Bookworm on Dec 19 2011 | Filed under: Afghanistan
Sadie played connect the dots for me: Dots begin here . . . . After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose ultimate goal is to end [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2010 | Filed under: 9/11, Afghanistan, Leftist morality, Military
As I’ve mentioned just a few times, I just read, and was very moved by, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. A liberal I know flipped through the book’s first few pages and had a very different reaction. The following passages bugged the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Pakistan
As I write this, Obama hasn’t spoken yet, but he has released excerpts from his speech. These are my first thoughts on his words: “The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Children, Muslim violence
The American and world media go into a screaming frenzy whenever American or Israeli troops injure or kill a child. They do this despite the fact that such incidents are rare and, more significantly, they are aberrant: both the American and the Israeli military go out of their way to avoid injuring civilians, even if [...]
Bookworm on Jul 29 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan
During the 1970s, there was a post-Yom Kippur War joke that was very popular in Jewish circles: Arab soldiers realized that at least half the Israeli troops they were fighting were named David. They decided to use this information to deal with situations in whch they were facing Israeli fighters who were hidden from sight. [...]
Bookworm on Jul 19 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Barack Obama
Rusty Shackleford is spitting bullets about the fact that the Taliban have kidnapped Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl and are parading him for propaganda purposes. Although it’s easy to get all tangled up about international law and whether the Geneva Convention should extend to these people, Dr. Shackleford gets to the core point, which is the fact [...]
Bookworm on Aug 25 2008 | Filed under: Israel
I recognize that these are just two snippets that focus on microcosms of entire cultures in a technological age. They’re nevertheless an interesting moment in “compare and contrast,” since both appear in today’s papers. From Israel: scientists have figured out how to use technology to make the paralyzed stand and walk. From the Taliban: Talibani [...]
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