I’m watching the local news from San Francisco, and it looks like the “peace” protests were more violent than the war…

Not that that’s a bad thing…

I just got here. Perhaps more posting later. Today’s space and war related Fox column is up. Regular readers will recognize it from a post last week.

I’m driving up to San Bruno today. No new posts until tonight. Hope the war’s over before I get there.

Someone on Free Republic has a first-hand report of anti-war protests in Westwood today.

Surprise is one of the most important assets in a successful military operation. One of the reasons that the Normandy invasion was successful was that the Germans didn’t believe that the Allies would invade at that point–it was too well defended and too difficult. Almost up to the last minute, they assumed that the attack would come further to the east.

For months, those speculating on the beginning of the war’s renewal have assumed that it would occur during a new moon. Implicit in the logic of this was that it would occur in the dark of night. It was becoming clear in the past few days that the lunar phase was no longer relevant to the timing of operations, but it occurred to very few that light conditions themselves were irrelevant. This morning’s attack (Baghdad time), which occurred just before sunrise, showed that this was in fact the case, and probably surprised the targets considerably.

We’ll see the degree to which this changes the course of the war shortly, I suspect.

Fidel Castro is famous for his hours-long harangues. I’m listening to the insane bloviations of the double-known-as-Saddam right now, and it seems to go on, and on, saying nothing.

Bush’s announcement lasted a few minutes.

Is it a truism that the less monsters have to say, the longer they take to say it?

I just heard Brian Williams on NBC refer to the targets of tonight’s strikes as “human assets.” I think that, in the interest of truth in advertising, from the viewpoint of both the US and the Iraqi people, scum like that should be referred to as “human liabilities.”

I just heard Brian Williams on NBC refer to the targets of tonight’s strikes as “human assets.” I think that, in the interest of truth in advertising, from the viewpoint of both the US and the Iraqi people, scum like that should be referred to as “human liabilities.”

I just heard Brian Williams on NBC refer to the targets of tonight’s strikes as “human assets.” I think that, in the interest of truth in advertising, from the viewpoint of both the US and the Iraqi people, scum like that should be referred to as “human liabilities.”