Saying one thing…
“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”
Barack Obama
On US troops in Afghanistan
August 14, 2007
…doing another.
Hours after US missiles killed 22 people in Fata, President Barack Obama convened […]

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Life gets more and more like Robocop every day.
SA National Defence Force spokesman brigadier general Kwena Mangope says the cause of the malfunction is not yet known.
Media reports say the shooting exercise, using live ammunition, took place at the SA Army’s Combat Training Centre, at Lohatlha, in […]

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It’s all in the spin. Good news from Iraq? Not so fast..

At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good.
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at […]

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From Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez’ speech and Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention:
Given the near instantaneous ability to report actions on the ground, the responsibility to accurately and truthfully report takes on an unprecedented importance. The speculative and often uninformed initial reporting that characterizes our media appears to be rapidly becoming the […]

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The question of what to do in Iraq today must be separated from the decision to topple Saddam Hussein four and a half years ago. That decision is a matter for historians. By any normal ethical standard, the coalition’s current project in Iraq is a just one. Britain, America and Iraq’s other allies are there […]

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Jimmy Carter was a terrible President, for a mess of reasons I don’t have time to get into. He’s even worse as a former President though, possibly the worst former President ever. He’s certified stolen elections as fair (because the Communist won), published anti-Semitic books, and now he’s an apologist for genocide.
Carter took […]

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Christopher Hitchens writes about the family of a young soldier killed in Iraq, who was partially motivated to serve by Hitchens’ own writings on the moral case for the war in Iraq. This is powerful stuff that I don’t even want to excerpt, go to Vanity Fair and read the whole thing.

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You’ve probably never heard his name, but Stanislav Petrov saved your life.

On September 26th, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was the officer on duty when the warning system reported a US missile launch. Petrov kept calm, suspecting a computer error.
Then the system reported another US missile launch.
And another, and another, and another.
What had […]

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If you are not reading Michael Yon and Michael Totten, then you are not getting the whole story about Iraq.
We don’t see this kind of reporting in the New York Times because it doesn’t reinforce their reader’s preconceptions.

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I have nothing to add to this.
In World War II, all Americans were asked to participate, to come together against a common enemy. No such thing was asked of us. We were told to stand aside and let the military and the government handle things. Result? In World War II, we had Rosie the Riveter; […]

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