Word to the wise
Don’t claim to be a Marine … unless you really are one. As this story notes, one guy had to find that out the hard way:
J-Pod on fighting modern day wars
John Podhoretz, opining in today’s NY Post, wonders if we’re “too nice” to win wars anymore. He writes:
A victory in the war on terror
Let’s hear it for U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly! Via AP:
Jeff Jacoby on the “chickenhawk” argument
I wrote about the “you’re a chickenhawk so you can’t comment” argument back in August of last year, but am revisiting it again thanks to a great opinion piece on the subject written by Jeff Jacoby in today’s Boston Globe. He brings some additional points to the table that are worth mentioning:
Showing gratitude to our troops for helping evacuate US citizens in Lebanon
This past week we’ve seen an embarassing amount of public ungratefulness shown by US citizens in Lebanon complaining about the evacuation process (for starters ‘why should we have to pay the US gov’t for our evacuation?’ and ‘if you’re gonna bring food for us, bring it for others!!!!’ and ‘what’s takin’ you so long?’). I hope the folks complaining loudest about the ‘slow’ evacuation process to the media don’t take it out on our fine military men and women helping to evacuate them, but in case it has, Malkin has up a great post expressing MUCH thanks to US military servicemen and women who are taking part in the evacuation of Americans from Lebanon.
Snoozepaper of record: Bush not concerned with fighting terror, but instead expanding pres. powers
No finer example of Bush Derangement Syndrome can be found today in the media than this piece from the editorial page of the NY Times. Guess what? They’ve finally come out and admitted what their liberal cohorts have been saying or implying for years: Bush isn’t not interested in fighting terror, but instead has used 9-11 to feed his raging desire to increase Presidential power: