Felafel: The puppy's name -- for those of us who cared to give her a name -- is "Felafel." She lives at a patrol base we'...

The Wisdom of Jim Bowie: Our chaplain had a few free classic TV DVDs, including a selection of a show about Jim Bowie from the 1950s. The h...

The Finest Words: Rolled under a young buckskin's side he had started to train; Slipped under his side in the mud and the September rai...

A Mosque from Route Irish, in the Dust of Baghdad:

Islamic Mortgages and Religious Flexibility - In Wednesday's Best of the Web , James Taranto blogs about "Islamic mortgages" i...

A Soldier of the 9th Iraqi Army Division: The uniform variations are endlessly hilarious to US soldiers. Our XO said that a good unit of th...

Dreamtime: The discussion I was having with our captain in the Civil Military Operations section pertained to a labor dispute that had reach...

Take a ride.

Hospitality and Politeness - Michael Totten writes of "the personal and political in the Middle East." He opens thusly: Roger Co...

The Courtyard of a Great Sheikh:

I am almost certain that this is Swiftian satire, but hey, discuss anyway. NEWTON'S OPTIC: THE ANSWER to all our problems is staring us ...

Feasting in Arafiyah:

It's a million dollars off! Such a bargain! Now, this is California after all, the land of excess, but who needs 4300 sq feet? And, tho...

Suicide Bomber Motivation - Not Exactly Rocket Science (I'll have to update my favorites list soon, and this site's going on) repor...

Stuff. I believe this is some sort of joke. The Attorney General thinks you all are cowards . The Russians sent the money . But Gates may up...

One Night in Bangkok -- And the world's your oyster. This is about the best cultural experience I've had here so far - traditional ...

Sheep in Sadr-al-Yusifiyah:

Why Buddhism Never Caught On in Greece - All right, you've read the Phaedo - Socrates was halfway to Buddhism on his deathbed (philosop...

Single Combat Between Kings - Alexander very much saw himself as a Homeric leader, and a front-line fighter, but the Oriental despots he fou...

"We have decided to wait until the Russians send the money." BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan's parliament will delay a v...