RedState's Revisionism

RedState, itself a relic-of-a-name hearkening to an era when it implied some sort of Republican authority, offers this bit of advice: Any obstacle can be overcome in war - if you're serious enough about it. A wonderful synthesis of various sources about Romans and boats and Carthage, I felt like I was reading a wikipedia article. But that title kept getting to me and nothing in the meandering narrative ever really got back to the opening:

The situation in Iraq, and the spectre it presents of asymmetrical, guerrilla combat, as well as its requirement of radically different tactics than those to which we are accustomed, has caused doubt to creep into the minds of many regarding whether America is capable of adapting to the changing battlefield, both effectively and quickly enough to be successful in the war we are now engaged in.

There is historical precedent not only for adaptation to a different style of war, but for the radical alteration of scene, setting, and style of fighting.

Perhaps I am missing something, but after we declared Mission: Accomplished, this stopped being a war and started being an occupation? And previous occupations have always gone so well for the occupier? This Second Iraqi War seems like another conjured conflagration like Vietnam so that chickenhawks can claim that they too are the greatest generation.

First Post

I've tried to blog before, but it never lasted more than a few posts. Then I realized that the majority of many blogs are just links to other blogs while adding no meaningful value or content.

My purpose in establishing this blog is partly to document my own personal thoughts and political views. I find that much of the dialogue in the blogosphere consists of right-wingers harping on suicidal muslims as though that were the only extant issue, left-wingers bashing Bush as though describing the varying degrees of the emperor's nakedness was progress, libertarians pretending someone was listening, and self-important youth combing MySpace with no meaningful exchanges or debates between any of the camps. Indeed, the blogosphere has facilitated the balkanization of political discourse, people can stick their proverbial heads in the sand about emergent issues that cannot be packaged into their tidy worldview. This blog is a venue for me to mashup the postings across the political spectrum and inject my own judgments.