Archives for September 2006
Iraq shuts down Baghdad with curfew
No reason given for capital’s curfew, explosions continue in oil-rich Kirkuk and Iskanderia.
Iraq’s government shut down the capital with a one-day curfew on Saturday, ordering all cars and pedestrians off the streets and giving no reason for the measure.
As dawn broke, streets in the centre of the capital were […]
LiveScience.com - New Photos Reveal 1935 Airship at Bottom of Pacific Ocean
On Feb. 12, 1935, during severe weather off Point Sur, Calif., a U.S. Navy flying machine called the USS Macon fell from the sky, plunged into the Pacific Ocean, and sank.
It was the nation’s largest rigid, lighter-than-air craft, and the last of its kind […]
evolution: “How very… Christian”
LAWRENCE, Kan. - A judge who struck down a Dover, Penn., school board’s decision to teach intelligent design in public schools said he was stunned by the reaction, which included death threats and a week of protection from federal marshals.
Pennsylvania U.S. District Judge John […]
Mitchieville: 5000 Years of History in 90 Seconds
Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans…the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today?
Familiar, but still cool
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq—considers the now-crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are […]
Workers of the Blogosphere Unite!!! — Michael
See, Ace just takes off whenever he wants. He appears on TV, he parties in New York, he meets the President, he parties in D.C., he whines about a case of the sniffles or being tired.
Most bloggers don’t get away with this. Why can Ace do it? I’ll tell […]
He would have done the same thing.
When it comes to the war in Iraq, I still think that I was right to support it, given the information I was using to base my decision. Others can disagree. In fact, I will go so far to say that were things to play out the same way […]
Bush meets with Republican Senators, Lott comments:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush barely mentioned the war in Iraq when he met with Republican senators behind closed doors in the Capitol Thursday morning and was not asked about the course of the war, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said.
“No, none of that,” Lott told reporters after the session […]
Al Qaeda In Iraq: 4,000 Insurgents Dead
Good. Clearly better than 4,000 of our people getting killed. Outstanding military action. A great tactical success.
But what does my favorite “document of the month,” the U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual FM3-24, say about killing a lot of the enemy?
1-133. Unsuccessful practices:
Place priority on killing and capturing the enemy, […]
The ongoing battle against comment spam continues.
My beloved SpamKarma2 found something missing (or something that it didn’t like), and told me to tell my host to fix some techie setting. … Ha! Fat chance.
Just using Akismet, it let a lot of spam comments through. It stopped a lot, but let through 1 or 2 […]
Last year, I picked up some of the effusive reporting about Iraq’s Wolf Brigades, and also here, when I wrote: “One of the most encouraging reports from Iraq I’ve read in recent months. If the war there is to be won, it will be the Wolf Brigade and similar Iraqi forces that win it.”
per BBC, […]
Most Iraqis Favor Immediate U.S. Pullout, Polls Show
A strong majority of Iraqis want U.S.-led military forces to immediately withdraw from the country, saying their swift departure would make Iraq more secure and decrease sectarian violence, according to new polls by the State Department and independent researchers.
In Baghdad, for example, nearly three-quarters of residents polled said […]
General to be commander of Multi-National Forces in Iraq
Two of the U.S. Army’s top commanders in Iraq have been selected for new assignments, the Pentagon announced. The second-in-command in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, will become a special assistant to the commander of Central Command with responsibility for developing the military capabilities of nations in […]
Declassified NIE Key Judgments.pdf (pdf file)
Bush promised to release the National Intelligence Estimate. Here’s the intro:
Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate Trends in Global Terrorism:
Implications for the United States dated April 2006
United States-led counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged the leadership of al-Qa’ida and disrupted its operations; however, we judge that al-Qa’ida will continue […]
YouTube - My Cubicle
Just as a break from my endless Rummy-bashing. For all James Blunt fans.
