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Monday, December 23, 2013

Ah, Time!

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It's nice to have extra time with the kids over break. Mister was enjoying football, and time to play with his XBox and computer chess...

Common Ground

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Rouhani of Iran wants better relations with the West despite Ahmadinejad's tenure. I'm not sure how we can bridge the gap when we ...

With Us and Against Us

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Syria seems to be trying to pull off a triple somersault in foreign affairs. From pariah Axis of Evil wannabe to America's peace partner...

Full Spectrum Amphibious Capabilities

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China has substantial amphibious warfare assets, even though much of that capability resides in civilian assets. The notion that China's...

The Gentler Sex

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Women may generally lack the upper body strength to be in the infantry, but apparently they are perfectly adequate for the post-fighting ...

The War is Responsibly Ended. Long Live the War

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I've long noted that one problem with securing Afghanistan is that no matter how much we pound down the jihadis in Afghanistan, the thre...

Quietly Going for the Win

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I tip my hat to the Obama administration for helping an ally win a war. Colombia has been engaged in a decades-long war against insurgents...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Rules of Engagement

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Strategypage discusses rules of engagement and casualties in Afghanistan. Short story : We are actually pretty careful, but enemy use of...

No Mere Bits of Ribbon

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Lamb was inducted into her school's Academic Society. She got all "A"s. She also said that some in school (who did not mak...

Kill Assad With Kindness

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Assad is waging a war of starvation--and straight killing, of course--against those who support the rebellion. We need to fight fire with wa...

A Long Journey Begins With the First Step

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Strategypage again reminds us that the war on terror is a long war. But failure to fight the war despite it being long could make it a forev...

When Mixing Electricity With Water is Good

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Our Navy has an aversion to non-nuclear subs that approaches vampire fear of sunlight. But they have a point. The reason our Navy likes nu...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Still Voting "Present," I See

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Instapundit notes a rather revealing line from President Obama as he discusses the start of the Obamacare website: He continued: “The fa...

Missing the Point

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I know the whole Duck Dynasty kerfuffle isn't a First Amendment issue. It's more important than that. It's a tolerance issue and...

The Risk of Being Hit By Israel

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People keep talking about the risk and possibility of Israel striking Iran's nuclear facilities and what Iran would do in response. Pond...

No Friendly Fire, Here

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Amazingly--although I had to check my credit card log to make sure--I was not in the blast radius of the Target credit/debit card theft expl...

I Stand Corrected

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Yesterday I mocked an EU high commissioner's boast that Europe is now a provider of security rather than a consumer of security provide...

It Makes a Difference, Now

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We aren't taking chances with our diplomatic facilities, at this point. Hopefully our Marines enjoy their stay in South Sudan. We have...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Thankfully, FDR Lacked Nuance

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We had Assad in our grasp, and we are letting him get away with murder. Assad was on the ropes. But we refused to help the rebels because ...

Release the Ashton!

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You have to love the sense of whimsy that the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy and vice pre...