I do like this little koi pond.
Michael Totten and Robert Kaplan talk to each other. These days, my conversations are nothing like this and I miss that.
July 3, 2009
Apropos of a multipronged windmill attack by the Salamander, an essay about scholarship and controlling the message:
One reason that feminist scholarship contains hard-to-kill falsehoods is that reasonable, evidence-backed criticism is regarded as a personal attack.
July 2, 2009
Muslim Brotherhood recruited OBL to their brand of violence in high school. (h/t I forgot)
Over at the Sippican Cottage they write better than I do. Here’s a mention of starting a band.
Steve and I crouched by the door, winced a little, and prayed or something. I went to Catholic School for seven years, but I couldn’t remember for the life of me the name of any Saint that would be the Patron Saint of Bar Fights, so the the prayers may have been of doubtful utility.
And…
Looks Like He’s Doing Okay
Check out where LTC (ret.) Nagl wound up, and who he’s hanging around with. Also noteworthy is who else showed up at the same time. From a press release:
DoD Announces New Defense Policy Board Members
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates today announced the following new members to the Defense Policy Board: Gen. (Ret) Larry Welch, former Air Force chief of staff ; Stephen Biddle, Council on Foreign Relations; Richard Danzig, former secretary of the Navy; Robert Gallucci, former assistant secretary of state; Chuck Hagel, former senator from Nebraska; Robert D. Kaplan, Center for a New American Security; Andrew Krepinevich, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; Rudy deLeon, former deputy secretary of defense; John Nagl, Center for a New American Security; Sarah Sewall, Harvard University; Wendy Sherman, former special advisor to the President.
These members join the following returning members: John Hamre, chairman; Harold Brown; Adm. (Ret) Vern Clark; J.D. Crouch; Fred Ikle; Gen. (Ret) Jack Keane; Henry Kissinger; Dave McCurdy; Frank Miller; William Perry; James Schlesinger; Marin Strmecki; Vin Weber; Gen. (Ret) Pete Pace.
The Defense Policy Board provides the secretary, deputy secretary and under secretary for policy with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning matters of defense policy.
July 1, 2009
Army of Dude reviews a reviewer, and doesn’t like what he sees.
It’s almost an art form to be so intellectually dishonest, and Marlow seems to be an up and coming Picasso.
The essay is well worth your time.
CDR Salamander is right: this was someone to admire. All those minisub guys were hardcore, and this one more than most.
Rev. Col. Sensing on the moral duties of rich people and how they differ from what some folks think.
The most cheerfully nasty obit I think I’ve seen. (Hitchen’s obits are just mean; this one’s delightfully mean.)
One guy can make a difference. Check out this guy:
Two years ago, Johnson started The List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies. He has compiled a list of Iraqis in danger and mobilized an army of 200 attorneys to work, pro bono, to cut through the exhausting layers of bureaucracy and protocol. He’s met with the State Department, testified before Congress, talked with senators and members of the National Security Council. So far, he’s helped settle more than 400 Iraqis in the United States.
But there are more than 3,000 names left on the list – the highest number ever – and he suspects there are thousands more eligible Iraqis he hasn’t heard from. “We may think we are done with Iraq,’’ Johnson said. “But Iraq is far from finished.’’
Great work that needs done. Remember the Montagnards, the Philippine allies, the others we fought alongside? We owe them.
Neal Boortz recaps the Honduras constitutional crisis between blasts at our president. I need to go look on the left side to see if his description of events matches theirs.
