Some Stuff I Knicked from Doctrine Man

I frequently check Doctrine Man on Facebook. The articles that "DM" posts are often worthy of consideration, DM's commentary is sometimes worthy of consideration, and comments on the items and/or commentary that DM has posted ranges from thought-provoking to frustrating. Here are a few items I grabbed from DM on Wednesday, February 18th, 2015.

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Doctrine Man recently posted an article entitled Christians Flock to Iraq to Fight ISIS.

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Doctrine Man recently posted an article entitled Return of the ‘Ghost Rider’. For the first time, a decommissioned B-52 bomber has been returned to active service. Sweet!

LATE BREAKING UPDATE: Here's another link: I’ll Be Damned, These Boneyard B-52s Can Still Fly: Aged bomber gets airborne after years in the desert. * * *
Doctrine Man recently posted an article entitled What The Military Teaches About Bad Intel Applies To Anti-Vaxxers. It's worth reading, but it barely mentions the military at all, and does so in the following quote:

"In the military, we know better than to use rumor or unfounded suspicion as a basis for action. When a military leader feeds us obviously bad information, we call him on it."

When dealing with the military, this has not been my experience.

LATE BREAKING UPDATE: Apparently, it hasn't been anyone's experience: Lying in the military is common, Army War College study says. * * *
Doctrine Man recently posted an article entitled C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons. Recognizing that the intelligence that informed the decision to invade Iraq was not completely accurate, it nonetheless surprises me how many flat out falsehoods - the most common being "there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" - get perpetuated despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, more of which is being publicly acknowledged all the time.

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Doctrine Man recently posted an article entitled Biden being Biden is the highlight of Ash Carter's swearing-in ceremony. Partisan politics aside, am I the only one who finds it almost hilariously ironic that Vice President Biden was recently very vocal, even aggressive, in denouncing sexual assault, and now it's emerging that he apparently has a reputation for being kind of a creeper? I remember listening last year to a segment on the Michael Medved Show in which Medved interviewed Ronald Kessler, author of The First Family Detail and In the President's Secret Service, and Kessler discussed the fact that Vice President Biden apparently enjoys skinny dipping despite having female agents on his Secret Service detail. Also, The Onion has done some really good comedy work relating to Vice President Biden, and it can be viewed herehere, and here.

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As awkward a note as that is to end on, that's the extent of what I grabbed from Doctrine Man today.