Myths About Afghanistan
Victor Davis Hanson on whether Afghanistan is really the "graveyard of empires ..."
Michelle Malkin has an interesting piece on the power outage in Queens. They have been without power for six days and nights, and business is bleeding. The story on the effects to local economy will be a long time being told. But there is this little nugget of gold at the end of her post:
I hope DHS is paying attention.
U.S. targets are so soft that it really is worrisome. Now we can add one more soft target to the list, if Hezbollah is watching and listening. Any future Hezbollah attack in the U.S. might not just involve contamination of drinking water supplies for large population centers, destruction of infrastructure such as buildings and bridges, disruption of financial centers like New York and Charlotte, or the myriad of other pernicious and dastardly things that they could perpetrate.
What if Hezbollah hits power grid infrastructure for the 25 largest population centers in the U.S.? Is this an issue not only for DHS but for U.S. utilities as well? U.S. utilities protect generation assets with security forces commensurate with the investment of resources. What about the transmission assets?
On July 23, 2006 at 2:11 am, monk said:
what if it’s the killer bees?
On July 23, 2006 at 3:23 pm, Herschel Smith said:
Mr. monk (sic),
Thanks for dropping by and saying “what (sic) if it’s the killer bees?” However, monk (sic), since your response does not pertain in the least to the post, I am concerned that you might have been partying with Barry. Barry is doing some strong stuff over at his house.
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2006/07/07/man-on-dope-trash-talks-marines-in-ramadi/
I just cannot figure out if you are a Monk, in which case you certainly should not be doing dope, or Adrian Monk (in which case you probably wouldn’t have misspelled your name), or the more likely scenario in which you are a naysayer hiding behind a screen name and who is too scared to share your real name with us. Which is it, Monk, or Adrian, or monk (sic)?
monk (sic), it might even be that you do not believe that killer bees have anything to do with Hezbollah or U.S. infrastructure or power transmission structures, systems and components. It might be that you were trying to make a sarcastic, clever or funny remark. Well, monk (sic), its okay. Don’t take it too hard. You can try again later. You should put a little more thought into it next time though, monk (sic). In fact, if you scroll through the posts I have made, you will see that I am trying to start a hate mail page. You could even contribute to it, monk (sic)!
Listen monk (sic). In the mean time monk (sic), do not bring any protest songs, long hair or dope to The Captain’s Journal (I still don’t know whether you have been partying with Barry — you know, ‘We all live in a yellow submarine’ and all that stuff). We don’t allow that stuff here, monk (sic).
But come back soon monk (sic), and you can make more remarks and sign your name monk (sic). We were certainly íntellectually enriched by your remark “what (sic) if its the killer bees?” I know that I was — monk (sic).