← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Otto Skorzeny
Thread ID: 18695 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-06-17
2005-06-17 11:23 | User Profile
There are now a lot of military bloggers. Many of the them are being pimped by neo-con shills like Michelle Marklin, an example of one, Austin Bay [url="http://austinbay.net/blog/index.php"]http://austinbay.net/blog/index.php[/url] . Most of them have basically lots of anti-froggie, Israel firster and gung-ho stuff. Reading through them, I can get all kinds of information on troop and ship movements, military bases and support facilities. Don't these fools know anything about Operations Security? What's up with Army CIC, NCIS and AF OSI? Why don't they shut these people down and put them up for at least an Article 15 hearing for violating Op Sec rules.
2005-06-17 12:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE]I find that this return visit to Iraq spurs thoughts of Americaââ¬â of American will to pursue victory. I donââ¬â¢t mean the will of US forces in the field. Wander around with a bunch of Marines for a half hour, spend fifteen minutes with Guardsmen from Idaho, and you will have no doubts about American military capabilities or the troopsââ¬â¢ will to win. [B]But our weakness is back home, on the couch, in front of the tv, on the cable squawk shows, on the editorial page of the New York Times, in the political gotcha games of Washington, DC. It seems America wants to get on with its wonderful Electra-Glide life, that September 10 sense of freedom and security, without finishing the job. [/B] The military is fighting, the Iraqi people are fighting, but where is the US political class? The Bush Administration has yet to ask the American people ââ¬âcorrection, has yet to demand of the American peopleââ¬â the sustained, shared sacrifice it takes to win this long, intricate war of bullets, ballots, and bricks. Bullets go bang, and even CBS understands that. [url]http://austinbay.net/blog/index.php[/url][/QUOTE]
Are the majority of American citizens who opposed the Destruction of Iraq and saw right through the disgraceful lies now obligated to "get off the couch", disrupt their "Electra-Glide" lives (whatever that means), take up arms, and go "finish the job"?? Yea, nice try, there.
2005-06-17 12:26 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Otto Skorzeny]Don't these fools know anything about Operations Security? What's up with Army CIC, NCIS and AF OSI? Why don't they shut these people down and put them up for at least an Article 15 hearing for violating Op Sec rules.[/QUOTE] Some of them have been busted for just that, like this guy:
[url]http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001100.html[/url] [QUOTE]Recently, shortly after his commanders discovered My War on the Web, Spc. Buzzell found himself banned from patrols and confined to base. His commanders say Spc. Buzzell may have breached operational security with his writings. "My War" went idle as he pondered the consequences of pursuing his craft while slogging through five nights of radio guard duty, a listless detail for an infantryman. More recently, the pages again went blank, as he chafed under a prepublication vetting regime imposed by his command.[/QUOTE] (Everything this guy posted is still accessible via the Google cache or Web Archive, BTW)
The big military blogs are being run by the Army for propaganda purposes, for all we know. Perhaps a lot of the information they give about specific operations is BS, or cleared beforehand.
See also:
"Army's Rules for Blogging from the Battlezone" [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/paul-rieckhoff/armys-rules-for-blogging_2655.html[/url]
2005-06-17 12:49 | User Profile
One of my pet peeves about military/pro-war/neo-con blogs is that if you browse them for long enough, you'll come across the following quote about 10 trillion times (a conservative estimate):
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse." John Stuart Mill**
It's as if you rattle off this quote and every war becomes instantly justified, and everyone opposed to it a spineless traitor.
2005-06-17 15:14 | User Profile
[QUOTE]The big military blogs are being run by the Army for propaganda purposes, for all we know. Perhaps a lot of the information they give about specific operations is BS, or cleared beforehand.[/QUOTE] From some of these I've read I have serious doubts that these folks have ever served in the Armed Forces. Alot of this stuff sounds like recanned talkradio.
2005-06-17 16:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]From some of these I've read I have serious doubts that these folks have ever served in the Armed Forces. Alot of this stuff sounds like recanned talkradio.[/QUOTE]I argee some of them are quite silly, written up by a bunch of wannabes. I feel like paraphasing the quote from the movie Ronin and asking the wannabe a question, "Okay so you say you are in US Special forces, then what color is the boat house in Fort Bragg? Everyone in the SF knows that. Oh, you don't know? YOU DON'T KNOW BECAUSE YOU NEVER F**KING BEEN THERE!"