Don't hold your breath.
If 10 or 20 years down the line communist China decides to invade Taiwan because it has all of these nice, new, high-tech French-made weapons which are then used to kill American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, then we should nuke France just for good measure. During a state visit to China, French Premier Raffarin […]
Some of these rules the military imposed on reporters covering the murder trial of Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar -- the man who is "accused" of rolling a grenade into a tent, killing two Americans -- are overboard. I only point this article out, so I can tell a little story, based upon this rule: I […]
Harper's magazine has decided to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to several young Marines. Not really, but that's the likely fallout from the March cover. The St. Petersburg Times reports: Marine recruits so new that their hair hasn't been cut don't sound like the best models for a story about soldiers going AWOL - […]
This first got notice in the blogosphere last week, but Sunday's Detroit News provides a little more information than previous reports. The United Auto Workers says Marine reservists should show a little more semper fi if they want to use the union's parking lot. The Marine Corps motto means "always faithful," but the union says […]
The New York Times reporter Chris Hedges -- last in the news after being booed off the stage at a college graduation ceremony when he went into an anti-American tirade -- apparently has a Jayson Blair problem. Benjamin Blatt has cross-referenced the account of the Battle of Khafji during Gulf War I in Hedges' book […]
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman occasionally makes sense. These occasions start and end when he agrees with me. Today's column is one of those examples. But what really concerns me is Europe. Europe's armies were designed for static defense against the Soviet Union. But the primary security challenges to Europe today come from the […]
Fox News reported that California Democrat Lorretta Sanchez lost a game of "gotcha" with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today in a hearing. At issue: the number of Iraqi forces that have been trained. Sanchez: The numbers that you (Rumsfeld) banty [sic] around about how many troops we really have out there who are around out […]
Apparently he got a job offer at al Jazeera. (Not really.) CNN's top news executive had accused the American military, at a forum in Davos, Switzerland, of deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq. A few thoughts: I'm surprised that Jordan has resigned. I believed that if Jordan's admitted sell out to Saddam Hussein (Jordan confessed to […]