All That Is Necessary

Month: July 2008

  • Whoo Hoo! A Cross-Posting Opportunity!

    Here’s my latest contribution to the Social Media Today community.

  • A Military Perspective on the Anbar Awakening

    A fascinating 20-minute video from MilBlogs TV describes how American forces cooperated with and supported the early stages of the Anbar Awakening, a key factor in the turnaround in Iraq. It’s not a completely happy tale — the American captain and the local sheik who played central roles in the cooperative effort both were ultimately […]

  • "The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost."

    That’s not an op-ed piece, it’s the lead sentence of an Associated Press article. As James Taranto points out, it’s kind of the mirror image of Walter Cronkite coming out against the Vietnam War.

  • Let’s Go Mets

    The whole post-every-day thing is already running out of steam. So far the blog seems to be mostly about Obama. Today it’s about the Mets — game starts at 1:10, I need to head for the train in less than an hour, I’m meeting my son Harry at the ballpark. Johan Santana (8-7) vs. Kyle […]

  • Whoops… Just a Few Minutes Left…

    … to make my quota for Day Five of the post-every-day experiment.

  • Mr. Obama’s War?

    Obama opposed the surge, and McCain was its champion. Jonah Goldberg argues that the success of the surge will therefore favor… Obama. If it were going worse, McCain’s Churchillian rhetoric would match reality better. But with sectarian violence nearly gone, al Qaeda in Iraq almost totally routed and even Sadrist militias seemingly neutralized, the stakes […]

  • Politicians in Iraq Provide Reasons for Hope

    I’m talking about two politicians in particular. One, of course, is Barack Obama, who is in Iraq to lay the groundwork for throwing under the bus the people who thought he was going to bring the troops home no matter what. The other is Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who caused me (yes, I take […]

  • Blogger’s Block

    One barrier to my blogging has always been technical. For a non-techie, I’m reasonably web-savvy, after five years of working full-time on intranet content. But, perhaps because I don’t have a technical background, I get stuck when software doesn’t behave the way the instructions say it should behave. That seems to happen a lot, and […]

  • A Blog in Search of a Purpose

    Some day, when I’m a titan of the blogosphere, I’ll be able to say, “I’ve been blogging since 2003.” Before my titanship arrives, however, I obviously need to post a little more regularly, and before I do that I need to figure out why I’m blogging in the first place. My most recent motivation has […]

  • I Prefer the Chicago Politician to the Obamessiah

    From the start, my take on Obama has been that he’s a talented and charismatic politician who some day could become an important senator. For the most part I like him. I’ll be voting for the other guy, but if Obama wins, it’s not like I’m going to flee the country. Regardless of who wins, […]