Critics of Israel’s tactics in South Lebanon have been railing against their “inability” to destroy Hizb’allah’s military might. While this might be true, al Bawaba points out that the military “destruction” of the Hizbies might not actually be the end…
I cannot see the logic that would motivate Israel to concede to allowing U.N. blue hats on the Lebanese border as a sufficient resolution to the current crisis, and so I can only view Anan and Blair’s “plan” as global…
May you live in interesting times. –Supposed ancient Chinese curse “Watching” the events in Lebanon unfold on the newswires, I ran through an extremely odd combination of feelings at work today. I felt detached, almost entirely removed from the world…
The Jerusalem Post has two riveting accounts of Operation Entebbe posted commemorating the 30th anniversary of the IDF’s raid on Uganda’s Entebbe Airport: one from the soldiers’ point of view, the other from the hostages’. If you’ve never read the…
I woke up this morning and checked CNN.com only to see the following: Wowsers. CNN has the developing details. This is huge. UPDATE: Captain Ed and Mark in Mexico have further details and analysis. My first impression is that, while…
“Image of the day”, indeed! Check out the humorous photographic evidence of a fire suppression test gone horribly awry at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Witness what happens when a scheduled 15 second burst of fire-retardant foam takes more than 20…
In the wake of the Stephen Colbert Whitehouse Correspondents dinner kerfuffle, I was cruising the Internet[s] looking for prior precedent for comedians excoriating a sitting president to his face when I stumbled across a draft version of Al Franken’s routine…
As previously noted in this space, I’m 4-F, so I have precious little chance of being allowed to enlist in the US military, let alone get drafted. Fortunately, a few right-leaning bloggers have formally constituted the 101st Fighting Keyboardists (F.K.s.).…
Remember the Mystery Stealth Boat of Doom Iran “tested” a couple of weeks ago, as well as the Magical Radar-Evading ICBMs of Ill Portent and the Super-Cavitating Super Rocket Torpedo of Super Islamic Doom? Well, it turns out that all…
Strategy Page argues that we should be watching trendlines, not headlines. Sounds like what we “neocons” have been arguing for a long time – too bad our “bleeds/leads” media can’t be bothered to make similar observations. Observing trends doesn’t sell…
