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I’m not in the habit of quoting at length from other blogs, but I haven’t got the ability to say this any better. The following is straight from CTuttle on the excellent site Main and Central.
“I’d like to indulge in a little exercise, let’s take a gander at several news reports on the same [...]

Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity.
– General George S. Patton, Jr.

U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division guard construction of a concrete wall running through the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, on Sunday, May 4, 2008.
Why is the U.S. Army building [...]

Men die, but ideas live forever. It sounds nice, anyway and even provides a good storyline for movies like “V for Vendetta”, but centuries ago, pharos histories were removed from stone by vindictive or insecure proprietors of power. An ancient “Freedom of Information Act” would have preserved a much richer understanding of history then we [...]

I think we are reaching a nadir in the American consciousness. There are so many indicators both large and small. The surprising populist movement lead by Barack Obama is an obvious one. The changing language and focal points of the Right-Wing are another. Almost no one is left in the media nor in politics [...]

You live here, here, here, here and everywhere.
The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007
9. You
Charges: You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 [...]

Fallujah, Iraq lies in ruins. In the fight to take the city three years ago, U.S. forces reportedly damaged 60% of the city’s buildings, with 20% totally demolished including 60 of the city’s mosques. Of the city’s 50,000 homes, 36,000 were destroyed.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. “They made a desert and called it [...]

Ever wonder what kind of people still support the illegal occupation of Iraq and why?
Excepting, of course, the obvious shills for the military industrial complex, there remain a few naive folk who think themselves patriots and who can’t seem to figure out they have been lied to, betrayed, and otherwise taken for fools.
Despite the fact [...]

There is an excellent blog called Main and Central that is keeping up with Iraq’s War of the Bridges. The major news media are ignoring this critical development. Because of the need to maintain operational security, US commanders are understandably reluctant to talk about how many bridges are being lost.

…takes one to know one. Where on Earth DID Bush find this pig faced, scum-sucking, shit stain? Oh yeah, in the same festering swamp of scum from whence he himself emerged.
Frederick Kagan, the architect of Bush’s Surge has never served in combat let alone fired a weapon (kinda like this guy). He is [...]

While stumbling around the web looking for some good links on Socratic Argument for Glenn, I was kissed by the Internet Goddess as only the web can do when she deposited me into a warm bath in a cyber kind of ancient Greek spa wherein dwell the kinds of minds that invented the gods and [...]

One Utah authors, including me, have often criticized the milblog A Soldier’s Perspective (ASP) for offering a one-sided and intolerant viewpoint on the Iraq occupation. Since they closed their site to outside comments, I’ve mostly ignored ASP. I still have it bookmarked, though, and I clicked today and found this post from CJ: [...]

Our friends at A Soldiers Perspective have nominated OneUtah as The Worse Blog of All Time.
Just to show them what honor looks like, I ask you to vote for them as Best Political Blog, as before. In their words, “They helped me win VAMC Best Milblog, it’s the least I could do.”
And just to show [...]