Or, two more reasons why I've lost interest in the LCpl. Boudreaux case. * Justin interprets the lighthearted hijinks at Abu Ghraib. * That infamous hate-America rag Stars & Stripes reports on business as usual in Okinawa. Marines sentenced for mugging of Okinawa man...
The Bushies--sorry, Iraqi Governing Council--got caught with their pants down on the new Iraqi flag, so they have now changed it. Kind of.
From an interesting article by Charles Paul Freund on images of war dead:The struggle for war-image control began when a camera was first aimed at soldiers in Crimea, but that struggle is hardly founded on the absolutes implied by arguments like the one over the war...
"Son, all I’ve ever asked of my readers is for them to treat Bush’s ramblings as if they were the word of God." Whoa, it's getting a bit chilly up in Canada, eh?
Two points from today's War Street Journal opinion section. First, this editorial, "The Fallujah Stakes," urges precisely the type of overreaction I counsel against in today's column. Small wonder. But in the middle of their kill-'em-all routine, the editors insert a...
No news in the case of the Marine who allegedly humiliated some Iraqi kids, but the following story is part of why I'm already tired of the former.Marines get suspended sentences for assault Two Marines stationed at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station received suspended...
Ilana Mercer often defends Israel, which is fine, but she has also hammered neoconservatism and its proponents. Nothing contradictory about that, since we have pointed out time and again that "neoconservative" does not mean "Jewish." Why, then, does she now imply just...
Reader S. Melmoth sends the following thoughts on yesterday's "Let's Call Fallujah Their Yorktown and Be Done with It."South Korea also has the misfortune of having their national founding being grounded in humiliation and subservience as their liberation from Japan...
Quotation #1:The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate...
A valuable insight from a Paul Robinson piece on Iraq:Actually, withdrawing might be the best thing we could do for them. Far from provoking civil war, the sight of us running from a combined Shia-Sunni offensive could provide Iraqis with a unifying myth of...
