We Are Winning???

We are quickly approaching the point at which more and more soldiers and Marines will be asked to support men who fought with and sometimes killed their brothers-in-arms. That is not an easy thing to do, even in the aftermath of a conventional war, and it is far more difficult when fighting an insurgency. However, it is absolutely necessary. We will be asked to fight the strategy of our enemy rather than his fleeting fighters. We will have to defeat Al-Qaeda's attempts to disrupt and derail the efforts of the population to end the violence. We will have to spend more time away from our big, safe bases, and more time getting to know the local leaders- the leaders that can tell their men to join the Iraqi forces and forsake the insurgency. We will spend more time with their people- the people that have known the insurgents since they were children. From Iraq blogger, Acute Politics. Read this post and I hope you read the Commentary piece on how we plant to Fight and Win the War in Iraq. The entire post at Acute Politics is that article in practice.

IN PRAISE OF DENNIS MILLER

I think he is the most pompous and ponderous so called comedian on the planet. He uses literary references that almost nobody "gets," he has no punch lines, just punch paragraphs, and he has a superior than thou attitude. That said, with nothing to do the other night I pulled up his Las Vegas act on HBO on demand. Wow. He was funny, most of his punch lines were just that, and his political commentary, when he'd do it, was sharp. He still makes obscure literary references, but he held the number down to two. If you have HBO On Demand, take a look; it's free and worth every penny.