You can read Gen. McChrystal’s apology in full here at the Washington Independent. No “clarification” that I expected last night after seeing the AP writeup of McChrystal’s Rolling Stone interview disrespecting the Obama administration. “It was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened,” McChrystal emailed reporters instead. “Throughout my career, I have [...]

I’m waiting to hear that either the AP or Rolling Stone misquoted Gen. McChrystal and his staff here, because openly insulting Adm. Eikenberry and disrespecting the vice president and Amb. Holbrooke is uncharacteristically bush-league. From the AP write-up of a forthcoming Rolling Stone piece on McChrystal that I have not read: If Eikenberry had the same [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 513-10 June 21, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. James P. Hunter, 25, of South Amherst, Ohio, died June 18 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 512-10 June 21, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Pfc. Benjamin J. Park, 25, of Fairfax Station, Va., died June 18 at Zhari district, Kandahar, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 511-10 June 21, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Nathan W. Cox, 27, of Fremont, Calif., died June 16 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained June 14 when insurgents attacked his [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 510-10 June 21, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died June 16 at North Kunduz, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 161st [...]

I fooled you! All of this time you thought I was here blogging I was at the dentist getting a cavity filled for the first time since I was in elementary school. And let me tell you something that you probably already know: your numb lips, chin and dead-fish-like tongue feel fascinatingly alien. Stroking my [...]

I come now to praise Michael Cohen’s clear-sightedness: It’s hard to imagine a more effective response to al-Qaida’s hateful ideology than the recognition that its warped interpretation of Islam is a distinctly minority view and one rejected by America’s Muslim community. Even more so, embracing U.S. Muslims is perhaps the clearest possible sign that America [...]

Villagers in Gizab in Afghanistan had enough of the Taliban in April, Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports. Read his excellent piece about how U.S. military commanders and diplomats in Afghanistan view the effort as a “milestone” (one calls it “perhaps the most important thing that has happened in southern Afghanistan this year,” yeesh) and want to figure [...]

Via i09, Adam McKay from Anchorman looks like he may in fact direct the film adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys. If you’re a comic book fan who isn’t reading The Boys, rectify this mistake. It’s a fantastically explicit story that dares to ask why superheroes wouldn’t be as pathetically incompetent as [...]