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"I'd agree that "long range indirect psychoanalysis" is going too far"
From MedTerms.com
Samson may, it is thought, have had antisocial personality disorder. The Bible tells of his lies to his parents, his cruelty to animals, his torching the Philistine fields, his frequent brawls, and his unremitting bragging after killing a thousand men, actions fitting the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder. A person with antisocial personality disorder was once called a sociopath.
I'm just hoping Beuchamp doesn't get to the "killing a thousand men" part of his narrative.
...when a GI Joe was a GI Joe. Kids loved him and nobody examined his psyche? Those were the days...
I feel badly for GI Joe. Who knew an identity crisis was on the horizon? I certainly hope this team can deliver a product which does not offend the sensibilities of all the sensible people out there who might otherwise be insensed. Whew....
Oh, it would also serve everyone well to make sure that our complex, hybrid GI Joe is well-trained in SERE (survival, evasion, resistence, escape) skills. We can't afford to have another one caught and paraded around on television for propaganda purposes. Not good...
Hat tip: Who else?
Not getting the play it should, something important happened in Iraq - France just bought in to success.
Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, heard appeals from Iraqi leaders for French help as he paid a visit to Baghdad that underlines the thaw in Franco-American relations since Nicolas Sarkozy succeeded President Chirac.At this point, we don't need a French Division or two - what we need is strong support to the Iraqi government and its institutions on the international stage.Dr Kouchner, who made his name as a leftist human rights campaigner, arrived unannounced in Baghdad last night on the first trip by a French Minister since Mr Chirac mounted a global front against the 2003 invasion.
FM Kouchner holds a lot of weight with many in the IC who are at best on the sidelines WRT success in Iraq. We should smile and say thanks.
Will General Petraeus deliver his report to Congress on September 11, and if so, whose idea was that?
Update: From today's White House press gaggle:
Q And the second one is, there's been some confusion about the whens, hows, wherefores of the Crocker-Petraeus testimony to Congress. Can you say when they're going to testify before Congress and under what conditions?MR. JOHNDROE: Yes. General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will testify in open hearings on the Hill. Administration officials are reaching out to Hill leadership today to discuss with them the potential dates for that testimony. Given the tight schedule leading up to September 15th and the congressional recess with Rosh Hashanah coming up, the likely dates for testimony are September 11th and 12th.
Q That's really just because of the tight schedule and not because it's September 11th?
MR. JOHNDROE: That's right. Congress is not -- as of right now, based on the last we checked, Congress is not in session because of the Rosh Hashanah holiday, very much the week leading up to that Saturday, September 15th.
Still doesn't answer the question, though.
If you screw up badly enough in journalism, sometimes a journalist or two starts working on you. Brendan Miniter whacks the New Republic.
Update: Via Hot Air, some pushback from INDC and Captain's Quarters. I'd agree that "long range indirect psychoanalysis" is going too far, and that the more important issue is the truth of the articles and the system issues that caused the article to show up in the first place.
Steeljaw Scribe has three posts connected with the loss of a VAW-120 Navy E-2 Hawkeye off the North Carolina coast . The first reports
The Navy gave up its hunt for three missing aviators this afternoon and declared them deceased after searching the ocean off North Carolina for them since Wednesday night.As SJS says, "A tough, heartbreaking business this can be."
The second is a brief remembrance of those young men.
The third describes a VAW/VRC community Memorial Fund as a means of honoring fallen aviators by taking care of their survivors.
Guy in Army ROTC at Princeton gets invited to hang out for the summer with an alumnus. Guy's blogging about the trip.
Said alumnus is running military ops in Iraq...
Well, this drawing has a passing relationship with the topic discussed here, though I doubt she saw much sea duty...
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