July 2006 Archives

Just so you know, the last line here explains why there haven't been any postings lately.

As they say in New Mexico. Or, as the Marines say in Ramadi, where an old idea is being replayed: "Be polite, be professional and have a plan to kill everyone you meet." Viz.:

In three years here the Marine Corps and the Army have tried nearly everything to bring this provincial capital of 400,000 under control. Nothing has worked.

Now American commanders are trying something new.

Instead of continuing to fight for the downtown, or rebuild it, they are going to get rid of it, or at least a very large part of it.

Yessir: We had to destroy the village to save the village. Which takes me back to VDRSVP, a leetle sumzing Norman O. Mustill and I put together nearly 40 years ago during the Vietnam War, in 1969 to be precise: