Did people actually think Khamenei was going to let someone other than Ahmadalphabet win? Seriously? How many thousands of pages of ink were spilled detailing what an oppressive regime Iran is over the past few years? Every candidate for President in the last election discussed what a tyrannical regime there is in Iran. And people …
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No Good Can Come From This
I doubt this ends well: The Kremlin wants to revamp a top-heavy institution by sharply cutting the number of officers and carrying out a long overdue transition from a cumbersome military machine designed for a land war in Europe to a lithe force that would handle regional wars and terrorism. But the plan, though praised …
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This: It was Sunday night in Baghdad, and President Obama was ordering Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of the American troops here, to shave Stephen Colbert’s head. (Not to give everything away, but the general is not as brutal with an electric razor as one would expect a bald man to be; Mr. Colbert’s hairdresser, …
65th Anniversary of D-Day
I just watched the ceremony, and as always, was left wondering what my life would have been like had I gone through something horrifying like that. We owe those guys so much. Every D-Day, my thoughts always return to the boys of Bedford, Virginia. Here is a post I wrote several years ago remembering all …
The Part That I Think Will Resonate the Most
When I heard the speech this morning, this portion stood out: The fourth issue that I will address is democracy. I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq. So let me be clear: no system of government …
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Mistakes Were Made
Why do these guys hate the military: A military investigation has concluded that American personnel made significant errors in carrying out some of the airstrikes in western Afghanistan on May 4 that killed dozens of Afghan civilians, according to a senior American military official. The official said the civilian death toll would probably have been …
Red Province, Blue Province
Harold Myerson of the Washington Post is shrill about our new economic overlords’ skill at learning from America’s Best Capitalists(tm): The military units that rolled into Beijing 20 years ago today came chiefly from the sticks. Isolated by geography and indoctrination from the liberalism flowing through Chinese cities and packed into Tiananmen Square, they were …