In the military, you are trained first and foremost to think for yourself. Contrary to much public opinion, especially on the Left, Marines are taught to adapt to circumstances and to improvise. And, most certainly not as an afterthought, to obey all lawful orders without hesitation or reservation.
Now we have a [...]
Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category
Good news from one Marine
Posted in Evangelicals, Iraq, Islam on May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Iraq and the genocide of Assyrian Christians
Posted in Iraq, Islam on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a must-read piece by Cranmer. Seems that our Iraqi friends have been busy. When they’re not killing each other, it seems that there is something that can unite Shiite and Sunni: hatred of Christians. The basics from Cranmer:
It is perhaps one of the great ironies of the whole Iraq [...]
“reparations”
Posted in Episcopal Church, Iraq, idiotarians on June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Christian charity prevents me from writing the adjective that first came to mind when I read the following paragraph from, who else, an Episcopal priest:
My prescription for a way out, I freely admit, is based on policy considerations, not necessarily a moral compass. My sense is that the best — or [...]
Stoned in Iraq
Posted in Iraq, Islam on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From George Will’s column today, this little report — which says volumes about what our men and women are fighting for in Iraq:
Last month in Iraq, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), had lunch with three soldiers from his state, one of whom had been working with an Iraqi officer training police cadets. That soldier told Smith [...]
"They want victory"
Posted in Iraq, liberty on January 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today you may find, in an abbreviated version, the heart of the reason why our investment in Iraq will not pay any dividends. Not if one expects a return in the form of a peaceful, truly democratic nation called “Iraq” that is not just a bunch of ethnic and confessional -stans cobbled together with [...]
Feel safer?
Posted in Iraq on December 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The evil dictator whose crimes against humanity caused us to invade the historical fiction that is called “Iraq” has now been put down like the dog he was. There’s a lot of blather about “milestones” and “closure” and “justice being done.” All true, to a certain extent.
Then, Iraq being a nation of [...]
"I will be with the merciful God"
Posted in Death Penalty, Iraq on December 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Thus wrote Saddam Hussein, in an epistle penned when he was convicted in November. According to this story in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Hussein
called on Iraqis not to hate the U.S.-led forces that invaded Iraq in 2003 in a farewell letter posted on a Web site Wednesday, a day after an appeals court [...]
