The point is not that Marines blow stuff up. The point is that they like blowing stuff up.
Why Marines will never be good a winning hearts and minds…….
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Why Evangelicals will never win the culture wars…..
Read this Christianity Today article. And read this LA Times article.
A visual lesson on why European police are losing control of their streets.
Found by Ape Man…..
Bureaucracy in action….
The M16 has a reputation for being unreliable. So does the M4. The standard army line is that if you properly maintain the M16 and M4 you will not have any problems. In other words, it’s all the soldiers fault.
This is ridicules. It is one thing to expect a solider to maintain his weapon Click Here to continue reading.
Unbalancing Yin and Yang……
Sometimes my demographic worries embarrass me. Most of the people who worry about demographics are not people that I want to be associated with. But in spite of the bad company, I can’t but help worry that demographic changes are going to make life very interesting in the near future.
For a good example of Click Here to continue reading.
Essay of the Week: 2/25/07-3/3/07
The most dangerous thing about an evil ideology is that it makes us think that we are justified in doing anything that opposes an evil ideology. We often forget how the evils of communism caused people to turn a blind eye to the evils of fascism. And how the evils of fascism caused people to turn a blind to the evils of communism.
There is not better example of how this moral blindness work’s then the young George Orwell. As this essay reminds us, young Orwell fought for a group of murderous communists in the name of freedom.
A Cliff Notes version of "On the Fear of Matches"
The Chieftain of Seir’s essay “On the Fear of Matches” is instrumental to my understanding of US policy in the Middle East. Since a lot of people find the Chief’s essays hard going, I thought I would spell out the basic points here.
(A) US sales of high tech weapons to Israel almost perfectly correlate Click Here to continue reading.
This is why no one trusts the media anymore….
Remember when I wrote up a post on our local Muslim militia?
Well, read this from the Organized Crime in California Annual Report to the California Legislature 2005…..
Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JUF) is an international terrorist organization based in Pakistan. According to the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) 1998 Patterns in Global Terrorism, “Jamaat ul-Fuqra was established in Click Here to continue reading.
Don't you think that a nuclear exchange in the Middle East would harm the US?
I seem to be on a “pick on the Grumpy Old Man” kick. So I think that I should stress that I read the Grumpy Old Man on occasion because I think he is unusually fair-minded for a political blogger.
But a recent statement that the Grumpy Old Man made left me wondering what in Click Here to continue reading.
Why I don't worry about Iran or North Korea….
I always find the current fuss over Iran and North Korea rather amusing. To a person of my limited education, it seems that if you could magically make Iran and North Korea go away you would only marginally increase the safety of the world.
And no, I am not a liberal. I don’t think that Click Here to continue reading.