No Gun Ri and Bagram
Adirondack Patriot sent us this link to an Albany Times-Union article about the opening of a new archives for documents related to the alleged atrocity at No Gun Ri, Korea in 1950. Adirondack Patriot writes; There is so many things wrong about this. First, a non-historian professor is compiling history based driven by personal interest. [...]

Mayor Bloomberg is an idiot
I just read this, which I saw in the HotAir Headlines. First off, like the Brady Campaign before him, Bloomberg tries to use the Fort Hood shooting to illustrate some point about gun control. During the Clinton administration, the FBI had access to records of gun background checks for up to 180 days. But in [...]

A cartoonist meets our troops
Stephan Pastis, the creator of the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine”, recently went on a tour for the USO in the Middle East along with nine other cartoonists and met our troops. He discovered what most of us here at TAH already know; I have never been thanked by anyone as I was by those [...]

Put your money where your mouth is, Soltz
For some reason, yesterday Jon Soltz at VetsVoice decided he’d give thanks to the troops on Thanksgiving by complaining that some of them are doing too many deployments to our War Against Terror. While I agree, I think it’s a bit disingenuous of an Army Reserve captain still on duty to type an angry missive [...]

Soviet vs. US comparison in A’stan
In this morning’s Wall Street Journal (it may require subscription), Yaroslav Trofimov compares the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the current US operations there; There are major differences between the two conflicts. For one, unlike the isolated Soviet Union, America operates in Afghanistan under a United Nations mandate, part of a coalition of 42 allies. Allied [...]