In response to the article by the Guardian I sent the following email to the author:

 

 

"Some fear that the risk would be too great, that there's no guarantee that even civilian protesters bursting through a military border would not end up facing gunfire."

Well, they would in any other country in the world. Only Israel is assumed maybe not to fire on people who invade. It is only Israel where using women and children as human shields might work. Hizbullah tried ...

This is a story you probably saw all over the headlines and front pages of major newspapers.  Yes, I am kidding, we know the media would never do major reporting about anyting good in Iraq.

"Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an "extraordinary crisis". Last year's mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military "created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight". The terrorist group's security structure suffered "total collapse".

These are the words not of al-Qaeda's enemies ...

The effective use of power matters more in international relations than sheer wealth of a nation. Despite the cliche that money makes the world go around, the promise of wealth (or the withholding thereof) cannot influence hearts and minds as successfully as power can. Both can be helpful, but power can be used more effectively than wealth when it comes to international relations.

In considering which is more effective in diplomatic circles, there is a lot to be said for wealth. The promis...

Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinutjob, has once again made a threat against Israel, implying "the occupiers' days are numbered". In the same speech he also claimed Iran will not stop its nuclear development.

I believe it's only a matter of time before Israel strikes Iran, hopefully with the help of the U.S. Unfortunately, if someone like Barak Hussein Obama is elected, he will obviously want to "sit down" and have a chat with Adhmadinutjob.

I have nothing much to say about the Blakerig blog other than that Drima linked to it.

But the article about Israel triggered a short conversation.

A Sudanese named Kizzie wrote the following:

I have lots of opinion on the Israeli -Sudanese relations. I don’t want to write a long incoherent paragraph about it so, here you go

1- As a Sudanese raised in the Middle East, I was taught to hate Israel at an early age. When I grew up I learned how to make a distinction between Israel and Je...

The Rings on Zarqawi's Finger

Born an Aussie and raised an Englishman, Scott Grimshaw is an officer in the Maine Air National Guard. In November we had a chance to catch up with the exceptionally bright and dedicated young man who is balancing his role in the reserves with the demands of the teaching profession.

You hear the tales of those born as Generation X, the generation of young men and women who are self-absorbed and interested only in what life has to offer them. Then you meet someone like high school teacher Sco...

There is a debate going on in America whether or not the War on Terror is a real war and whether it's worth spending our blood and treasure winning it.

Let's take a little review. In 1979 Muslim Terrorists stormed the U.S. embassy in Iran and took its staff as hostages, tortured some of them and held them for 444 days. When President Jimmy Carter finally got off his dead ass and sent a very small contingent of military to "rescue" the staff it was met with dismal failure, much like most of Ji...

]"The reasons why we went to war in Iraq don't matter any more, we are there and that mission is accomplished."

That's a quote from a fellow blogger, buried under 99 other responses. Of course, I think he's wrong. The reasons we went to war in Iraq are central to our mission, and those reasons are changed and manipulated at the whim of this administration.

Measures of success, in a similar fashion, are "evolved".

Today, Bush cites the lower death tolls and levels of violence as his ba...

I am sure by now you have heard that the US Army had an 80% increase in the desertion rate since 2003. Or did you hear how the desertion rates are the highest rate since 1980?? If not simply look at all the news reports, CBS, ABC, AP and many many others. But like many things the media and others have tried to do, they have forgotten about the power of the internet and the availability of information because of it. Here is what they are saying:

Soldiers strained by six years at war are desert...

The US Military Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System just put up a fantastic resource and tool for those families that have loved ones in Iraq or Afghanistan.

They created a web page they call "News From The Field" and it list all the units that are deployed, and even those that are not. It links each unit to all the videos and photos that have been taken about and by that unit and put it in a very easy to follow and understand format.

For people like me that search for specific s...

Where have all the headlines about Iraq gone to? Now that the surge is working and deaths are down, car bombings down, Civilian deaths down, our troop deaths down to pre-war levels suddenly Iraq has become a tenth page story.

Just another show of how badly the MSM and the Liberal far left want defeat in Iraq and any show of winning there drives them to the point of insanity.

Not even the most crazed far left loons can spin this winning streak we are on {except colgangrene}. While Bush...

The Sitting Duck Strategy

One doesn’t have to be a Dick Cheney on a hunting trip to know that the target is the mallard sitting in the water and not your fellow hunter . For all the “lessons learned” in this “war on terror”, this real-life accident in all of its VP dimension could not have depicted the prevailing force (farce?) that swayed the course of this war more accurately. This strategy of pouring more and more conventional forces in an unconventional war and raising false hopes of vic...

While many families in the US and around the world were getting ready for Halloween, another family was getting ready to welcome home a family member that had been gone for 15 very long months. They gathered along with hundreds of other family members of soldiers to welcome home their soldier in an airplane hangar, to wait for that glimpse of their loved one when he marched in the doors along with all the other soldiers. It was 9:15am and Holly, her two daughters (17 and 20) and her son (24) wer...

While writing my article on the military's use of the UAV in combat, I remembered a news release a few years ago about a program that was starting to look at development of a new weapons, technology, communications system called the "Land Warrior" program. The funding for this program was dropped back in Febuary but is being brought back and funded again. SO I reearched it again and was amazed by what I had found, and how far the program has come.

The Land Warrior program was designed to...