Groundviews
A quick glance around offers some groundviews of meaningless tragedy in Virginia. A mother waits and receives the word she had feared. Young students describe how the routine of a day can be strangely, horribly disrupted.
You have to be at ground level to understand the ethereal truth, how sometimes, it is possible to do unimagined things. Professor stays behind to save students.
Vtech vid here. The shooter is ID’d here. More news and descriptions of events here.
A German view here. I haven’t noticed that Europe or Britain are immune to mass killings. More on why German views on just about everything are irrelevant here.
We’ll return to our regular groundviewing:
Flattened on the ground in Baghdad.
Omar remembers cold beer, bright lights and a bridge of his youth no more. These days, he has to dodge bullets just to get an Internet connection.
Bridge bombing removes some of Iraqi Konfused Kid’s konfusion.
Iraqi Mojo remembers the bad old times and looks at the recent past with bitterness as he remembers a friend.
Bill Ardolino brings us a view of the Hill from the trenches.
Michael Yon on the ground in Basra shows us another face of the British military in Iraq.
Citizen Journalist in Falluja vid roundup at Hotair.
Acute Politics, Falluja Road.
Badgers Forward promises to return to more substantive blogging but meanwhile, let’s tour the facilities. BF and TD on the ground smiling here.
Easter weekend, with incoming, in the ‘Stan.
ArmyWifeToddlerMom not happy to learn about her husband’s future via Pentagon leaks.
Jill Army, on the extension and how the things people say can freak her out.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:24 am on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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April 17th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Aren’t you leaving Stalin out of the WWII picture?
The Soviets did bag 90% of the Nazi soldiers that were killed during WWII.
Iraq shows us what happens when America and Britain try to fight a war on their own.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
There are vile characters in this world that deserve horrible death. Unfortunately, these vile ones still live. One day, the death they deserve will greet them.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
You’re also forgetting 50% of the Poles (including thousands of their military officers), plus a lot of people in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, alphtard. All of this courtesy of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that Stalin signed with Hitler. Think of all the Soviet citizens that might have lived had Stalin not aligned the USSR with Nazi Germany’s plans to conquer Europe….and maybe that Soviet kill might have been closer to that 90% that you claim!
The INTERNET shows us what happens when alphtards try to revise history to match their Sphere of Reality.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
PS: This isn’t the first time you’ve been smacked with this specific topic, alphtard. I thought you lefties were all about learning from history. Guess not, huh?
April 17th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I haven’t noticed that Europe or Britain are immune to mass killings.
Ah, but, Jules! The Europeans are highly experienced in mass killings, although the British experience is several centuries out of date. I’m sure that their suggestions will (eventually) reflect that history.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I see the usual cloud of fringe right squid ink in your post, Jeff, but I don’t see anything there that would dispute my comment.
The Soviets killed 90% of the Nazi troops that died during WWII.
America and Britain scored an assist, at best, in that conflict.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I see the usual cloud of fringe right squid ink in your post, Jeff, but I don’t see anything there that would dispute my comment.
BUAWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
alphtard, you actually support Stalin aligning with Hitler! The occupation of Eastern Europe, the massacres by Soviet forces, the decades following WWII of oppression under the Soviet heel, every thing. Except that the USSR went down hill after that. It took 40 odd years, but it collapsed with a resounding thud. Even Putin today is a faint shadow of once what was the mighty Soviet empire.
So that’s your real problem, huh? But you can’t admit it openly, less everyone knows that you are in favor of mass murder and brutal warfare. In fact, I expect that you think Stalin would have done a better job in Iraq, eh?
No matter — you are interesting to debate soley because you are so clueless that you step on your own wang. Not because you make any significant comments, points, or statements. But because you are THE ALPHTARD!
April 17th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
If anyone should ever need to know the definition of the word “hero”, one need only point to Liviu Librescu. RIP, professor. You’ll be remembered, as those less worthy will not be.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Oh, yes, and just to point out the obvious to commie-loving scumpuddles (love that word, TRJS), Liviu Librescu was a JEW! Choke on that.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I didn’t say that Stalin was a good guy, Jeff.
I didn’t say that the Soviet way was a good thing, either.
That still doesn’t give the pro war crowd the right to rewrite history to lend support to their disastrous wars.
Just that the Soviets fought the Nazis head on while Churchill and Roosevelt smoked cigars and nibbled at the edges of Hitler’s empire.
Bush and Blair are indeed doing their best Churchill and Roosevelt imitations, but this time, there are no Commies around to do the actual fighting.
If you’re gonna base a war on historical example, better get your examples right, or you end up with a fiasco.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I didn’t say that Stalin was a good guy, Jeff.
Oh, really? Then you retract this?
Aren’t you leaving Stalin out of the WWII picture?
The Soviets did bag 90% of the Nazi soldiers that were killed during WWII.
Because, y’know, if Stalin wasn’t a good guy, then the Soviets weren’t the good guys, right?
Just that the Soviets fought the Nazis head on while Churchill and Roosevelt smoked cigars and nibbled at the edges of Hitler’s empire.
I guess you’re forgetting this, then.
That still doesn’t give the pro war crowd the right to rewrite history to lend support to their disastrous wars.
BUAWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!
Projection does not become The Alphtard.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Rebecca, I agree. Professor Librescu is a hero.
And to crank up the irony even more, Profession Librescu was a HUNGARIAN-Jew. Another nation occupied by the Soviet Union for decades.
Awaiting a non-seqitur or goal post move by The Alphtard in 5, 4, 3, ….
April 17th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
As I have pointed out before: the survival rate for German POWs taken by the Soviets was very low (of those taken at Stalingrad the survival rate was less than 5%). German POWs taken by us fared considerably better, but by Alphie’s ‘logic” we ought to have killed more of them so that we could take more of the “credit” for the win.
Of course, he would then be back making another inane comment about executing American soldiers. There’s no reasoning with the little troll.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
CavMedic, The Alphtard ignores anything outside of his Sphere of Reality.
There’s no reasoning with the little troll.
Correct, but it is fun to show The Alphtard his mistakes. Though I shouldn’t egg the twit on.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Why Cav, you must not have gotten the memo from the ant that reason is only a bunch of rightest bias blahblahblah. There’s no such thing as man’s faculty of awareness, nor the tools of its practice, logic, nor a conceptual consciousness of any sort. I suppose this leaves only the perceptual level of awareness, with the grunts, tweets, and scent trails used for communication. It explains a lot.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
CavMedic,
The Soviet’s clever strategy of having very harsh winters and roads four feett deep in muck also turned out to be a winner for them.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
The Soviet’s clever strategy of having very harsh winters and roads four feett deep in muck also turned out to be a winner for them.
True, corndog, true. No doubt throwing the German POWs into gulags until the early 1950’s was an act of kindness on the part of the Soviets.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Real Jeff,
Packing the German factories onto rails and shipping them off to to where the Don flows also worked wonders for the proletarian dream.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Well, the Soviets did need a lot of cheap labor to get those factories working again…..
April 17th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
An Egyptian General is flipping through the T-72 owner’s manual from his new tank when he comes across the section on tactics:
Tactics
———-
When attacked, retreat, and await the snows of winter.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
alphie uses an argument that many have used before him, just as dishonestly. He pretends that the German army was the only enemy to be defeated in World War II. No doubt it was the strongest enemy, but the Japanese Army, Air Force, and especially Navy were quite formidable, and the USSR did
April 17th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Don’t know why that was truncated:
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April 18th, 2007 at 12:12 am
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April 18th, 2007 at 12:15 am
One more try. Apparently my less-than signs are screwing things up and need to be replaced with ampersand + LT + semicolon. Let’s see if this works:
alphie uses an argument that many have used before him, just as dishonestly. He pretends that the German army was the only enemy to be defeated in World War II. No doubt it was the strongest enemy, but the Japanese Army, Air Force, and especially Navy were quite formidable, and the USSR did <1% of the killing and dying needed to defeat them. The German Navy — the U-boats, I mean — was also quite formidable, and the USSR did <1% of the killing and dying needed to defeat it. I don’t know how to apportion the defeat of the German Air Force between the western allies and the USSR, but I suspect that the US and UK did most of that, too — certainly far more than 10%. Of course, the Italian armed forces were nothing like as effective, but they still had to be defeated, and it was the US and UK that did much of the work of defeating the Italian Army and Air Force and all of the work of defeating the Italian Navy. On the other hand, the USSR did most of the work of defeating the minor Axis allies, Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. To sum up, anyone who pretends that the USSR did 90% of the work of defeating the Axis as a whole — army, navy, and air force of three major powers and four smaller countries — is a liar or a fool. Which is alphie? Hard to say, and the two are not mutually exclusive.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:46 am
I know we sure could use 30 million Soviet troops willing to fight to the death on our side in Iraq, Dr. W.
Bloviating leaders and steely determination have turned out to worth less than a warm bucket o spit.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Yup! The Alphtard obliged us with some more of his famous non sequiturs and answer deflections when his favorite totalitarian regime gets exposed for the corrupt and vile machine that it was.
Yay, Alphtard! Keep up the good work, showing the world just what the lefties are all about.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:21 am
I never said it wasn’t a vile regime, Jeff.
It was smart of us to ally ourselves with them during WWII, though, wasn’t it.
Something to ponder when the guys who blew an easy layup of a war still refuse to work with anyone in the Middle East who doesn’t meet their “high” standards of “morality.”
Wankers.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Goal post moving as well. Keep it up, Alphtard! You’re doing Lenin proud, being such a useful idiot!
April 18th, 2007 at 4:27 am
aphie, ya degenerate intellectually inbred piece of enemy sympathizing crap, how ya been?
Oh, and your hero Stalin, you do recall that he kept his soviets to honoring their nonaggression pact with the Japanese up until just before we vaporized a couple of their cities, right?
Russian help in the Pacific theater, Zero, zip, nada, nill.
Although, I do understand that for you’re particular form of dysfunction, everything must be eurocentric to actually count.
April 18th, 2007 at 5:28 am
I seem to recall Stalin’s boys kicked the Japanese outta the Korean peninsula at our request.
1,000,000 Japanese troops taken care of = nada?
Don’t recall that our guys ever faced a Japanese force anywhere near that big.
That’s why there’s a crazy guy with nukes in da northern half of Korea today.
April 18th, 2007 at 6:58 am
Grimmy: Don’t write “just before we vaporized a couple of their cities”. The USSR did not declare war on Japan until August 8, 1945, which was two days after Hiroshima and one day before Nagasaki. And they didn’t invade Korea until August 18th, which was four days after the Japanese surrender. Was this “at our request”, as alphie writes? I doubt it, and we certainly didn’t ask them to impose a Communist slave-regime on the area for the next 60+ years. Unless by “we” alphie means himself, in which case I’m not so sure. I do know that the Soviet role in the war on Japan was a lot like the hyena’s role in a zebra hunt — sitting on their asses until the lion has killed the zebra and then joining in the feast while it’s still warm and twitching and technically still just barely alive.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:07 am
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April 18th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Cho “is mentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an imminent danger to self or others as mental illness, or is seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self, and is incapable of volunteering or unwilling to volunteer for treatment,” reads the order, obtained by FOX News.
NBC Received Package Mailed By ‘Mentally Ill’ Virginia Tech Gunman
As reported by Fox News Live, NBC thinks the “package” was sent BETWEEN, shootings.
This is criminal negligence, at the very least.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266683,00.html