The following news item from the Long War Journal reads like the start of a Tom Clancy novel. It talks about an Iranian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates. And then the pirates start dying (emphasis mine): The MV Iran Deyanat was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured […]
This has been showing up in various places; I finally watched it and was moved: An observation on the closing song. Back in the summer of 2001, my wife Sandra and I attended the graduation from US Army boot camp (Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri) of our daughter Heather, who had joined the Utah Army National […]
I just had a phone conversation with my son Jon (LCPL Webster, USMC), who is somewhere in Iraq. Frankly, the phone call quality was better than when he used to call me from San Diego on his own cell phone. He’s doing well, though he said that when his cohort landed in Kuwait earlier this […]
Here’s the real thing: Hat tip to Kevin Williamson at the National Review Media blog. ..bruce w..
Just fill in the blanks: An ineffectual international organisation yesterday issued a stark warning about a situation it has absolutely no power to change, the latest in a series of self-serving interventions by toothless intergovernmental bodies. “We are seriously concerned about this most serious outbreak of seriousness,” said the head of the institution, either a […]
World media outlets on the web, print and broadcast are all discussing the war games in Iran during the US night time today. The headline event of these exercises by the Revolutionary Guard was the test launch of an Iranian medium range missile, the Shahab 3. Excellent diagram courtesy of GlobalSecurity.org The Shahab 3 has […]
Just talked on the phone with my son Jon (LCPL Jon A. Webster, USMC). His deployment to Iraq is being moved up a few weeks, and he’ll be flying out of Camp Pendleton at the start of July. He’ll try to call one more time before he flies out, but after that we probably won’t […]
Daniel Drezner is one of those bloggers I read regularly, even though I don’t always agree with him — and when I don’t agree with him, I consider even more carefully what he has to say, in case I’m wrong. This paragraph, however, I think is dead on: You know how Bush officials like to […]
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
Jerry Pournelle over at his blog has linked to the Rudyard Kipling classic. Written nearly 90 years ago, it is remarkably apt right now, as our financial system threatens to melt down over human greed and stupidity: As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the […]
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