Novelist Caleb Carr has written a ridiculous op-ed titled “If France wants to succeed against Islamic State, it should study the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.” I didn’t know that Carr is considered a military expert. After reading his piece, I’m stunned that he’s actually paid to give speeches on terrorism. There was almost an eeriness…
In praise of warriors
May 15, 2014
I just saw a tweet by author Joyce Carol Oates. It’s about a movie titled Les Chevaux de Dieu (Horses of God). I’ve never had the urge to read anything by Ms. Oates. Clearly I haven’t missed anything. Ms. Oates suffers from the mental illness of moral equivalency. She compares American warriors to suicide bombers….
White privilege in action
January 16, 2014
I haven’t seen Lone Survivor, the movie about former US Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. But I read LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson’s review of it. In her review, Nicholson says the following. As the film portrays them, their attitudes to the incredibly complex War on Terror, fought hillside by bloody hillside in the Afghan…