2007.07.28 Long War // Dhimm Perfidy Roundup
The Beauchamp story: Why we care
Bryan Preston
How important, in the grand scheme of the war, is the Scott Thomas Beauchamp story? By itself, it’s not all that important. But contrary to the opinions of those who can’t be bothered to care about it but nonetheless opine on it for whatever reason, and then mainly to downplay its importance, Beauchamp hasn’t happened all by itself and to those of us who served, its context and trajectory make it very important. ...
Scott Beauchamp's Problems Are Just Beginning
Confederate Yankee
In addition to his short-lived career as a probable fabulist in The New Republic, Scott Thomas Beauchamp's blog has turned up a self-incriminating clear violation of operational security: ...
*** A New Kind of "Chickenhawk"
Baldilocks
When I said yesterday that most of Beauchamp's defenders had sense enough to steer clear of the milbloggers, I had no idea that Columbia Journalism Review's Paul McLeary had run out into the open, bare-a** naked.
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I will finish Lone Survivor and get a review posted eventually but in the mean time don't miss Laughing Wolf's review at Blackfive. There's a link to the proper Amazon page to order a copy on my sidebar if you don't have yours yet.
Below the fold:
- South Korean Christian hostage update: Negotiations continue
- Korean Hostages Threatened by Taliban; America Blamed
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Surge up, U.S. deaths down
Don Surber
I don’t know if the Surge is working or not. I am not in Iraq. But Thomas Frank of USA Today reported that U.S. casualties are at their lowest number in the past year.
Wait a second, I thought more fighting means more deaths. But the chart shows otherwise. How can this be?
Thomas reported: ...
*********** South Korean Christian hostage update: Negotiations continue
Michelle Malkin
The latest: Two lawmakers—one of them a former Taliban member—and several influential elders have joined negotiations with the hardline militia to step up pressure for the release of 22 South Korean hostages, an official said Saturday.
A South Korean presidential envoy, Baek Jong-chun, was scheduled to hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday, an official from the South Korean Embassy in Kabul said. She spoke on condition of anonymity because of embassy policy.
*** Korean Hostages Threatened by Taliban; America Blamed
Hatched by Sachi
According to Robert Koehler of the Marmot's Hole, the Korean press is all set to blame America if the Taliban makes good its threat to kill the 23 (now 22) Korean Christian-evangelists currently held hostage.
The Korean press reasons thus: Kabul is reluctant to negotiate with the Taliban only because of pressure from the West... i.e, the United States and our "lapdog," Great Britian. Since Afghanistan relies upon foreign aid, the press concludes, Afghan President Hamid Karzai dares not offend America or our allies. So it's all America's fault.
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