365 and A Wakeup
Danjel Bout's blog, 365 and A Wakeup, is probably one of the best blogs I've ever read, and hands down the best military blog I've stumbled across. It's difficult to make war comprehensible, or to explain the grind of war to those of us who are so removed from its simultaneous tediums and emotional devastations and/or triumphs, but somehow Blout manages to cut right through to the core.
His writing style is riveting (seriously -- it reminds me of the contemporary literature I was assigned in college), the content is engaging and often gripping, and his photo albums of life as a soldier in Iraq, as well as snapshots of the Iraqi population and the Iraq landscape in general, are illuminating, to say the least.
You should get yourself familiar with Bout's writing before he lands himself a big fat book deal upon his return to the United States. That way you can say, "I was reading him back when . . . "
Visit Danjel Bout's blog here. To those of you who are already well aquainted with Blout's blog, I can only apologize that it's taken me so long to see the light . . . and why didn't any of you tell me sooner!
Comments
Thanks for the tip, HC.
I need to go there and find out his opinion on PseudoCon (PC, for short) Sen. John McCain's latest effort to tie the hands of he and his fellow servicemen in fighting the terrorists.
Apparently, too many in Congress think we are fighting American citizens over there, and wish to extend to them all the benefits of the Bill of Rights. Murdering Islamic fanatics need to be dealt with. Sometimes this requires tactics as drastic as the college hazing pranks going on at "Gitmo" and "Abu-Grab".
The good-intentioned (WHAT is the road to hell paved with?) intellectuals in the high halls fail to grasp real-world conditions.
I strongly suspect this comes from too much bending over backwards and forwards for ACLUnatics and the NAA(S)CP.
Posted by: Ted | November 28, 2005 11:06 AM