A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Some Soldier’s Mom writes OPERATION HOMECOMING: Iraq, Afghanistan & the Home Front “Today, Random House is publishing an extraordinary new book titled: OPERATION HOMECOMING: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families. Admittedly, I’m a bit biased about the anthology because something I wrote is in it, but even if I weren’t a contributor I would feel just as strongly about the importance of this book and the project behind it.” (read more)
Victor Davis Hanson writes Challenge upon Challenge “There is a new sort of war in the Middle East, brought on by the need to engage terrorists on their ground — and by the terrorists' savvy new response, which often nullifies Western advantage. Once the jihadists grasped that America and Israel were no longer content with punitive retaliation, largely by air, but would instead fight to achieve larger political aims by winning hearts and minds, the terrorists changed their tactics. So successful have they been that, after nearly four years in Iraq, the U.S. military cannot secure Baghdad. Saddam is gone, and our ground troops are backed by billions of dollars, the finest air force in civilization's history, sophisticated technology, and advice from seasoned counterinsurgency veterans. Yet the Sunni Triangle is still not safe for anyone.” (read more)
Kobayashi Maru writes Compromise With Half Truths: The Fallacy of Non-Conflict “I have been bothered for some time by a notion most obvious at the UN but quickly spreading elsewhere and that is that any and all disagreements are best solved by compromise. If two parties differ, then it's the disagreement itself, and not the fallacious notions that may have led to it, that needs to be papered over. On the surface, it's an attractive idea in that it calls up our earliest instincts about how playground disagreements ought to be resolved:” (read more)
Lorie Byrd writing at Wizbang writes Not Even For One Day “Yesterday Wizbang's content was dedicated entirely to commemorating the five year anniversary of the September 11 attacks, both paying tribute to those lost and honoring those who acted so heroically in response to the the unprecedented challenges faced that day, and in the five years since. For one day we eschewed politics so that we could properly pay tribute. Unfortunately, for some one day was too much to let go by without engaging in partisan sniping. Some even reached full derangement status.” (read more)
Dafydd writes Because We Trusted Bush... Yeah, That's the Ticket! “The story that Democrats are attacking President Bush over his magnificent, almost Churchillian speech last night is already being adequately covered by many other excellent bloggers. Oh, and also by those guys in the elite media, if anybody still reads them (besides us excellent bloggers, I mean). But I think we've found just a tiny hook that has not yet been exploited. (I was going to say "just a tiny nipple that has not yet been sucked," but I thought that unduly vivid.) Check out this line from the Reuters story: ‘Reid told reporters Democrats had been so confident the Republican Bush would be nonpartisan that they had not sought equal time on television to offer their party's response.’” (read more)
Cassandra writes ABC And The DNC's Path To Censorship “Ruth Marcus asks: Does it matter that ABC invented and distorted history in its "warning: this is not a documentary" docudrama, "The Path to 9/11"? After all, the first night of the faux drama was trounced by the brother-against-brother actual drama of "Sunday Night Football." I have a better question for her. Does it matter to the media that for the first time I can recall in my life, a major TV network was intimidated by the threats of Democrat Senators into censoring the content of a clearly-labeled fictionalized account of a historical event until it conformed to the "government approved" version of events?” (read more)
Michael J. Totten writes A Volcano of Terror “SOUTHERN ISRAEL, NEAR GAZA - On June 25, 2006, eight armed Palestinian men emerged from an underground tunnel through a hard-to-see hold in the ground, fired an RPG at an Israeli tank, killed two soldiers, snatched another young soldier, Gilad Shalit, and stole him away into Gaza. The attack lasted seven minutes. The Israeli Defense Forces then launched Operation Summer Rain against the kidnappers, against those who fire Qassam rockets at Israeli civilians, and against those who dig tunnels under the earth so they can smuggle weapons out of Egypt and carry out terrorist attacks inside Israel.” (read more)
Bill Roggio writes The Great Taliban Turkey Shoot “There is a hidden war being fought in Afghanistan, a war where NATO forces are playing a large role in combating Taliban forces outside of the view of the Western press. A little know fact is there are over 1,000 French troops in the region, including special forces units that are hunting al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the harsh mountains. Two French soldiers were recently killed fighting the Taliban. The French rarely release numbers of the Taliban and al-Qaeda killed during operations, and the numbers are high. The operations are truly 'dark.'” (read more)
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