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Our cowardly Army

Posted on January 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Our cowardly Army

The terrorist attack on Fort Hood wasn’t really a terrorist attack. The Army’s public report does not use the words Islam or Muslim, let alone terrorist, despite witness accounts that Maj. Nidal Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar!” as he opened fire with two personal pistols at a health center.

The whitewashed report shows the Army is like every other public institution these days, so hopelessly mired in political correctness that truth plays no role. It would be a mistake to encourage anyone to serve, since the military obviously will not bother to protect its own. If this continues, someday soon it will be too cowardly to protect the rest of us.

Via Power Line.

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Posted in Obamalot, Texana, The War, Troops

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Hugo & the P-3

Posted on January 10, 2010 | Comments Off on Hugo & the P-3

The P-3s are advertised as sub hunters but anybody who remembers the one that was downed flying along China’s border a few months before 9/11 may remember that it was packed with computers for listening to digital and analog communications.

Course it’s a bit hard to imagine Hugo’s regime being particularly sophisticated enough to warrant P-3 snooping. Which makes our denial more than plausible for once. I do wish Chavez & Co. didn’t have F-16s, but that’s neither here nor there now. Worse is Hugo’s new ties with Iran.

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Posted in Obamalot, South of the Border, The War, Troops

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Into Thine Hand

Posted on December 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Into Thine Hand

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Freelance war correspondent Michael Yon doesn’t explain the use of this teepee in Afghanistan except to say that it’s a memorial to an American unit’s war dead. MY’s apparently in need of money to continue. He’s still worth it. I’m still sending him some. You should too. (Uh, actually he does explain the teepee. The unit is the 2nd ID, the "Indian Head" division.)

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Video games go to war

Posted on December 25, 2009 | Comments Off on Video games go to war

Mr. B.’s big item for his and Mrs. Charm’s secular Christmas celebration was Guitar Hero. When he’s older he may find the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns more enlightening. Fortunately there’ll be more available than the usual anti-American, anti-war movies that Hollyweird churns out:

Video "game makers aren’t afraid to put players in situations where U.S. soldiers are unambiguously the good guys, while the combatants – often Muslims – are the bad guys."

Via Instapundit.

Re our secular Christmas at the rancho: This celebration of parties, presents and poinsettias has more to do with Saturnalia than Christianity. It is far older than the religious version. (Some nineteenth century Protestants found it so unnerving that they took to assuring their fellows that while they did mark the Nativity they did "not worship the tree.")

Christians still confuse the two, some of them whacking the secular version as ungodly. Well, to each his own. Mrs. C. would be lost without her favorite time of the year. And while he long ago graduated from Santa to understanding who the real gift-givers are, Mr. B. likewise would be bereft without packages to unwrap and goodies to consume. Good thing they needn’t be.

Link via Power Line.

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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Library, Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles, The War, Troops

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Milblogs go silent

Posted on December 17, 2009 | Comments Off on Milblogs go silent

The case of Army Master Sergeant and milblogger C.J. Grisham doesn’t surprise me. He’s in a public dispute with his child’s public school in Huntsville, AL, and his command has failed to back him. They were already irritated at his public criticism of Barry’s presidential fitness and needling of the Democrat Party.

The Army is a top-down organization and active-duty milbloggers like Grisham walk a fine line between free speech and insubordination. Tits on a boar, I say. If the Army wanted soldiers to have blogs, they’d be issued them. But other milbloggers disagree and they have gone silent through Friday to protest Grisham’s situation, which is extensively explained here. Whatever they say in public, I’m sure that’s what the Army would prefer active-duty milbloggers do: Go silent. Permanently.

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Let me make this perfectly clear

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Posted on December 3, 2009 in Afghanistan, Obamalot, The War, Troops

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Barry’s sort of, half-hearted surge

Posted on December 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Barry’s sort of, half-hearted surge

I’ve said it before, if we’re going to dither, we should leave Afghanistan immediately. The government is more corrupt than the one in Iraq (and that’s saying something) and the Afghans don’t seem to want to fight. (Reminds me of South Vietnam.) We can always go back if we have to, or leave a few spec-ops behind to direct any necessary smart-bombings.

But Barry’s new half-in, half-out strategy is pathetic. Especially his setting of a timetable for departure, which will only serve to put the Taliban and Al Q on notice that they can do all the free-killing of American troops they desire in the meantime. President Pantywaist has done the next worst thing to failing to decide at all. "America – we are passing through a time of great trial." No kidding. Will the last soldier out of the GWOT please close the door? Meanwhile, keep your heads down out there.

UPDATE:  Military analyst Ralph Peters agrees: "Our president is setting up our military to fail." Yep and, meanwhile, sending the enemy more American targets to shoot at.

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