People sometimes ask – usually with a peevish edge in their tone – “Why aren’t you writing about the war?\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 Huh?”<\/p>\n
The answer: Mainly, because I have little to say, and there are people much better sited to write about the subject than I who are doing it every day.<\/p>\n
Like Michael Yon, whose latest dispatch on the eve of what will likely be the biggest offensive since the end of the conventional war in Iraq four years ago is out today.<\/p>\n
Read the whole thing<\/a>.\u00a0 Print it out.\u00a0 Mail it to Harry Reid.\u00a0 (Reid’s contact form, courtesy of Wake Up America<\/a>)<\/p>\n More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People sometimes ask – usually with a peevish edge in their tone – “Why aren’t you writing about the war?\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 Huh?” The answer: Mainly, because I have little to say, and there are people much better sited to write about the subject than I who are doing it every day. Like Michael Yon, whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}