archives: The War

The kingdom of the blind

Posted on August 27, 2007 | Comments Off on The kingdom of the blind

I was ambivalent about President Bush’s recent invocation of the Vietnam post-war catastrophe (re-education camps, thousands escaping in rickety boats, piles of corpses in next-door Cambodia) as the definitive example of what could happen if we similarly slam the door on Iraq as the Dems want to do. But the Seablogger, linking to a recalcitrant Christopher Hitchens and a matter-of-fact Mark Steyn, reminds me that the Dems feel free to flee because they have never admitted to any connection between their anti-Vietnam war effort and the horrors that followed. They would just turn their other blind eye to Iraq.

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One hundred will do

Posted on August 26, 2007 | Comments Off on One hundred will do

How many people do you need to come to your demo to get international publicity? One hundred will do if you’re an angry Muslim and the BBC is handy. Though you have to read eight paragraphs down to find the figure in this story of outrage at American delivery of some free soccer balls. Outrage!

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Monsters and victims

Posted on August 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Monsters and victims

Even a former NYTimes movie critic knows the impending flood of Hollywood war propaganda when he sees it. Call it the Susan Sarandon version of American military history. You know, Susan, the reliable pal of dictators and Jihadis? Look in vain for the ordinary, quiet heroism of thousands of Marines and G.I.’s. But, hey, they already taught you that American heroism was missing in Vietnam, right?

UPDATE: Brian De Palma is first out of the box with a flick dazzling the Euro morons about US soldiers raping an Iraqi girl and killing her family. Brian looks positively radiant in the publicity stills. It’s tempting to think he got Jihadi money for his little anti-American screed. But it’s more likely the scumbag was just thrilled to be able to suck up to the views of his Scientology pals by attacking the troops. Rot in hell, worm.

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Mookie still in the saddle, part 2

Posted on August 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Mookie still in the saddle, part 2

With the big media, and their sycophantic imitators, it’s all about the narrative, the "quagmire" or "the surge isn’t working." For a few, it’s lately become rather astoundingly flipped to "the surge is working." There’s still scant middle ground in their reporting from Iraq. Not so with independent journalists like Michael Totten. With them there’s always room for bewilderment. Especially when it comes to Mookie Sadr, the Shia puppet of Iran, leader of Iraq’s branch of Hezbollah, whom we still refuse to arrest, deport, kill, etc. Instead, surge or no surge, the vicious little neo-Saddam killer goes on and on.

UPDATE: Uncle Jimbo at BlackFive says Mookie’s recent declaration of a hudna is a stall. Of course it is. He says letting Mookie live was one of the biggest mistakes of the Iraq campaign. Right again.

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Another dead dictator?

Posted on August 24, 2007 | Comments Off on Another dead dictator?

We can only hope.

UPDATE: So far a day late, but hope obviously is a’borning. And here, as well.

MORE: Now Fidel is supposedly  writing essays. That’s almost as rich as the O man’s purported radio speeches, always certified true by the hapless CIA. As if they both suddenly forgot the word "v-i-d-e-o." TIME buys it, but, hey, they’re famous for buying phony stuff.

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Volunteering to fight

Posted on August 23, 2007 | Comments Off on Volunteering to fight

I can’t find a link for it, but the September issue of AUSA News (The Association of the United States Army) has an article about the service’s May and June shortfalls in recruiting, something they will certainly will make up for July, August and September from new high school and college graduates. The news therein that I wanted to mention was the cheery note that more than 900,000 Americans have volunteered to serve in the Army since 9/11, and more than 700,000 soldiers have re-enlisted. Retention, indeed, remains high despite the pressure of multiple deployments: 101 percent of the goal for the active Army, 119 percent for the Army Reserve, and 107 percent for the Army National Guard.

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Bullet deficit

Posted on August 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Bullet deficit

If this is true, and knowing the recent machinations of the Associated Press, it’s hard to tell…

"Troops training for and fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing more than 1 billion bullets a year, contributing to ammunition shortages hitting police departments nationwide and preventing some officers from training with the weapons they carry on patrol."

…then it is a comment on the poor planning of the bullet industry, considering that the current military campaigns are puny compared to previous wars.

UPDATE  Scott, at The Fat Guy, thinks its the cops’ fault. They’re wasting ammo.

MORE: Ha! The AP story is bogus. More MSM anti-war narrative bull. Now why am I not surprised? But it also seems Scott came closer to the truth, i.e. the militarization of our domestic police forces is unnecessarily running up the ammo bill.

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