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/2010/07/mike_yon.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:59:21 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...still a self-centered windbag who can take decent pictures and who used to be able to tell a good story. I'm going to break that rule now, once, to make a point. Yon is upset with me because I answered questions and provided an honest, informed opinion about his last embed in Afghanistan at the request of several military bloggers. The truth in that case turned out to be a not-so-great thing for Yon, since the people I responded to used the information to question his motives for criticizing General McChrystal. Because I failed to remember the lesson from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and helped bloggers print the truth rather than the legend, I became part of the vast anti-Yon milblogging conspiracy and had to be punished when the opportunity arose. Now, here's the privileged information: Yon will be back in Afghanistan in the future not because anyone believes he has brass balls or because he has been engaged in the verbal equivalent of kissing the ring since General Petraeus was picked to command the operation here. Yon will be back because of the public affairs officers whom he derides. Because we're professionals, because we don't hold grudges (for long), because we work our asses off in the often disappointed hope that opening doors for Yon and those who would violently disagree with him will actually help people understand what's going on. Yon will be back, too, because in the end he needs the crazy monkeys in PA more than we need him. Read the rest here, at Quatto Zone. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:46:33 -0600
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html#comment-108916 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html#comment-108916 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:31:05 -0600 Or, perhaps they are.... Zombie Chickens... 

Buck, buck, buck.... braaaaains!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html#comment-108913 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html#comment-108913 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:37:09 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html#comment-108905 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html#comment-108905 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:13:08 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html#comment-108902 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/07/mike_yon.html#comment-108902 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:35:24 -0600
I guess that's what happens when a chicken-bloggers crosses the Big Dog. {/snerk}

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