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By
thudfactor on
July 23, 2006
The Washington Post headline reads: “In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201004.html. But it doesn’t sound like the military forgot. The military has institutional memory. The civilian leadership, on the other hand…
bq. [R]etired Marine Col. Gary Anderson, an expert in small wars, was sent to Baghdad by the Pentagon to advise on how to better put [...]
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| Tagged Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad, Gary Anderson, Iraq, law-enforcement task, Pentagon, the Washington Post, United States, Vietnam
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By
thudfactor on
May 18, 2005
*Update:* I hate it when I lose my temper on my blog only to discover “I was already outdone by -an Irishman- a Scot”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/18/galloway/index.html?source=RSS. (Many apologies.)
So the other day on the Al Franken show, Franken’s dittohead friend Martin Luther says to Al Franken’s objections to Bush’s military policy “so you think we’d be better off with [...]
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| Tagged Afghanistan, Al Franken, America, Bush's administration, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Martin Luther, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, North Korea, Saddam Hussain, Vietnam
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By
thudfactor on
September 29, 2004
Here’s an interesting site: “John Kerry’s Vietnam Medals”:http://homepage.mac.com/chinesemac/kerry_medals/summary.html, a rather lengthy refutation of _Unfit for Command_. Unlike most efforts I’ve seen to discredit the book, Eric Rasmussen actually addresses the argument of the book itself rather than trying to discredit the book based on who paid for it, which I think is a much stronger argument.
I [...]
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| Tagged Eric Rasmussen, John Kerry, mainstream media, Vietnam
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By
thudfactor on
February 21, 2003
Salon has a very interesting article today about the Human Shields in Iraq. Much better, actually, than the usual “what a bunch of stupid lefty nutbars.”
Which is not to say their conclusion isn’t exactly that.
Large portions of the left seem united in thinking “human shield for Saddam” is scarilly irresponsible. Liberal publication The American Prospect [...]
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| Tagged Andrea Tracy, Bosnia, Charlie Litkey, Chris Doucot, CNN, Iraq, Sierra Leone, United Nations, Vietnam
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