Op-Ed Contributor- New York Times, Inc.
The Unsentimental Warrior
By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
Published: June 23, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/opinion/24truscott.html

Excerpt:

THERE’S one moment in the Rolling Stone article that led to Gen. Stanley ( Read more... )

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I've heard many of these today; this is the one that always moves me most. I sit here in tears, as I do every time I hear it.

This is from Rennaisance Man, a sadly overlooked movie with Danny DeVito.

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Quote from the Detroit Free Press Letters to the Editor: Earlier this week, just on a whim, I checked Molly Ivins' "Shrub" out of the library. In December of 1999, nearly a year before America's most dubious election, Molly wrote, "For an upper-class white boy, Bush comes on way too hard-ass -- at a guess, to make up for being an upper-class white ( Read more... )

If we're having trouble raising enough troops to do normal troop rotations, will they start drafting again to make up these new troops?

Why is the hanging of Saddam in the Entertainment news? I thought we stopped letting the general public in to executions years ago?

Please add my neighbors' (the ones who fed the outdoor cats while we were gone) grandson to your list of prayer or meditation or whatever ( Read more... )

shimmeringjenny and lordandrei pointed to this article ( Read more... )