The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed by Fox News anchor David Asman on his son, a U.S. Marine corporal. Once again, more evidence that our military men and women aren't stupid -- and they know what they're getting into when they join up. Rangel can put that in his pipe and smoke it.
Tuesday's New York Times op-ed page has a piece by Congressman Charles Rangel advocating a return of the draft. If you remember a few months back, some anti-war protesters were attacking "chicken hawks," identified as pro-war-on-Iraq Republicans (mainly) who had never served in the military in a combat situation (i.e. you must have been shot […]
There's an excellent article in today's Wall Street Journal by Brendan Minter on a link between fighting terrorism and men of faith.
The U.S. Navy is reclassifying the status of Gulf War pilot Scott Speicher from KIA to MIA and now "Missing-Captured." I strongly suspect that in an effort to bring the Gulf War to a quick close, the American government just decided to let Speicher rot -- and I'm pissed off. I've got a good friends […]
This just moved over the wires, but I can't find it available on the Internet yet, retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf has come out for a pre-emptive U.S. strike on Iraq. Speaking at a banking conference in Phoenix, the general is quoted as saying: "Saddam Hussein is a monster. There is no question about it. ... […]
From a letter writer to National Review Online's "The Corner:" I thought you might enjoy hearing about an example of the environmental craziness unleashed in the Clinton military. As a military engineer, I was involved in an F-16 test program at Edwards AFB, CA. Evidently there was some endangered desert tortoise that was indigenous to […]
The latest accounting scandal involves a (forgive the laundry list of nations) "Russian-born Canadian under arrest in Germany." It seems the man is allegedly part of an arms-smuggling operation involving Middle East countries, including Iraq -- in violation of the U.N. arms embargo. The man's name? Arthur Andersen. Via Opinion-Journal.
The San Diego Union-Tribune's James Goldsborough continues the bogus argument that one must have served in the military in order to support using the military to "kill people and break things." Bush, who knows so little about the world, is allowing people who have never fought and never served to define policy. A speech-writer dreamed […]
I spotted this item last week over at National Review Online, but never got around to addressing it. A piece by Kathryn Jean Lopez takes Congress to task for considering a bill "allowing American servicewomen and other Prince Sultan airbase personnel to go off base without the attire the kingdom of Saudi Arabia requires all […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune's Lionel Van Deerlin takes up the cause of the doves with his position that you're not allowed to advocate a war unless you've been in combat. Still, I have to wonder about the raucous calls we hear for storming ramparts in far-off places. Might such clamor come with greater credibility -- […]