There’s an old Army saying which goes like this: The difference between a fairy tale and a war story: A fairy tale begins “Once upon a time”, a war story starts out “No shit, there I was…..” Having said that, The New Republic, PVT Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s “diary” publisher, continues to mitigate his fairy tales: …
‘War stories’, Beauchamp, and The New Republic (cont.) Read More »
This is just one example of the heinous atrocities being comitted by al Qadea, and not a peep out of the NBC/ABC/CBS/CNN/PBS/MSNBC conglomerate: Bless the Beasts and Children Where did they go? On 29 June, American and Iraqi soldiers were again fighting side-by-side as soldiers from Charley Company 1-12 CAV—led by Captain Clayton Combs—and …
Thomas Donnelly of the Weekly Standard discovered a rift between the editorial slant of the New York Times and one of its own journalists: It is an especially cruel but increasingly common irony of the war in Iraq that Washington and Baghdad are in separate universes: what happens over there is not much connected to …
As usual, the New York Times gives only part of the story: Half of Baghdad Secured The Baghdad Order Of Battle as of June 24, 2007. Click map to view. Understanding the numbers behind the Baghdad Security Operation On June 4, The New York Times released partial data from a classified memorandum that stated only …
Say it ain’t so… Terrorists use Web against ‘idiot’ Americans, fostering anti-war sentiment by posing online as citizens. Islamic terrorists are engaged in a “media jihad” in which they encourage jihadists to pose online as Americans to foster anti-war sentiment in the U.S. Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, a posting on the Al-Mohajroon …
Rosa Brooks, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote the following opinion piece entitled: “To the rest of the world, we’re cheapskates” (Guess who the “cheapskates” are) …I want to talk about the federal international affairs budget. (We columnists are a sneaky lot.) Let me tell you why you should care about the international …
