It’s All About The O
Hate to say I told you so. Here’s Rolling Stone’s “Hot” love for Small Wars Journal. via SWJ:
Hot Intelligence: ‘Small Wars Journal’
The Military’s New Must Read
Want to know how Obama is going to fight the war in Afghanistan? Then check out Small Wars Journal, an online magazine that provides a crash course on asymmetric warfare. Get schooled in fighting Somali pirates. Find out what Malcolm Nance, a former Navy interrogation instructor, thinks about waterboarding (”a torture technique, Period”). When David Kilcullen, special adviser to Gen. Petraeus, live-blogged the Iraq surge, he did it for SWJ.
Contributions include who’s who of the sharpest minds in uniform, regardless of rank. “You’re judged purely on the strength of your intellectual argument,” says John Nagl, a retired lieutenant colonel who helped write the Army’s Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Run by two former Marines, the site is a must-read for military insiders. “We must be doing something right,” says co-founder Dave Dilegge, “because we get people calling us Attila the Hun warmongers one day and counterinsurgency-loving tree-huggers the next.”
It’s not exactly a “new” military must-read. And while it’s nice to see Kilcullen, Petraeus and the Iraq surge get a nod, if Obama’s fighting in Afghanistan, then I’m pretty sure that means Bush defeated the Iraqi insurgency.
Dilegge, though I don’t think it was his intention, puts a fine point on it with his observation about the fickle zephyrs and gales of public opinion.
OK, all counterinsurgency chic lefty bashing aside, this high-profile pop-culture acclaim is overdue. If this is the way the military gets mainstreamed into society, bring it on. Now here’s more of what you know you want, Rolling Stone’s other big “hot” pick, Lady Gaga:
Not bad, but the bubbles and fright wig shot is hard to top.
Vodkapundit did the biometrics on the hips, confirmed the sheila is not a dude. Further study shows a reassuring lack of muscle definition, plus gender-appropriate hand size.
Well-spotted, Vodkapundit, you don’t get hips like that on a guy. I know there are guys who wish they could fill a hot little pink off-the-shoulder and pretty much off-the-chest number the way she does:
But the reassignment sciences just aren’t that advanced. Anyway, the honker measurements suggest a lack of plastic surgery and a degree of comfort with her natural appearance. Fright wigs notwithstanding.
Though when you look at this next one, you can see where people got the idea she’s a bloke.
Well, the celeb wallpaper site said that was Lady Gaga but I dunno. Kinda looks like a fan. Who’s a bloke.
Topics: Obama, media, military, sex
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:05 am on Saturday, May 30, 2009
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May 30th, 2009 at 8:50 am
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May 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I am proud… DAMNED PROUD… that you have made the effort and shown us here what a true professional reporter will go to when researching the facts behind an issue of great moment. I am especially pleased that you have chosen not just to publish your conclusion, but to show your work as well.
Of course, as you note, there is still a smidgen of a scintilla of a jot of a doubt about your conclusion.
Therefore I suspect you will have to go the distance for the team here and acquire some first hand knowledge of the subject under examination. Please do so and report back.
I realize that the danger here is, as always, the situation in which one actually does acquire first hand knowledge especially with a subject as persuasive as we have here.
You will recall that the great investigative reporter Joe E. Brown, disguised as Osgood Fielding III in “Some Like It Hot ” was confronted with the “facts:”
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man.
Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
It may well be that in such a situation, Jules, you may indeed have to “take one for the team.” If so, we will be looking for “full disclosure.”
May 30th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Ahhh… England, where every young man can dream of becoming a Queen…
Sigh.. :)