03-20-2003, 02:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-20-2003, 02:17 AM by Occhidiangela.)
No, not tanks rolling, I refer to
THE ATTACK OF THE TALKING HEADS!!!
Just got back into town this evening, from a short vacation in the Hill Country of Texas, out near Fredericksburg, and I flipped on the Telly.
Surfed about 15 channels that are all about news and such.
The talking heads have left the line of departure and are assailing the airways with "expertise" and punditry galore.
Retired VADM McGinn, ex Sec Def Weinberger, a retired master sergeant who was in on the first Delta Force unit, and a host of others are firing away with all of their collective wisdom.
Oh joy, every guy selling ads for CNN et al will be raising the rates. Forgive me if I miss Ernie Pyle and Bob Galloway.
In other news, a troop movement across the Kuwaiti border:
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Seventeen Iraqi soldiers have given themselves up to U.S.-led forces in northern Kuwait, U.S. military sources confirmed on Wednesday.
No further details were immediately available.
Huzzah???
Or should we say . . . seventeen down, a few hundred thousand not ready to cash in their chips just yet?
Some friends of mine ended up on Karuh Island during the 1991 edition of the Gulf War, where they found some Iraqi soldiers who were most willing to hang up their cleats: their officers had abandoned them, and they had not eaten in four days, had not had water for two.
I wonder what it feels like to be the average Iraqi lance corporal right now. I have a hunch that it is . . . no picnic. (No further references to the Rocky Horror Picture Show will be made in this post.)
THE ATTACK OF THE TALKING HEADS!!!
Just got back into town this evening, from a short vacation in the Hill Country of Texas, out near Fredericksburg, and I flipped on the Telly.
Surfed about 15 channels that are all about news and such.
The talking heads have left the line of departure and are assailing the airways with "expertise" and punditry galore.
Retired VADM McGinn, ex Sec Def Weinberger, a retired master sergeant who was in on the first Delta Force unit, and a host of others are firing away with all of their collective wisdom.
Oh joy, every guy selling ads for CNN et al will be raising the rates. Forgive me if I miss Ernie Pyle and Bob Galloway.
In other news, a troop movement across the Kuwaiti border:
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Seventeen Iraqi soldiers have given themselves up to U.S.-led forces in northern Kuwait, U.S. military sources confirmed on Wednesday.
No further details were immediately available.
Huzzah???
Or should we say . . . seventeen down, a few hundred thousand not ready to cash in their chips just yet?
Some friends of mine ended up on Karuh Island during the 1991 edition of the Gulf War, where they found some Iraqi soldiers who were most willing to hang up their cleats: their officers had abandoned them, and they had not eaten in four days, had not had water for two.
I wonder what it feels like to be the average Iraqi lance corporal right now. I have a hunch that it is . . . no picnic. (No further references to the Rocky Horror Picture Show will be made in this post.)
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete