Monday, September 08, 2008

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?


Blogging Tory and nursing home crank Papa Junker can't wait to tout the latest exciting blurb from right-wing milblogger Michael Yon:

Michael Yon: Canadians in Secret Mission

Michael Yon:

The mission was a brilliant success against substantial odds. The British press was justifiably proud of what has been called their largest logistics operation since World War II. These are precisely the sort of large-scale civil affairs/information operations, backed up with military strength and tactical ingenuity, that are required to turn this war around.


So ... um ... we won ... but actually we're just winning ... then again, we're really, really close to finally turning this thing around. I'd swear that's actually going backwards, but maybe that's just me.

Besides, if you can't believe Michael Yon, well, that just means you're not an imbecile.

P.S. You'll notice that the links to Yon's original reporting and his subsequent lame defense have disappeared down the memory hole. How utterly right-wing. How utterly unsurprising.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Just thought I would point out, hat the hydro electric generator which was delivered to Kajaki will go a long way towards bring the capacity to 100%.

Should that happen, all we have to do is guard it, and keep the towers up... And the average Afghan will have something they have not seen since the 70's in southern Afghanistan.

A constant source of electricity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajaki_Dam

The wiki is accurate enough. Sorry no details to expand, but this is one of those key reconstruction efforts which will help Afghans far more then us. The irrigation element is necessary to help Afghan farmers brak away from opium crops (poppies are basically a weed, and grow anywhere with little water and maintence, unlike grain).