It used to be said that we watched CNN for what was happening and read the New York Times for what it meant. It seems to me that you get more to mull over these days in the comments boxes of a blog post like this. Castle denizenne Kat shows up with everything at her fingertips, and Major John – our man in Amsterdam Basra, and a regular both at Protein Wisdom and his own place – weighs in as well.
This being the blogosphere, you won’t come out of the experience with a unified theory of everything. Which, having read the coverage of many mainstream media outlets, seems more like a feature than a bug.
Major John had the comment of the day at Protein Wisdom. Words to the effect that he was very tired from working with the defeated Iraqi 14th ID what with proccessing all the prisoners and captured supplies and weapons.
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