Wesley Morgan
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Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
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Well, I meant it as a joke, to be clear
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Well, I meant it as a joke, to be clear
Lehrer, who had been a draftee Army SIGINT E-4 in the mid-1950s: “the Army has carried the American democratic ideal to its logical conclusion, in the sense that they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, and color, but also on the grounds of ability [pause for laughter]”
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Lehrer, who had been a draftee Army SIGINT E-4 in the mid-1950s: “the Army has carried the American democratic ideal to its logical conclusion, in the sense that they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, and color, but also on the grounds of ability [pause for laughter]”
…fighting ISIS in pretty close proximity to each other in 2015-16. I remember asking him at Bragg afterward whether that had been frustrating for him as former TF 17 commander, and he said “oh no, when we were going after them it was just business, and it’s just business now too”
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
…fighting ISIS in pretty close proximity to each other in 2015-16. I remember asking him at Bragg afterward whether that had been frustrating for him as former TF 17 commander, and he said “oh no, when we were going after them it was just business, and it’s just business now too”
Kurilla’s predecessor as Ranger Regiment commander, Clarke, had an attitude much more like that. He’d headed TF 17, JSOC’s counter-Iranian-backed-militia task force in Iraq, in 2007-8, and then years later as the 82nd commander back in Iraq during OIR, his forces and those same forces were both…
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Kurilla’s predecessor as Ranger Regiment commander, Clarke, had an attitude much more like that. He’d headed TF 17, JSOC’s counter-Iranian-backed-militia task force in Iraq, in 2007-8, and then years later as the 82nd commander back in Iraq during OIR, his forces and those same forces were both…
I hope he brought in one of those anatomically correct twitching casualty mannequins like I saw at JRTC once
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I hope he brought in one of those anatomically correct twitching casualty mannequins like I saw at JRTC once
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I'm trying to imagine what AQI jihadist al-Sharaa would say if you told him while detained in Camp Bucca that "Someday, you will meet the host of the #1 rated American gameshow, The Apprentice, in the Oval Office."
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I'm trying to imagine what AQI jihadist al-Sharaa would say if you told him while detained in Camp Bucca that "Someday, you will meet the host of the #1 rated American gameshow, The Apprentice, in the Oval Office."
Wrong war, yes, we all know
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Wrong war, yes, we all know
We need a big-screen Sharaa/Jolani biopic. Sacha Baron-Cohen the obvious casting choice, but I hear Daniel Day Lewis is back from retirement too…
You spend your adult life fighting against a dictator with opulent, garish tastes. You finally prevail and walk the insides of the dictator’s abandoned palaces: gaudy, obscene, covered in gold bought with the people’s money.
And then the next thing you know…
And then the next thing you know…
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Instead, here’s a happy birthday to all my Marine friends, and to the other Marines I’ve met from Ramadi and Sangin to Hawaii and Okinawa.
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Instead, here’s a happy birthday to all my Marine friends, and to the other Marines I’ve met from Ramadi and Sangin to Hawaii and Okinawa.
Instead, here’s a happy birthday to all my Marine friends, and to the other Marines I’ve met from Ramadi and Sangin to Hawaii and Okinawa.
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Instead, here’s a happy birthday to all my Marine friends, and to the other Marines I’ve met from Ramadi and Sangin to Hawaii and Okinawa.
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I understand this argument but I disagree: being precise about who is doing this stuff matters, especially since we will eventually have to determine what to do in the future if reform becomes possible.
I somewhat agree with you about political messaging, but that’s not what I’m trying to do.
I somewhat agree with you about political messaging, but that’s not what I’m trying to do.
It's fine and good to note that CBP is extra bad, but from a political messaging point of view, ICE is the way people identify the larger group and being Technically Correct is often just bad political messaging. It's ICE to the public. They're all on the same Gestapo mission.
Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I understand this argument but I disagree: being precise about who is doing this stuff matters, especially since we will eventually have to determine what to do in the future if reform becomes possible.
I somewhat agree with you about political messaging, but that’s not what I’m trying to do.
I somewhat agree with you about political messaging, but that’s not what I’m trying to do.