Today is the 25 th of October. And I can't think of a better reason to celebrate this day than it is the annversiary of another excursion into futility-namely that of the Charge of the Light Brigade! As is my custom, I repost an analysis I did here, many yeasrs
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I want 2000 back.
Yes, today is the anniversary of 9-11. Today will be filled with eloquent memorials, so I will not try to repeat them. All I know is I wish the day had, never, ever, happened. You don't know how I hate the fact that this date is forever fixed in the
Continue readingThe best favor we could do for ourselves.
Get the hell out of Afghanistan-as fast as we can. I would love to see that happen. If we can't afford to pay our employees their full salary, can't afford to buy the things the nation needs, can't afford to do the things the nation should be doing-then we don't
Continue readingThe real Petreaus problem.
"The issue at Tailhook is not that we took a few liberties with our female party guests. We did." Just have to do one more Petraeus post. And its not to condemn him for slicing off what appears to be a fine hunk of tuna. I don't condemn him for
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As is my custom, I am reposting this post I first did in 2005. Given the current state of events in both the US and Afghanistan these days-its important to remember this exercise in futility. Background: "The war is popular beyond belief" Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians
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Today is the birthday of Saburo Sakai. For those who don't know him or of him, he was a Japanese Fighter pilot and a great warrior. He had a wealth of harrowing experiences during the war and after the war became became a Buddhist acolyte and vowed he would never
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My Canadian counterpart has been writing some really insightful posts about the morass that is the GOP these days. You should head on over to his site and read his stuff. First off-he points out expertly what a complete idiot Allen West is, and how once again-for a supposedly educated
Continue readingPartying like it’s 1453.
Today was a full day here in Istanbul. We were up early, ate breakfast out-took the bus and the tram to Sultanmahment Station and saw all the usuals: Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, and Topkapi Palace. The last item is huge and can consume a whole day in and of itself.
Continue readingLies, and the lying liars who tell them.
Life on the end of an internet “stick” can be more than a little frustrating. Sometimes it’s quite fast-other times, excruciatingly slow. Thus I have been more than a little remiss in making my usual round of holiday postings. Integrating into life here in Germany has been quite a unique
Continue readingWhat should have been…..and never was.
Our future in space, stunted in its youth-because Americans, as a whole are pretty stupid. We went to the moon, in an aggressive fashion, and then pretty much stopped. When I think about all the money that has been wasted on all the wars between 1972 and now-we could have
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