THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Incredibly, more than three months after at least one American combat soldier died unnecessarily and two months after the issue was first raised on the Net, wounded American troops in Afghanistan still are waiting longer than necessary for Medevac helicopters to arrive. Because the Medevacs wear red crosses and, therefore, under Army policy cannot carry defensive [...]

The death of an American soldier due to our Medevac policy: “Specialist Chazray Clark was dying due to politics, and the Army and Air Force pilots are very angry about this.  Chazray’s is not the only such case…It is important to be absolutely clear–this is not about the Dustoff pilots and crews, who are incredibly [...]

Incredible report from Afghanistan correspondent Michael Yon that our Army Medevacs are delayed in getting to their patients (find it in the first four minutes of this Glenn Reynolds interview with Yon). Delayed, that is, because they have to wait for Apache gunship escorts. Not because the landing zones are especially hot but because the [...]

What’s changed since that awful morning? Well, nothing on the Islamic war against the West. It continues. Our all-volunteer military, while benefiting from a new generation of volunteers, remains stressed with two major campaigns and a host of smaller ones. For the first time, the National Guard and Reserves have become continuously- active parts of [...]

So far we only know that the White House and the Pentagon insist that OBL is dead. They got him. Obamalot fulfilled the promise Bush Jr. made in 2001. The American people, wanting it so badly, stood up and cheered. A bit prematurely. Now Obamalot won’t release the pictures. Too gory. Spiking the ball, etc. [...]

I really can’t see why American troops have to risk their lives “for the Libyan people.” Let the Libyan people get off their fat asses and get rid of their own dictator. Why should our guys die to save them? So the Democrats and the Hildabeast can look decisive, tough, etc.? She/they simply look like [...]

Kosovo gunman yells “Allahu Akbar!” Obama says motive mystifying. (Hint: 80 percent of Kosovo is Muslim.) UPDATE:  Mystery solved. Big surprise, right? We can only hope the Pentagon finally learns something (you’d think the Fort Hood massacre might have given them a clue) and starts providing some meaningful security for the troops.

Start with the latest: Army Pvt. Devon J. Harris Died November 27, 2010 serving during Operation Enduring Freedom Age 24, of Mesquite, Tex.; assigned to Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, at Ft. Polk, La.; died Nov. 27 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with a rocket-propelled grenade. [...]

A key revelation of the Wikileaks doc dump confirms what some of us have long believed: “U.S. servicemen and -women are being dispatched to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan where they are fighting Iranian soldiers and assets in a regional war with the Islamic Republic that our officials dare not discuss, lest they have [...]

That Tom Friedman of the NYTimes, what a card. Or as Snoopy-the-Goon says, it takes a village to raise an idiot.