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/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:04:23 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... Time to add a new caveat, because from email it's not clear to some folks (mind you, if you don't read this it won't matter...) Being an open post, people (collectively, the Denizens) other than I post in the H&I. They sign their work (most of the time) - keep that in mind when you want... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:58:23 -0600 Jealous? Of course not! I am simply in awe. Have at it! Rock on! (You know, Rock of the Marne and all) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68920 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68920 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:20:19 -0600 You are soliciting the 3rd ID? Wow, that's quite ambitious, Fuzzy! *ignores the feeble arrows of a jealous Maggie* ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68918 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68918 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:35:10 -0600 You are soliciting the 3rd ID? Wow, that's quite ambitious, Fuzzy! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68917 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68917 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:30:55 -0600 John, I am so happy Gunner is doing ok and that you and SWWBO are doing well after such an ordeal... It was such a gripping story to read... Give Gunner a hug from me... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68916 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68916 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:17:26 -0600 http://www.NovaTac.com You can set it to the very low 0.3 lumen level for walking about without losing your night vision then go to 120 lumens when you're in the target area and need to find the target. Mine will also do Locator or SOS beacons, neither of which you quite needed.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68907 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68907 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:03:55 -0600 I think the world is engaged in a 3-faceted conflict vis-a-vis Islam: 1) A West vs Islam (in general) cultural and political struggle. "West" in this context includes the US, Europe, Japan, Israel, and sometimes Russia. 2) A "Moderate" Islam vs "radical, jihadist" Islamic/Islamist struggle. 3) A Sunni vs Shiite intra-religious struggle. Besides the existential threat that a nuclear Iran would pose to Israel and to American/Western interests in the region, a nuclear Iran under the control of hard-line Islamic Shiite clerics hell-bent on regional hegemony would also pose a serious threat to Saudi Arabia and to "moderate" Sunni states like Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, etc. These countries, especially Saudi Arabia, would probably be compelled to accelerate their own nuclear weapons development programs to provide for their own security and deterrence against Iran's nukes. Unfortunately, most of these states also have very weak, unstable regimes that could be toppled fairly easily by radicals within their own borders who would be emboldened by an American withdrawal from Iraq and the region. As we see with Pakistan, if these nuclear states were to fall into the hands of radicals, they would become sanctuaries for jihadists who would use the relative safety there to hide after they attacked us. With no conventional means of bringing our enemies to "justice", we would be left with only the option of massive retaliatory air strikes, probably nuclear in nature. Our effort in Iraq was not only an action to rid us of the threat that Saddam posed himself, it is an important part of a larger strategy to deal with Iran and militant Islamists by trying to ensure that whatever "moderates" exist in the Muslim world prevail in their intra-Islam struggle with radical jihadists and their culture of death. We (the West) can not co-exist with radical Islamists who have already proved that they will come to our own shores to rain death and destruction upon us. If we have any hope of co-existing with Islam, it is only by ensuring that moderates prevail in the Muslims' own Reformation wars. None of this will be possible if we allow nuclear proliferation to occur within the Muslim world. Just my humble opinion. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68901 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68901 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:09:36 -0600 Glad to hear Gunnar is doing so well. :) [So's Gunner! Dunno this Swede she's talking about] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68897 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68897 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:48:23 -0600 Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told Granted, it's the Guardian, but it seems like a pretty serious article. John and some of the other commenters here have done a lot more serious thinking on proliferation issues than I have; so I'd like to hear what they think.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68893 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68893 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:22:23 -0600 Cool! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68890 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_21_jan_2.html#comment-68890 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:14:07 -0600