Bullets fly fast: Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army. I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to
If you want to see the media’s ability to “frame” a story according to its handy all-purpose and supremely intellectually lazy template, you need look no further than the opening remarks by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in this clip, an interview
Jaw-dropping court testimony by Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, singlehandedly undermines Obama administration efforts to ignore the dangers of Islamism and jihad. Shahzad’s forthright statement of purpose stands out because jihadis, when facing legal charges, typically save their
After a kerfuffle regarding an ill-advised tweet, Octavia Nasr has been dismissed from CNN. The tweet in question read, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” [youtube gau2O6FPW6A
Bangkok, May 2010: Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place. She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons. One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate
A young woman’s mother dies recently, and a few weeks later, suffering from severe depression, she herself dies, falling off a cliff in California in an apparent suicide. In the old days of responsible journalism, publications didn’t report suicides unless
In a piece published today about Sebastian Junger’s “Restrepo,” the Afghanistan War documentary released over the weekend, Bill Cody at Rope of Silicon admits (accidentally?) what we all knew anyway: that the Sundance Film Festival is all about the leftist
One of the things the Left is particularly adept at is changing the subject, deflecting any serious discussion of the subject at hand — in this case, the very real, post-9/11 national-security dangers of “immigration” across our southern borders —
It is not true that General McChrystal demonstrated insubordination (as too many commentators held), and if we remember the long train of events launched in the fall of 2008 and concluding in McChrystal’s dismissal, we will readily understand that. First,
As the citizens of the United States await President Obama’s new Commander of U.S. and NATO Forces in Afghanistan to make his mark, one can only imagine the new direction that will be taken by this battle proven leader –
On the heels of an abysmal unemployment report, striking clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (CA) are threatening to put an even bigger damper on the nation’s already-sagging economy. When members of the International Longshore
As General Petraeus takes command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, he needs to address five fundamental areas. First, he must increase the tempo with which we are training and delivering qualified Afghan National Army and Police units
Tomorrow night, WHYY, an affiliate of PBS in Philadelphia, is slated to show a 35-minute original documentary entitled “The Surge: The Untold Story,” about the 2007 troop surge in Iraq. They were scheduled to run a live panel discussion with
—– Watch the whole video, especially the warm and fuzzy last shot, but here’s Stone’s killer quote: The Cold War became the war against terrorism and continues to this day. We have two wars in Iraq. One in Afghanistan and
Many Country Music fans first real exposure to Sheryl Crow came with the release of “Picture,” a duet she sang with Kid Rock, in 2002. That was a strange pairing to say the least, because it put a self-proclaimed “Cowboy”
In 2006 Turkish movie “Valley of the Wolves: Iraq” was a great hit in Europe and almost made it to the US theatres. Since the flotilla incident in May 2010, the movie has been constantly playing on Turkish television becoming
Tomorrow, July 1st, I have the honor of co-hosting Move America Forward’s 3rd Annual Troopathon to raise money for care packages for our troops. The eight-hour broadcast, which will air live across the World Wide Web, will stream here at
Tomorrow, July 1st, I have the honor of co-hosting Move America Forward’s 3rd Annual Troopathon to raise money for care packages for our troops. The eight-hour broadcast, which will air live across the World Wide Web, will stream here at
Tomorrow, July 1st, I have the honor of co-hosting Move America Forward’s 3rd Annual Troopathon to raise money for care packages for our troops. The eight-hour broadcast, which will air live across the World Wide Web, will stream here at
So, in that Rolling Stone piece that brought down General McCrystal, the writer spent three weeks with the troops. What did he find? Trash talk directed at bureaucrats. Yeah, I know. Here’s a fact: if someone followed me around for
Beginning in June 2007, filmmaker Tim Hetherington and war correspondent Sebastian Junger embedded themselves with a U.S. Army platoon in the truly God-forsaken Korengal Valley of Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. A companion piece to Junger’s new book War, Restrepo
Prosecutors have released potentially explosive evidence against an NYPD officer on trial for beating a man with his baton.
Barack Obama’s problem with top Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McCrystal is one of his own making. McCrystal and his staff – in a much-ballyhooed article in Rolling Stone set to be published on Friday – are reportedly disdainful and disrespectful
Near Lumpini Park, Bangkok. (May 2010): Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand. As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not
Al-Qaida’s U.S.-born spokesman, Adam Gadahn, has repeated the militant group’s conditions for peace with America. Among other things, he’s calling on President Obama to withdraw his troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and end support for Israel.
