In Backtalk: Emile Meylan describes visiting his daughter Mariela at the Walter Reed Medical Center. R.T. Carpenter points out that the last Civil War widow/ pensioner died just last year. The hundreds of billions budgeted for today's wars are just the down payment....
As a follow-up to Justin's great myth-busting post on new neocon pinup Walid "Oil & Jews" Jumblatt, here's a partial list of the great sages (besides Michael Young, who was Jumblatt when Jumblatt wasn't cool) who now consider him an authority:Instapundit (of course)...
Ali, the "Free Iraqi" has written an interesting post about how the New Iraqi Democracy is working out. Apparently his comment was inspired by 4,000 Sadrist militiamen marching in the streets of Basra in a show of power today.I say no to any reconciliation with...
and guilty of shaming UK." According to the Scotsman, two low level British soldiers have been convicted of "abuse," in their treatment of prisoners in Iraq at what they call "Britian's Abu Ghraib." Quoth The Scotsman: "THE ARMY was facing major questions over its...
It is reported that a US marine, who was captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged due to lack of evidence. Here's a video of the shooting. Here's an eyewitness account by the...
Something I left out of today's column: in trying to back up his assertion that Syria is to blame for the assassination of Lebanese politician-businessman Rafik Hariri, Michael Young cites one Walid Jumblatt, the head of the Progressive Socialist Party. But who is...
How absurd is it for a foreign country to send troops to another foreign country and then import other foreign troops in to guard them? And when one foreign country decides to pull its troops out of the invaded country the remaining foreign country's troops have to...
Juan Cole has a long post up in which he analyzes the somewhat sketchy information available about the process of choosing a candidate for PM of the Iraqi Assembly. Rather surprisingly, Ahmed Chalabi is still announcing to anyone who will listen that he has the votes...
According to a report from the Pentagon's testing and evaluation office, the Defense Department wants to "target an adversary's space capability by using a variety of permanent and/or reversible means to achieve five possible effects: deception, disruption, denial,...
I know Reason magazine gets its fair share of abuse around here, but this gem from Tim Cavanaugh is my early frontrunner for comment of the year:I think it says more about how contemporary liberals view themselves than about our "debased political terminology" that...
