September 2012 - Argghhh!

...to see what the Green-on-Blue/Red-on-Blue force exchange ratio is running at these days... because there comes a point when you have to consider the fact that we're just no longer welcome and it's time to pull pitch and come home. And conduct some serious general-crucifying soul searching and do some well-deserved reputation-blackening needful to really learn the lessons, vice dress them up in fancy words and forget them. Because based on what I read, and what I hear from the deployed...

The Islamists have/are winning. Now they must do something else: govern. Their record there isn't so hot. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, writing in The Daily Beast:

...and strike up "kumbaya" as we sit around the campfire... Now then. Let's take our country back from the people who would use our fear to bind us and take our freedom to enhance their power. Both foreign *and* domestic. It won't take a bullet or a bomb. We won't have to hurt anyone or get hurt. We just have to quit buying their bullshit, and ignore them. If we withdraw our consent, it falls apart. It takes forever, but it works. I know. I'm such a dreamer.

Hat tip to Patterico for this . Words matter. And elections have consequences.

...and then there's that friend who will *always* have your back. I am fortunate to have a few of those, even with Preston having gone ahead to scout the afterlife for us.

BOQ

San Antonio has been fun and too much food. More on what went on here for you who don't follow on Facebook later this week, and more detail for those who do follow. Just about to pull pitch for the long road march back, with a diversion in Austin to pick up a PIAT, and some 4.2" mortar rounds (Aussie, WWII). Here's some plane *** to tide you over this Labor Day. A heritage flight that included two F-86 Sabres flanking an A-10 Thunderbolt II demonstrated the proud heritage of military...