USA Today founder Al Neuharth wrote in his Christmas column that the Iraq War is wrong -- unlike World War II. Neuharth is a WWII veteran, but at his advanced age, but it is apparent his memory is going. Despite unhappy holidays, nearly all of us who served in WWII were proud, determined and properly […]
It's a psychological term for attributing your own opinions, insecurities on someone else. Today's case study is Wade R. Sanders, who has an op-ed piece in The San Diego Union-Tribune. It's readily apparent that the only person Sanders dislikes more than President Bush is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Most of the piece is the standard […]
Many of you know that the terrorists in Iraq got off a lucky shot yesterday, killing 22 people in a mess hall. What you won't find in any newspaper is this moving account from an Army chaplain who was there. "Mark" was put on a stretcher and laid along a wall. A small monitor on […]
Two weeks ago there was a huge media brouhaha over a national guardsman's question to Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld about a lack of armored Humvees and how the soldiers were digging through junkyards to come up with spare bits of metal to reinforce their humvees. The entire issue also became a subject of journalism ethics […]
The New York Times today reported a settlement between First Command Financial Services and the government. First Command is one of those disgusting companies that have preyed on military families. NASD and the Securities and Exchange Commission said that First Command exaggerated the track record of its high-cost fund products - with fees that ate […]
I posted a short note earlier this week on the video showing a Marine shooting an insurgent in Fallujah who was feigning death. I'm watching last night's "O'Reilly Factor" and Bill has a naive and dangerous Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch on suggesting that the Marine should face a court-martial for his actions. (Personally, […]
Monday night on MSNBC's "Hardball" program, Chris Matthews had the posed the following question to a guest in connection with the shooting of a possibly unarmed insurgent feigning death: Well, let me ask you about this. If this were the other side, and we were watching an enemy soldier -- a rival, I mean they're […]
The media is making a big hubbub out of a videotape of a Marine killing an apparently wounded insurgent who appears to be faking death. Buried in the CNN story is a fact that has a significant impact on why the Marine might have behaved with an excess of caution. About a block away, a […]
The Air Force is working on the mother of the mother of all bombs.
Marines and soldiers have begun the assault on the terrorist stronghold of Fallujah. Say a prayer for their safety and their success.