AlAnbar Lost Politically(not)

via TheAutralian

Sunnis turn on old al-Qa'ida allies Ned Parker and Mohaned al-Kubacy September 13, 2006 SUNNI leaders in al-Anbar province, long a bastion of resistance to the American presence in Iraq, are urging the American military to arm tribes against al-Qa'ida, which is viewed as the most powerful force in the area.

Mr Samarrai said that leaders from al-Anbar had made several proposals to the Americans, including arming the tribes to fight al-Qa'ida, providing teams of bodyguards for tribal leaders, clerics and politicians who opposed al-Qa'ida and making an intense recruitment push to build an indigenous army and police force.

and what do people living in the center of the administrative district comprising 75% of the land mass in AlAnbar think??

The Blog of War - Another Plug

Jay Nordlinger gives us a plug in his latest Impromptu up at National Review Online:

A “milblogger” — a military blogger — alerted me to a new book, The Blog of War, giving us “front-line dispatches from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.” A cutesy title, but one that had to be hard to resist. I can’t tell you anything about this book, not having seen it. But I can tell you that milbloggers have been invaluable these last several years. We complain about the MSM? Yes, but we don’t have to be hostage to them, either.

News of Afghanistan

News is up!

"The News is at least THIS important."

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UPDATE: And another farewell.

Port Security legislation -sorta

The U.S. Senate passes a Port Security bill. But...see here.

Why do I hear music in the back of my mind? Something from Kansas?

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind