1. Silly Newsweek - Depicting the President as a Hindu God: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/21/newsweek-depiction-obama-lord-shiva-upsets-indians/?test=latestnews 2. Portable eye in the sky - so easy a Talib caveman could do it (and that worries me): http://www.sensefly.com/products/swinglet-cam/ 3. Veteran barred from campus for violent essay: ...There are several addictions in war, but this one is mine. This is what I was trained to do and now I cannot get rid of it; it will be with me for the rest of my life and hurts me that I cannot go back to war and kill again, because I would love too. When I stick my blade through his stomach or his ribs or slice his throat it's a feeling that I cannot explain, but feels so good to me, and I become addicted to seeing and acting out this act of hate, and violence against the rag heads that hurt our country. Terrorists will have nowhere to hide because there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers like me who feel like me and want their revenge as well... Reader Hawkeye asks "How much bayonetting was going on in Mosul in 06-07?": http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-veteran-suspension-20101121,0,6254565,full.story 4. Reader Don G (White Falcons!) asks why we would buy Russian helicopters for the Afghan Air Force: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/12/how_to_buy_a_russian_helicopter?page=0,0 5. Stratfor questions if NATO is inadequate strategically (free Stratfor article but you need to give your email address): http://www.stratfor.com/memberships/176353/analysis/20101121_nato_inadequate_strategic_concept#ixzz161rgsnrv 6. Jim Dao of the NYTimes writes of the grunts: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/world/asia/22grunts.html?_r=1&ref=james_dao
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