In The Trenches
We’re all in the trenches in this war.
Since Day One people just like you and me have been forced to go over the top up in the airways. Passengers who try to be good self-defending citizens will soon have legal protection from nuisance suits under the Flying Imams Shield Law. Allahu akhbar! Vid link is here, by the Beard of the Prophet!
This is a multi-front war, we all know that, and the trenches aren’t just in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Battle of Capitol Hill, the victors are eager to surrender. And eat. Pork. Lots of it.
In the foxholes of cancer, one fighter reaches out to another.
The trenches are also on TV. That’s where 14 Brits are going to be paraded, while the magnanimous mullahs let one Royal Navy mom go. UPDATE: mullahs will keep her.
Kamangir mulls his role in this conflict. Then, he considers how Ahmadinejad has made him a terrorist. He’s miserable about it.
Mohammed at ITM ponders barbershops as battlefields. Omar, who with Mohammed has played a critical role as forward observer, sends back a dispatch. Yo, a shout out to our homies in the ‘Dad.
Teflon Don’s protective coating is scratched again.
A frontline commander goes back to the place where he lost some men. It’s a place called Karma but its also a place inside.
Michael Yon on how he came to be a witness to war.
Calm, cool and collected in the cemetery.
On the Afghan plains, and above them.
The guns vs. butter debate plays out Palestinian-style in Gaza.
A tragic, deadly flow of sewage must be considered in context, when it happens in a place where the purported daughter of a suicide bomber is on TV saying, “I will follow Mummy.”
Friendly fire hits the American left, where some people have a hard time figuring out who the enemy is!
A chat with Jack Army: “The best part is seeing the Iraqis take charge of situations in the area.” Jill Army girds for battle in another fight back home.
In war as in politics, there are often strange bedfellows. Michael Totten takes a wrong turn into an armed camp of polite and hospitable Iranian communists.
On the streets of Cairo, the Egyptian Sandmonkey has a terrible revelation: “Maybe we don’t deserve our rights.”
In one corner of the battlefield where the right to life and liberty should be secured, some people are denied both.
There’s a strange quiet over the battlefield in Australia. Cat’s got the Jihadi apologists’ tongues after the Defiant Hero of Gaunt-anamo turns out to be neither defiant nor gaunt.
This, as hijackings goes, makes even less sense than most.
A bus ride through the frontlines in Chechnya, where a “secret war” continues.
Greyhawk shamelessly shills for our advertiser: Frontline is in the trenches on the information war.
A fun party game for everyone awaiting the order to go over the top: Who’s your favorite chickenhawk?*
*Lincoln actually served in the Illinois militia, but seeing as George Bush’s Texas Air Guard service doesn’t exempt him from chickenhawk status, I guess Lincoln still counts. Some detailed ground views of Capt. Lincoln’s service and leadership skills here.
Topics: ground views
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:37 am on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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March 28th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Jules-your first link goes to the Washington Post (and is about the surrender vote), but Pajamas media has the story in the Times.
Also, I don’t think the RM allows females to serve (except as bandsmen) so the young lady released is probably a squid.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Bill’s Nibbles // Open Post — 2007.03.28
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March 28th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Bill’s Nibbles // Open Post — 2007.03.28
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March 28th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
And Kamangir is a friend of Flavius Antonius, more misery.
Cheers
March 28th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Sorry CavMed, all better now.