Today's dedication ceremony and reenactment in Balaclava, Ukraine, in honor of the valiant charge by British cavalry during the Crimean War brings to mind once again Alfred, Lord Tennyson's stirring poem of heroic duty. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" has...
In light of today's horrendous news that 380 tons (760,000 pounds) of high explosives seem to have been "mislaid" in the aftermath of the war in 2003, I was reminded of a blog entry I posted in January 2004 which dealt with a similar theft, only then it was about...
Here's the big story for tomorrow. Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq Josh Marshall Michael Froomkin. Obsidian Wings:Since this was an IAEA site, its location, and what was there, was known to us before we invaded. What, exactly, were our troops doing...
Steve Gilliard wrote what struck me as the most insightful take on the execution of almost 50 "cadets" or whatever they're called in Orwellian-Iraqi - semi-"trained" Iraqi National Guards today:They were betrayed by a member of that unit. There is simply no other way...
A few days ago I posted a blog entry about a 70-year-old reservist called up for Iraq duty. I recorded the segment from the evening news on KNTV (NBC in San Jose, California) and then transcribed the information into my blog entry. I received many emails from people...
Today, on the Weekend Interview Show, Scott Horton will be talking to the brilliant Alexander Cockburn, publisher of the great lefty newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn has received high praise from the none other than the Frumster, (that's a much better link than the...
Recommended reading Good stuff at Noah Schachtman's place, taking off from this must-read Washpost article. Schachtman: Bottom line: the Bush administration thinks fighting terrorism is like taking on the Mob; all you have to do is lock up the top bosses, and the gang...
All through this mess, I've been wondering, whenever someone makes an observation like "we are in danger of losing this war", how exactly they would define winning this war. I suspected that the more blood had been spilt, the greater the chance that "we" had "won"....
I’m watching Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, via the online video hook-up to the Cato Institute’s conference which is "debating" the Iraq war as if it were a controversial question among libertarians. His speech is all about how we have to have an...
I’m watching Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, via the online video hook-up to the Cato Institute’s conference which is "debating" the Iraq war as if it were a controversial question among libertarians. His speech is all about how we have to have an...
