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Fuzzybear Lioness here, stepping up while John cares for one of my relatives...
Cdr. Salamander points us to an amazing article in NYT by members of the Brookings Institution who have been visiting Iraq: apparently the tide has turned in Iraq and this might just work. Somebody go check the ledges outside certain politicians' offices... UPDATE: Cassandra delivers some blistering commentary.
In more Iraq news, they have other reasons to celebrate. Be sure to listen to the second video; joy is pan-linguistic (if you listen carefully enough, you'll hear the announcer list the various Iraqi cities and sects that form the backgrounds of the team members).
Powerline points us to a survey of global opinion that contains very good news and kinda bad news. Bad being that Americans are apparently rather gloomy. The surprising thing is how partisan that gloom is--not only do political parties have different "facts," they now apparently have different realities entirely. - FbL
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Heh, Chief Justice Roberts takes a spill, and there's joy in the DU - or, in some cases, sadness that the fall wasn't severe enough. One sub-thread was deleted... one wonders, was it not bloodthirsty enough... or was it *worse*? Double-heh. The scariest part of this thread? These are the people most motivated to vote in the primaries. The right-wing equivalents, too (and c'mon, you know they're out there... though if the Left's characterization of them is to be believed, they're too stupid to manage the voting process...). Anyway - that's the state of Democracy on the Fringe. -the Armorer
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.
Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.
*Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*
The UAVs (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.
I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to. It's also an open trackback, so if someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone"
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