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Michael Yon: The Art of the End of War
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... courteous people I have ever met./ppSSG Foust explained that after the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003, his group spent long periods patrolling in the Sinjar mountains in Nineveh where many Yezidis live. He said there was no fighting with Yezidis and that the Yezidis were so friendly that they continuously invited the soldiers to eat with them in the villages. Foust said that though the soldiers brought along Army food, they didn t really need it because the Yezidis kept them st read ...
Michael Yon: The Art Of The End Of War
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Published: 01 December 2008
Zabul Province, Afghanistan
Michael Yon
(Travel from Iraq to Afghanistan, and needless bureaucratic delays, nearly killed this dispatch. Though many photos were made during the recent journey in Iraq, none are included here. Bureaucracy unrelated to our combat forces continues to steal frontline photos and words from your screen. We seem to have two Armies: One Army of true soldiers moving mountains to win wars, while the other Army does everything possible to break the machine while playing soldier. Though ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/3/2008
Gates of Vienna —
... The Art of the End of War by Michael Yon …Al Qaeda was handed a vicious defeat in Iraq, and it can be said with great certainty that most Iraqis hate al Qaeda even more than Americans do. Al Qaeda can continue to murder Iraqis for now, but al Qaeda will be hard pressed to ever plant their flag in another Iraqi city. The Iraqi army and police have become far too strong and organized, and the Iraqis will eventually strangle al Qaeda to death. I still find people in America, Nepal, Thailand, ...
In the Middle of a Perilous Peace
Flopping Aces —
... Iraqi children I photographed when locals told me al Qaeda did it. This would not explain the Iraqi children al Qaeda has blown up, or the Afghans and Pakistanis killed by al Qaeda, or the Africans who are murdered by the same cult of serial killers. Did those decapitated children in the Iraqi village even know where America or Israel are? What about the Shia mosques they destroyed in Iraq? Were they occupying Saudi Arabia or supporting Israel?
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Michael Yon has recently been very optimistic about the current path to ...
Iraq at the End of the Surge
Winds of Change.NET —
... Michael Yon did, indeed, publish an upbeat report on the same day called The Art of the End of the War. I encourage everyone to read it. Yon's work is always accurate and informative, and this time is no exception. Richard Everett is right to point out that my piece was gloomy while Yon's piece was not, but Iraq is complex. Iraq produces good news and bad at the same time. ...
CNN's MRAP Story Feasts on Ignorance in Effort to Demonize Marine Corps
Confederate Yankee —
... run, but it would have crippled the Marines ability to take the fight to the enemy and put the insurgency on the defensive. MRAPS and similar vehicles have a time and a place, as does every weapons system, but they are not nearly mobile enough to be as useful in an offensive war against a lightly armed and mobile enemy as are the lighter and less armored HMMWV. Of course, you don't have to take my word for it. Even Army soldiers used to more heavily armored equipment find the MRAP too heavy and slow : And so we rolled out of FOB Falcon in those giant MRAPs. It seems that most ...
Mideast News & Views
Jules Crittenden —
... : “Iraq at the end of the surge” … fears a new surge when the Americans leaves. Michael Yon in Baghdad : “The Art of the End of War” … yes, the war is over. ...
Perfectly Reasoned Justification for the Murder of Pvt. Long
Flopping Aces —
... movement- building mosques, hospitals, schools, infrastructure, protecting innocent Iraqis, and handing out candies, school supplies and soccer balls to Iraqi kids:
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An Iraqi officer near Sinjar told me that recently a group of perhaps twenty “jihadists,” many of them foreign, descended on a Nineveh village. The Iraqi officer said the terrorists killed some adults and two babies. One baby they murdered was 15 days old.
Michael Yon:
I still find people in America, Nepal, Thailand, UAE and other ...
