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Down On The Ground …

… looking, listening, moving around:

Teflon Don takes a 40-hour road trip. I. Awkward First Dates.  II. Hadji Houses.  Part III isn’t up yet, but you’ll be able to find here when it is.  Those who haven’t encountered Don before may want to check in here.

Michigan, Iraq.

Stanley Cup, Afghanistan.

JD Johannes, Outside the Wire, with notes on “How to beat an insurgency” and an urgent message delivered with a kiss.   

Yon, with a bleak, irony-laden look around.

Staff Sgt. Thul with an unsentimental view of what victory will look like.

Omar Fadhil on Sundays under fire.  And here, asking in Baghdad, “Why are the Democrats doing this?”

Lawrence Kagan takes a closer look at the ground-level myopia of those who would lead us.

John honors one as he wishes he could honor them all.

The Experience of Walter Reed: Part I. Part II.   

Sir Rowland announces himself.

A noisy offering. 

Major John’s terrible and vital task. 

Afghan Lord, forced to make a hard choice, abandons anonymity. 

This collection of ground views has to end on a sad but still hopeful note, with the Egyptian Sandmonkey’s manifesto.

Topics: ground views

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:48 am on Friday, May 4, 2007

5 Responses to “Down On The Ground …”

1. Hot Air » Blog Archive » Friday links: TIME’s 100, Americanizing Shelley, ethanol, bulbs and more Says:
   May 4th, 2007 at 11:28 am

   [...] Crittenden gets down on the ground in Iraq. Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Abscam) gets some deserved blowback from Gen. [...]

2. DemocracyRules Says:
   May 4th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

   Thanks for those STANLEY CUP pics. On the hockey theme, this Spring, the Canadians are showing the Taliban what it feels like to get body checked into the corner boards at 30 miles per hour. Let’s put it this way, when we’re DONE, they won’t have the puck anymore.

3. corndog Says:
   May 4th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

   We’ll dig a trench along the border
   We’ll dig a trench along the bordere
   We’ll dig a channel frae the Solway tae the Tweed
   And we’ll sail away from England wi the SNP.

   Check it out - Scottish National Party rocks the day!

4. RebeccaH Says:
   May 4th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

   I hope Nasim Fekrat knows what he’s doing and keeps himself safe. It’s not as if the idiots couldn’t spoof him on other sites using his real name just as well as his pseudonym.

   Thanks for the Walter Reed links, too, especially for the wives’ articles. When I start thinking there’s no hope, there are always those people who restore my faith in people.

5. major john Says:
   May 4th, 2007 at 10:54 pm

   I’d give Nasim every medal I got in Afghanistan, if I could…people like him are the hope of Afghanistan. Thanks, Mr. C, for helping spread the word about him.

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