Somebody certainly should, as they have strayed so far afield from their old, just-the-facts days.
"All of which means, so far, the Democratic-controlled Congress is not only wasting everyone’s time, but again undermining U.S. troops in the field and aiding the enemy with pointless gestures, while the AP distorts the picture through skewed presentation."
You can’t make this stuff up. Jules Crittenden doesn’t have to. He just takes it off the wire.
Via Instapundit.
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“Our friends laugh at us because we give each other weapons for gifts, and they think that’s a little odd,” said Karmen, a member of the 2175th Military Police Company, Hannibal, MO “But, people that are close to us know Jason and I couldn’t be better suited for one another.”
Like putting a long-stem rose in the barrel of a 12-gauge. Works for me.
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Michael Yon, reporting on the latest US discoveries in Baqubah, where troops are bringing security to the populace:
"The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about eleven years old. As Lt. David Wallach interpreted the man’s words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, ‘What did he say?’ Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family."
I wonder why the retreaters in Congress think this sort of thing will stop if we withdraw. How can they not care? David Kilcullen, in the Small Wars Journal, reports on what we’re up to in the surge.
UPDATE Some of Wretchard’s commenters think the official was telling an old lie, but W. brings out family stories of Japanese atrocities in the Phillipines in WW2. Meanwhile, the BBC finds Petraeus’s moves hopeful, if possibly too late. If so, I think we can blame the Pentagon.
The Big E, that is, which left Norfolk on Friday bound for the Med and Persian Gulf region:
"This is Enterprise’s second deployment within the past 14 months. Big E returned from its most recent deployment Nov. 18."
Finally, Debka can truthfully say the Enterprise’s Carrier Strike Group 12 is speeding towards the Middle East. What exactly they will do there, along with two other carrier strike groups already there, is anybody’s guess. Hit Iran? Remains to be seen.
"Children are murdered in the name of Islam daily: collateral damage in suicide bombings, used as human shields in acts of cowardice, pawns in a deadly game of ‘Mohammed Says: kill the Infidels.’ Mothers callously bid farewell to their suicide bomber kids as if they were simply sending them off to summer camp…"
Penetrating commentary, especially if you have children, on the God-obsessed murderers, from Incognito. You can see why it’s called The Long War.
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The AK-47 assualt rifle celebrated its 60th birthday Friday, and Lt Col P at Op-For notes the fact, while dissing the technology. Reliable? Check. Simple? The same. Accurate? Not hardly. But, then, on full auto, hosing the opposition, who could tell? And that’s what peasants do. They ain’t target shooters.
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Badger Six presents an Army Commendation Medal, with V for valor, to a young medic, SGT Jesse Kelsch. I didn’t know you could get a V with an ARCOM. Shows how much I know, I guess.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 