So much for hating us for our freedom. As much as we hear about Middle Easterners hating Americans, they obviously don’t have a problem with our television, music and fashion:
MTV Arabia, a new 24-hour free satellite channel, will begin broadcasting in Arabic across the Middle East on Nov. 16. The Viacom-owned network’s flagship show, Hip […]

What you missed if you didn’t read today’s The New York Times:

In a story detailing problems with the Bush administration push for Medicare enrollees to utilize private plans for the new drug benefit comes this nugget:

In March, Sierra Health Services ended drug coverage for more than 2,300 Medicare beneficiaries with H.I.V./AIDS, saying they had not […]

[Hotel Tango: The D-Ring]

I completely agree with Abu Muqawama:
Abu Muqawama has always been a big fan of the late French intellectual Raymond Aron. Aron, writing in his newspaper column for Le Figaro, believed it was the responsibility of the public intellectual to make a careful study of the issues at hand — economics, military strategy, etc. — before […]

The FBI-California Highway Patrol Joint Counter-terrorism Task Force has asked right-wing-nut David Horowitz’s organization, the David Horowitz Freedom Center (pride is a sin, Dave), to provide them with a copy of their video, “What Every American Needs to Know About Jihad,” to train their officers.
You can view the ridiculous video here. Then head over […]

The Tank has posted an editorial photograph from The New York Post making fun of Barack Obama’s discussion of sending troops to rout al-Qaeda in Pakistan:

I suppose no one remembers Bush’s inability to name Pakistan’s president before he was elected:
Andy Hiller, a political reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston . . . asked Bush to name […]

First off this morning, I’d like to point you to abu muqawama’s comments on a critique of Gen. Petraeus, our current commander in Iraq, by Andrew Bacevich in The New Republic.
A couple of his comments that I completely agree with (and many of which I’ve posted here about before):

[T]he big problem, as Bacevich sees […]

Great column by John Noonan at The Daily Standard:
FOR NEARLY 200 years, cadets at the United States Military Academy have been guided by the “Thayer System,” a rigid structure of unyielding regulation, austere discipline, fierce loyalty, and strong emphasis on math, science, and engineering. The method is calculated to produce Army officers of the highest […]

Now this is what I’m talkin’ ’bout.
Great guest post over at The Gunner’s World by Col. Michael Visconage explaining the role of field historians. He then goes into the current situation in Iraq, from his unique perspective.
My job as the Multi-National Corps Iraq Historian is to collect as much data for the military archives as […]

Well, no wonder Karen Hughes has sucked as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs:
Threatened abroad, U.S. diplomats have been hit with unprecedented security restrictions, confining many to fortress-like compounds and frustrating Bush administration efforts to get out and counter anti-U.S. sentiment.
Lockdowns and prohibitions on travel now apply to Americans posted to […]