Alternative News

I don't know who writes the Belmont Club blog, but I am putting him at the top of the linksheet. He has steadied me in many a gloomy hour, because he/she knows what few in our country realize: military operations are many times more complicated than they appear in the media, and the lag of reported/unreported is vast indeed. And he writes with the assurance of someone who is familiar with his subject matter enough to know what he does not know.


Today's post contains heady words:

And within that web of doubt America must grapple with a single burning certainty: that unless it can bring a functioning democracy to the Middle East and militarily defeat the terrorist threat it will find its very national existence threatened. Optimism is a word for nothing left to lose.

Indeed.