The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

As If You Needed Another Reason To Support Pro-American Candidates In Three Weeks

by Smitty A SEAL funeral features something unique: The USNI Blog post continues: In April of 2007 1st Recon Battalion’s Lt. Travis Manion was killed on patrol in Iraq. He was buried near his hometown in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Three years later, on the 21st of September, Travis’ best friend, Navy Special Warfare’s Lt. Brendan Looney […]

Brilliant: U.S. Gives Pakistan $1 Billion; Pakistan Helps Our Enemies Kill Us

That’s the bottom line on the Wikileaks document dump, which shows that U.S. aid to Pakistan isn’t buying us any love: Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a […]

Witness for the Prosecution

On the list of witnesses for the Kagan confirmation hearings is a name I know well: Capt. Flagg Youngblood, United States Army Flagg is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, but I know him better as a former campus organizer for the Young America’s Foundation — we sat at the same dinner table at a YAF conference in […]

Defeatist Peaceniks Upset That Obama Isn’t Losing Afghanistan War Fast Enough

That’s not the headline on the Politico story, but it could be: The president and congressional critics, long on a collision course over the war in Afghanistan, are hurtling ever faster toward each other since the ouster of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and doves on Capitol Hill are feeling a little tougher right now. The anti-war […]

Gen. McChrystal Relieved of Command

This was predictable: President Obama has relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his command in Afghanistan, administration officials said. Obama will make the official announcement in a few minutes. UPDATE: Gen. Petraeus has been asked to take over in Afghanistan. UPDATE II: Sissy Willis on Twitter: The slur “General Betray Us” was coined by Keith Olbermann. And the […]

Worthy Of Review In The Case Of General McChrystal

by Smitty There is precious little I have to add to the discussion. But I know someone who does: “Now, you sunsabitches: you know how I feel.”

If McChrystal Is McArthur . . .

. . . in this analogy, then I guess Barack Obama is trying to be Harry Truman: The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been summoned to the White House to explain biting and unflattering remarks he made to a freelance writer about President Barack Obama and others in the Obama administration. The […]

D-Day: Remembering the Bedford Boys

June 6 is a day of remembrance in the Shenandoah Valley town of Bedford, Virginia, home of the National D-Day Memorial. One of the questions most frequently asked about the Memorial is, “Why Bedford?” You see, there was a local Virginia National Guard unit that was mobilized in February 1941, and the D-Day Memorial site […]

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