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Quagmire

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South Vietnam is what this map reminds me of. Think of the red places as NVA-controlled Indian Country. Places where our forces didn’t/don’t go for very long. S. Warzistan on the left bottom is where that Predator’s Hellfire missiles killed all those Talibani at the funeral the other day. Eighty-something. I expected to be reading of Lefty outrage about that by now. The fact I didn’t sorta figures, though.This is Barry’s campaign now. He campaigned for it. His Leftist pals wanted it. Now they’ve got it. Lotsa luck. They’re sure going to need it.

I think they’re all going to be very sorry before The One’s first term is over. Iraq was/is the Left’s hated campaign, but it’s the one that made the most sense to me. Nevermind the WMDs and all that baloney. The point in going in there was/is that it’s in the middle of the Jihadi swamp that needs to be drained. I also believe that whatever success we’ve had there had more to do with the recent Iranian uprising than anything Barry said in Cairo or anywhere else. (He’s too longwinded, too on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand, to inspire anybody.) So let’s see what he’s going to do with Afghanistan. Wallow in the quagmire, I expect. Although that Predator strike on a funeral, of all things, was a good start. Wish we’d had more UAVs in South Vietnam. Apaches are nice, too.

Flying the Texas flag upside down

This is a funny site about a situation I didn’t realize was so prevalent: flying the Lone Star upside down. Actually, there’s an easy way to remember that the white part is rightside up, and the red part is downside down. It’s not PC, just a fact: in the struggle to settle Texas, the whites came out on top.

Their culture was entirely incompatible with that of the nomadic Comanches and Apaches, and especially the cannibalistic Tonkawas. Texas historian T.R. Fehrenbach explained it very well: "On the frontier, it was Them or Us and They were killed so that We might live. In such wars the defeated vanish in ignominy. The winners hold out neither hope nor generosity." It wasn’t about good or bad. Only survival.

Via Texas Blog Notes.