“This is a very big deal, and the Army has blown it, big time.”

I have to agree. Michelle Malkin has a great roundup of the Pentagon’s crackdown on milblogs.

It’s one thing to worry about OPSEC. It’s another to shoot yourself in the foot in the battlefront that a) matters most and b) we’re losing: the media.

Desires of the Human Heart, Part 2

Don’t miss Michael Yon’s latest dispatch from Iraq.

There is a side to this war that cannot be captured in any kind of statistics. The importance of personal relationships among the soldiers and their Iraqi counterparts cannot be captured in quick stories or numbers. A huge part of this war comes down to personal relationships and respect. It’s not about killing. That’s only a small part of it. It’s about building: building bonds that build societies. Giving Iraqi civilians a real alternative to those who create and then flee from civil havoc. Terrorists don’t pick up the trash on the way back from blowing up the electrical stations.

Slippery Slope Watch

While Apalachia and parts of Europe rejoice, somewhere Rick Santorum is shaking his head and saying, “I told you so.”