Category Archives: War Commentary

Memorial-Day Regret

“I did not serve.”

I didn’t, either. The first year I was eligible for the draft, I had a high number. The draft ended the year after that. If I had been notified of being drafted, I probably would have enlisted in the Air Force (I had been in Civil Air Patrol), though my eyesight would have precluded me from being a pilot. But I agree with his point about how most of the “elites,” including every Democrat president since Carter, were people who avoided service.

Those Damned Jews

Why won’t they let themselves be killed?

[Update a while later]

More from Carolyn Glick.

When you give terrorists money, you get more terrorism.

[Update early afternoon]

Second link is fixed, sorry.

[Late-afternoon update]

A feint by the IDF may have dealt Hamas a major blow.

Let’s hope.

[Saturday-morning update]

Democrats for Hamas.

And should Israel finish off Hamas, once and for all?

Winning a war: What a novel concept, and something that the US has never allowed Israel to do. In fact, it’s something we haven’t done ourselves in eight decades. We don’t even declare them any more. We just pointlessly waste blood and treasure.

[Sunday-morning update]

Why they fight: Hamas’s little-known Nazi-like charter.

[Bumped]