WallStreetJackass

I'm with Petraeus on this one

OBEY.

you need to go to this tomorrow.

It's in New York. But we know the red states unconditionally support the troops because they pay so much more than their share of federal tax dollars to our guys in uniform.

ah, wait 

ah, facts

Thomas Friedman

wanker of the decade

a belated memorial day in nyc

June 16th at the Intrepid

Libya

three years into the Obama presidency - not content with continuing Bush's two idiotic wars - he's bombing a third Arab country. The differences between Iraq and Libya are obvious, but it's still mindblowing.

As a friend noted today; the protestors in Bahrain must be reassured help is on the way.

FT: Blair urges the west to confront Iran

while being questioned about the Iraq debacle no less.

where's Bush when you need him?

To be an American soldier today

is to serve a people who find nothing amiss in the prospect of armed conflict without end. Once begun, wars continue, persisting regardless of whether they receive public support. President Obama's insistence to the contrary notwithstanding, this nation is not even remotely "at" war. In explaining his decision to change commanders without changing course in Afghanistan, the president offered this rhetorical flourish: "Americans don't flinch in the face of difficult truths." In fact, when it comes to war, the American people avert their eyes from difficult truths. Largely unaffected by events in Afghanistan and Iraq and preoccupied with problems much closer to home, they have demonstrated a fine ability to tune out war. Soldiers (and their families) are left holding the bag. WP

email circulating around today

when I got into the army it was illegal to be a homosexual, then it became optional; I'm getting out before it becomes mandatory.

war

this is a good book - Americans should try to read it.

so true