Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The Army We Have: Revisited (08:53 PM) - On April 14 I posted “The Army We Have,” and related to you the story of Lance Corporal Richard Caseltine, who was shot in the head by a sniper while on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq. The sniper’s round split in…
A New York Times Editorial That Will Live in Infamy (09:49 AM) - The New York Times editors today opine that President Bush’s fuller release of the National Intelligence Estimate was politically motivated and crass. It’s hard to think of a president and an administration more devoted to secrecy than President Bush and…
Bring on the Furies (08:02 AM) - Lunatic Islamists have caused the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Germany, to cancel its performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo, re di Creta. On a hill somewhere, just now, someone is writing an epic about this late-faught war for civilization, and when it…