"Hollywood acting as a collective voice stakes out an anti-victory position on the current war in Iraq, continuing its deplorable 40-year streak of working against the United States’ strategic objectives at a time of war. Congratulations to every heroic studio exec and heroin-addled reality star for being ahead of — and helping to move — the polls."
Read it all.
Remember? Iran, Iraq and North Korea. More on that secretive Israeli air strike/raid.
"Evidence that North Korean personnel were at the (Syrian) site is said to have been shared with President George W. Bush over the summer. A senior American source said the administration sought proof of nuclear-related activities before giving the attack its blessing."
One (Iraq) down and two to go.
It’s such a pity that journalism, which claims such high motives, has so many practitioners who thrive on sensation, and have an innate inability to acknowledge complexity. Thus Drudge is headlining today in red: "Shock: Greenspan Claims Iraq War Really Was For Oil." What nonsense. Of course it was for oil. And for our national security, and to spread Democracy in a part of the world whose despots are helping breed the terrorism which led to 9/11, and yet exports the one commodity, oil, needed by every economy. Without which, at present, every one of them–including ours–would collapse and billions of people would suffer. How can we not fight for oil?
"It is often said that had the weeks in the hedgerows after D-Day (June to late July 1944) or the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944 to January 1945) been televised each hour on CNN or Fox—with real-time email and cell phone communications with beleaguered soldiers in the field—we would never have won either battle."
–Military historian and prolific military author Victor Davis Hanson on the new face of Western war.
MORE: Underscoring Hanson, there’s this bad news. Whatever the good Gen. Petraeus had to say, and what I saw sounded like realism to me (insurgencies, as he wrote in the Army’s new manual, take a decade or more to defeat), the Iraqis apparently aren’t impressed with the surge. Not that the campaign has ever been entirely for them, mind you. Or that I would trust a BBC poll in the first place, but it’s worth considering.
The New Republic’s "Baghdad Diarist" admits he erred (or, as Power Line says, the actual word is lied) about one of his three controversial reports. The others he’s apparently sticking to, and TNR claims (not very convincingly) to have anonymous sources corroborating them. Ah, those everpresent anonymous sources the MSM loves so much. So handy. His chain of command, meanwhile, says they can find no proof of the other two incidents, either. No word yet on Beauchamp’s fate. Ah, the wages of ambition.
UPDATE The Army makes it official. They can find no evidence, etc., for the truth of any of it. TNR is sticking to its anonymous sources. Standoff, I guess you could say, except that Mr. Beauchamp is sans laptop and cellphone and, henceforth, is incommunicado.
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Teflon Don has a short, succinct explanation for why there’s so much difficulty in keeping the electricity on, four years into the Iraq campaign, even for soldiers who patrol all the time, except for the afternoon hours when they try to sleep in the unalleviated heat.
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Jack Kelly, a veteran himself, has got it right. The New Republic’s "Baghdad Diarist" has been outed and now his journalistic and military "careers" are on the line, as well they should be:
"Now that they’ve demonstrated their diarist is a real soldier, the New Republic’s editors feel vindicated. But the issue is not whether Pvt. [Scott Thomas] Beauchamp is a soldier. It’s whether he’s telling the truth or not. And his story stinks to high heaven."
As Kelly says, if he’s lying, then he and his liberal editors are exposed as the partisan fools they are. If he’s telling the truth, then he and everybody in his chain of command is headed for judicial punishment. Either way, Chuck, you’re toast.
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