Two Quick Links
I have a post up at Chicago Boyz on Pakistan:
Pundita’s Good Advice to the House of Monstrosities that is called Pakistan
Pundita is spot on. If anything, she’s too nice about making her point ( must be mellowing).
I will be more blunt; Pakistan is an unfixable horror show and an enemy of the United States by any rational metric that can be applied. Worse than Iran. North Korea is a toss-up. We need to disentangle ourselves from a nation hell-bent on provoking a nuclear war with it’s giant neighbor, India and that plots terrorism against us with the intent of killing US citizens.
Fabius Maximus has uncovered a satirical gem from the Marine Corps Gazette:
The Attritionist Letters (Archives)
In 1942 the English author, C.S. Lewis published a novel in epistolary style titled “The Screwtape Letters.” The novel took the form of series of letters of advice from an experienced devil named Screwtape to his young nephew Wormwood. His protégé was having a difficult time in tempting and ruining souls. The novel is a thinly veiled postulation of faith and morals. We have had a group of Marines, who I have allowed to remain anonymous, compile epistolary articles they have titled ” The Attritionist Letters.” They write provocatively about what they see as the ongoing clash between maneuver warfare advocates and attritionists. It is our hope that they will engender a spirited debate over the next several months as we publish their letters. I do not agree with every thing that they assert, but they also make points that are valid and well worth considering. One of the most important points I discovered soon after becoming the editor of the Gazette was that you will have the opportunity to publish points that you may or may not agree with and hope that the readers will take up the debate.
