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/2009/07/scorched_earth.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:16:28 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:49:58 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90888 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90888 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:14:16 -0600 Too true, Beth...

"It is necessary to take such measures that when they believe
no longer, it will be possible to make them believe by force."
  -- Machiavelli

One day we will look back on this, and smash into a parked car.




]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90885 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90885 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:36:28 -0600 (I have) ordered a probe into attempts to quash an investigation into the mass execution of Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan.

1. Attempting to climb onto the tailgate of the in-progress UN-sponsored investigation -- and "Obama administration officials" have already been quoted as saying there are no grounds for a US investigation.

They wanted to hush up the killing of up to 2,000 prisoners in 2001 because it was carried out by the forces of General Abdul Rashid Dostam, an Afghan warlord then on the Central Intelligence Agency's payroll, it said….

2. There were no US troops involved, which eliminates a DoD investigation, and the Justice Department said that the FBI has no jurisdiction because there were no US personnel -- to include CIA -- involved.

3. What happened involved foreign troops on foreign soil -- and there wasn't any hush-up, except in the US MSM. As I've said before, "It made all the papers -- *except* in the US." The only reason the UN is investigating *now* is that the area's finally secure enough to conduct the excavation of the grave site.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90883 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90883 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:15:58 -0600
When you've convinced yourself that you are absolutely right, and the other guys are absolutely wrong, it's easy to go scorched earth.

I hate tribal politics...

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90882 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90882 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:13:05 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90880 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/07/scorched_earth.html#comment-90880 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:47:53 -0600