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 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_29_jun.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:59:08 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... *************************** A sign of something that looms over the horizon: Putin lays claim to vast chunk of the Arctic. Right of way, territorial claims, and such that result from accessibility gained by receding polar ice are issues that are being argued right now in many places. -- Heh. I know the feeling. The left lane’s the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_29_jun.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_29_jun.html Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:55:42 -0600 Facta Non Verba -- Reminds me of something COL Charlie Beckwith once said when presenting some impact awards in a jungle clearing during the Unpleasantness in Southeast Asia: "It gives me the greatest of pleasure to present you these awards -- especially since they are for heroic actions you could not have performed because none of us are supposed to be here, and therefore you could not possibly have won." Or words to that effect. Hey, it was a long time ago, and besides, I wasn't there... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_29_jun.html#comment-61699 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_29_jun.html#comment-61699 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:06:32 -0600 Funny, I was sick as a dog last night and did not get a chance to finish my post on the middleground inspired by a conversation over at blackfive. That being that I did not buy the "fight them there so we don't fight them here" in its fullest. I was about to post references to other attacks around the area and foiled attacks in Europe and here that pointed out that we were at war and would be attacked here eventually. Guess I'm a day late. However, I do believe we have to defeat them "there", even if we are attacked here because, we cannot kill their ideology here. This is not where it starts or where it is most prevalent. It is there that it started, there that it is prevalent and there that it must die so that we do not have to fight them forever nor more significantly "here". The only other thing that we can say is "Thank G_d, someone had their eyes open over in London." The terribleness of such an attack would have dire consequences in a wide ranging way. Still, I would not give them Iraq, even if they bombed us here. I might advocate something more terrible than the current COIN if we were. Now, we wait and see. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_29_jun.html#comment-61697 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_29_jun.html#comment-61697 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:53:13 -0600