We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:38:55 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification This time, I'm stone-cold sober. Bill Arkin on: Demonization and Responsibility Bill: I’ve been making my way through the mail and online comments I’ve received in response to my columns last week. The many e-mails I’ve gotten privately from people serving in the military are, not surprisingly, the most respectful and reflective. Some correspondents are downright indignant, some are sarcastic, and most are hurt by the “mercenary” epithet and my commentary. Moi: Wait. You’re NOT surprised the comments are “…respectful and reflective.”? I thought the benighted souls you described in the first two screeds would not be capable of such... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:01:02 -0600 Your a better man than me, Dusty. 30 seconds in to his latest manure pile I would have been screaming for him to smell what he was shoveling Linked! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html#comment-56332 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html#comment-56332 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:28:38 -0600 There is no question that Vietnam is still an open wound for them, and that they therefore only recognize the worth of fellow veterans, of those who have been through exactly the same experience. Hmmpf. Arkin's projecting -- he must'a been reading Achilles In Vietnam before beddie-byes again. Only reason Vietnam's still an open wound is because Arkin's ideological predecessors inflicted it and they keep sprinkling salt into it. Us Hot-Wet Vets've got a pretty good handle on that worth-recognition thang, and Arkin's worth about three sheets of wet TP -- annoyance value, and precious little else...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html#comment-56327 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html#comment-56327 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:10:03 -0600 Arkin just got beeyitch-slapped again. Excellent. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html#comment-56315 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html#comment-56315 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:23:31 -0600 [rim shot] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html#comment-56312 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/sorry_i_just_ca.html#comment-56312 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:58:43 -0600