american forces

I've been trying to research this Russia-Georgian bruhaha to figure out how exactly it started. The conventional wisdom among both political parties here in the US seems to be that Russia is the bad guy in all this, and Georgia is a poor little kid getting picked on by Putin.

Via Gateway Pundit, so it begins…

In July 2002, Omar Khadr threw a grenade that blew up an American soldier in Afghanistan. 

Adam Kleinheider pointed to an article regarding Jim Webb's views on the Confederacy yesterday and thinks me a hypocrite for not

Yesterday ended the month with the fewest Coalition casualties since nearly the beginning of the war in Iraq.  There were only about 20 combat-related deaths during the whole of May.  Hopefully portending even better things to come, only about five of those deaths occurred during the final two weeks of the month.

The U.S. military death toll hit a seven-month high of 50 on Wednesday — with more than half the losses in Baghdad as American forces wage growing street battles against Shiite fighters.

William Howard Hobbs, in an attempt to attack Barack Obama, inadvertently attacks Sen. John McCain, who has also called for cuts in unnecessary defense spending.

On the day of Senate hearings on Iraq, the Mike Padgett campaign says, “bring ‘em home.”

PADGETT TO PETRAEUS: AMERICANS FED UP, WANT TROOPS HOME
Iraqi society is broken along age-old lines that we can’t fix

Read the whole Christopher Hitchens piece about Bosnia circa 1992-1996 if you need a reminder of the mendacity of the Clintons.  It brought to mind one other question:

Via Perfunction, here is a link to the last American message from the Philippine island of Corregidor before it fell to the Japanese on May 6, 1942. It was sent in Morse code by Cpl.