Bookworm on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-war, Britain, England, Europe
I am a huge Georgette Heyer fan. I consider her one of the most amusing, sophisticated novel writers ever, and think it’s a shame that she got labeled as a pure romance writer, a genre that puts her in the “I browse that section wearing sunglasses and a scarf” category of books at any [...]
Bookworm on Apr 22 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Leftist morality
My favorite quotation of the day, from a Dennis Prager column: “The Vietnam War did to American liberals what World War I did to most Europeans — it rendered them anti-war rather than anti-evil.” In one sentence, he’s summed up just about every fallacy that makes it so that liberals are bound and determined to [...]
Bookworm on Apr 18 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Media matters
The news story was the beating the Iranian thugs and terrorists took in Basra. But there was another type of thuggery going on, too, and Ralph Peters attacks it with a righteous zeal:
LIKE many Americans, I get angry at biased “reporting” about Iraq and the spin from dishonest pundits. Usually, I get over it [...]
Bookworm on Apr 11 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Congress, Democrats
Michael Yon, who appropriately boasts that he is probably the most experienced reporter in Iraq, reminds us that Congress must stop obsessing about the past in Iraq and must approach Iraq as a winnable situation. He begins by detailing the enormous strides — both practical and “hearts and mind” stuff — that Americans have [...]
Bookworm on Apr 07 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama
Obama bills himself as a man of the people, who will beat down big business (although some of the more disingenuous in big business have already figured out a way to profit from these so-called populist policies). Indeed, his “man of the people” credentials may run a lot deeper than he’s admitted, since it [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Media matters, Military
A couple of nights ago, I watched a Frontline show entitled Bad Voodoo’s War, which followed a platoon of National Guard soldiers who were deployed to Iraq at the beginning of the Surge in 2007. The show’s editor/producer did not go to war with the men. Instead, she gave them video cameras, and they recorded [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, John McCain, Vietnam
While I worked on an appellate brief last night, Mr. Bookworm watched Frontline’s Bush’s War. I was not surprised to learn that it characterized the Bush administration as not only profoundly stupid, but also deviously Machiavellian, with Bush in charge, except that he’s so stupid that he is actually manipulated by the evil Cheney. [...]
Bookworm on Apr 02 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military, World War II
The Progressives are crying for our boys to come home, but these seem to be crocodile tears, designed to hide a desire to harangue and insult them when they do return. After all, whether you’re looking at the Ivies’ refusal to allow military recruiters on campus or Code Pink’s assault on the Marines, you [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Democrats, Iraq
Here’s the story:
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war
Anti-war people love to point out that most Iraqis are peace-loving, or that most Muslims are peace-loving. I’m sure they’re right. Walter Williams, however, points to the fallacy in this line of argument when you are a country under attack from the non-peace loving elements in a given community:
Horrible acts can be committed [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Israel, Media matters, Military
As is the rest of the media, the Times is making much of the fact that 4,000 American troops have died during more than five years of war in Iraq. I won’t repeat here (or, at least, I won’t repeat at length) my oft-stated belief that, while each death is a personal tragedy, this [...]
Bookworm on Mar 20 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war
As the SF Chron noted, the anti-War protests yesterday were pathetic shadows of their former selves:
In the morning, a crowd of about 500 people snaked its way through the Financial District, periodically prompting police to shut down intersections and city blocks and Muni officials to reroute buses.
Yet, despite the often creative costumes and messages, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Muslim violence
Perhaps because he’s not anchored to a presidential campaign he rightly describes as “insane,” Newt Gringrich speaks honestly and frighteningly about the problems that face the Western world today and the ostrich-like behavior that characterizes our leaders. It’s only five minutes and I think it is a must-watch.
Hat tip: W”B”S
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Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Our local paper, the Marin Independent Journal, has a surprisingly nice, fact-filled article about the uphill work of being an Army recruiter in Marin County. There’s a small amount of harassment, but mostly there’s just a huge lack of interest — which is sad, since Marin, as one of America’s most affluent areas, is at [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Media matters, Military
In the wake of past wars (pre-Vietnam), noncombatant men used to lie about having served as a way to increase their status: even though one of these confabulators might have spent the war as a sidings salesmen in Paducah, he could increase his standing amongst the credulous by claiming to have fought his way [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Rob Riggle, at the Daily Show, demonstrates that people who support the military may find that their best weapon is simply to let Code Pink talk, and talk, and talk. Man, those gals are stupid.
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Bookworm on Mar 05 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama, Iraq, Media matters
A friend sent me an email that I found fascinating on two levels. The first level was the email’s content, which describes all the huge positive strides occurring in Iraq that somehow never manage to get into the mainstream media:
Did you know that 47 countries have reestablished their Embassies in Iraq?
Did you know that [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama
Here’s the Wall Street Journal on yesterday’s overwhelming bipartisan vote to protect from lawsuits telecommunications companies that, in good faith, cooperated with the government to help apprehend terrorists:
Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington. So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas terrorists while killing most of the [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Yesterday morning, in Berkeley, they were saying this:
“Murder, rape, torture, war. That’s what the Marines are for.”
and this:
“These are very dangerous people. They’re lying to their children, talking them into becoming killers.”
I noted that the mask had slipped, revealing that the “we support the troops, but not the war” line was simply a charade, aimed [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
If you’re interested in up close pictures and eye-witness reporting from the goings-on in Berkeley, check out ProtestShooter. The pictures are from early in the day, so I can’t wait to see the next installment. My favorite photo was one that really didn’t have to do too much with the protest at all, [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Since the Iraq War began, the Left has attempted to disassociate itself from the ugliness of 1960s anti-War protests by repeating, over and over, “We love the troops. It’s just the War we hate.” That line always had a stilted quality, especial since we have a volunteer army, and our troops are willing [...]
Bookworm on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Vietnam
I’m about to show my youth and ignorance here with regard to the Vietnam War (’cause even though I lived through it, I was truly a child then). But first, let me back up a bit. Mr. Bookworm rented Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a [...]
Bookworm on Feb 01 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
My expectations of Berkeley have always been low. Already when I was a student there many, many moons ago, I figured out that few people there actually engaged in independent thinking. They were simply radical liberal lemmings. I was also pretty disgusted by the professors who lived in their multi-million dollar homes in the hills; [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama, Democrats, Education, Health, Islam, Muslim violence, Vaccinations
The kids are back in school and I thought the house would fall silent and I would blog again. However, it turns out — and this is very flattering — that there were a lot of people who wanted to talk to me but felt they couldn’t while the kids were around. I’ve [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Hollywood
I wrote generally about the gap between critics and the rest of us. Patrick has taken one critic, deconstructed his criticism, and explained precisely why that gap looms so large.
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