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This, because the author sent an autographed copy. (Along with other things - more later.)
Ever start eating then realize how hungry you were? I needed a break from current political non-fiction and realized it only when I'd flown through the first 100 pages of this.
This looks good too:
It is odd how American journalists are not reporting this war from the side of American strategic officers and American frontline units, whose officers and men are now enjoying their own professional capacities and daily successes.Reading the blogs of our own military guys in the field is infinitely more satisfying to intellectual curiosity than reading (or hearing) the ordinary empty droning of journalists. Compared to bloggers in America, American journalists seem like amateurs; compared to military professionals on the battlefield, journalists (whatever their age) seem like undisciplined college kids. When one compares these professions as professions, the military profession to journalism, journalism really is dropping fast — and not only because of Dan Rather.
Though I'm not sure "odd" is the right word in that first paragraph, unfortunately. And though I'm leery of all predictions for the future of the Middle East I say go and read the whole thing, via Roger's.
