"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Damn the torpedoes . . . full speed ahead!
This entry was posted by co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate: I can understand the worry about shoulder-held, surface-to-air missiles being used by terrorists against civilian airliners. It is a real threat and something we should not ignore. As to the Stingers in Afghanistan, one of my sources is confident that their batteries […]
This entry was posted by my co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate: Cindy Sheehan is breaking my heart. In a prior life, when I was a first lieutenant on my first operational assignment, an aircraft from my wing crashed and made the evening news. Unfortunately, it was over eighteen hours before I could […]
This entry was posted by my co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate: I don’t have any trouble calling it “The War on Terrorism” and don’t want to get wrapped around the axle as to what it is and isn’t. For the most part, people accept it is not a “war” in the conventional […]
Last Tuesday, Senator Durbin of Illinois spoke about the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay. People are calling him a traitor for comparing the USA to Nazi Germany and other evil regimes. They say his speech puts our troops at risk and encourages terrorism. They say he hates America. But did he actually compare the […]
In 1972, one photograph played a key role in turning Americans against the war in Vietnam. And now there’s this, from Tal Afar, Iraq: Our soldiers shot this girl’s family at a traffic checkpoint. She was the only survivor. Did our troops intend to do evil? Of course not. But evil was done, and this photograph […]