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 31 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Military
First, the NY Times announced that American troops were crazed killers. Next, it announced that they were crazed homeless people. The latest salvo the media has launched at the troops to counteract the Surge’s success is that they’re so crazy they are killing themselves in droves:
As many as 121 Army soldiers committed suicide [...]
Bookworm on Jan 20 2008 | Filed under: Military, San Francisco
A few months ago, San Francisco humiliated itself by refusing to allow the Marines to film part of a TV commercial on San Francisco’s streets. Looking at what the Marines eventually did for the Bay Area portion of their shot, which was to use the Golden Gate Bridge as soon from the Golden Gate [...]
Bookworm on Jan 03 2008 | Filed under: Iraq, Military
The Surge’s effectiveness in bringing down the rate of deaths in Iraq is stunning. Naysayers (and there are a few who hang out here), have already moved the goal posts, saying that the Surge hasn’t worked because (a) all the necessary internecine, tribal, religious, etc., killing was already done before the Surge kicked in and [...]
Bookworm on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Military
The following advertisements are so inflammatory that the major networks are refusing to run them. And, apparently, they are so frightened of the repercussions associated with their refusal to run them that the are stonewalling any efforts at correspondence regarding the ad’s contents.
Do the ads demand jihad? Are they advocating the overthrow of [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war
When I say “the war at home,” I’m not taking of the home front, a la WWII. I’m taking about Americans at war with the War. One young American, fighting (and, ultimately, dying) in Iraq, had his fill of that war:
Published: Oct 19, 2007
A Soldier’s Last Words: Listen Up CBS, CNN, Cindy [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Education, Military, San Francisco
San Franciscans keep electing people like this, so I guess they get the government they deserve. By this, I mean the Stupes who decided to give everyone ID cards (which sounds like a good way to connect terrorists to their own personal bank accounts) and the School Board which is bound and determined to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2007 | Filed under: Military
Although, tomorrow, November 12, is the “official” Veterans’ Day, so that federal and state offices, courts and schools can shut down, today is the real Veterans’ Day. In 1918, World War I officially ended on the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month. By the time that clock stopped ticking, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: Military
I enjoy action movies, but I never confuse the pampered star — equipped with a personal assistant, bottled water, and color coded M&Ms — with the sweaty, straining hero he portrays on screen. Ben Stein went one further and wrote a whole book about the real heroes, the men and women who, at incredible [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Iraq, Media matters
TNR has finally broken its silence and responded to the fact that Drudge made public documents regarding the Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair. According to TNR, everything Beauchamp said is true, and any recantations resulted from the military’s bullying him, augmented by right wing spin. I don’t have time to comment know, and don’t [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2007 | Filed under: Military
Today’s generation of kids tends to get dreadfully confused, and ends up thinking that blow-dried, plastic, vapid actors are heroes because they take on those roles in movies. It would be great if these guys could go around wearing signs warning “I’m not a hero, but I play one on TV (or in the movies).” [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2007 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Military
Yesterday I blogged about the fact that, in Israel, the military solution is working against the Intifadah. Today, Roy Robison points out that the same is true in the war against Al Qaeda. (He also notes that there is no truth to the anti-War charge that the Bush Administration is so busy in [...]
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