From Friendly Links to Grouchy Rants

War has inspired a great deal of excellent blogging. Heck, even I'm posting more than once per day. So here's a few tidbits:

Phil Carter has a nice discussion of why urban warfare is so bloody.

Eugene has some terrible quotes from Mugabe favorably comparing himself to Hitler.

While the press is busy second-guessing our military after a mere week of war, we all ought to be reminded of the dangers of the retrospectoscope.

One of the most strident pacifists on the Atlantis list posted a list of quotes from anti-war activists in Baghdad. The comment by Lisa Ndjeru was particularly amazing. She wrote:

We get many phone calls from the media wanting to know casualty numbers and information about places hit. There's a lot of talk about precision. Are the Americans hitting precise targets? Are they keeping casualties to a minimum? It makes me very angry. Even if it were precision bombing, precision being that not a single civilian or home were hit, it still doesn't make this war legitimate. (Emphasis added.)

How is that not being objectively pro-Saddam?

That last one is almost as good as Salam Pax complaining about broken windows near precision bombing. Ah right, how can the overthrow of a brutal dictator be worth the terrible evil of a few broken windows! It should not be borne! Really, such lamentations should be saved for the genuine horrors of war.

Oh, and here's an old one, particularly relevant to our delicate ladies in uniform... A nice warm GO TO HELL is my only response to this idiotic article on how women are incapable of honor. I'm neither an angry nor a violent person, but such self-demeaning stupidity makes me want to beat the crap out of someone. Ah, but then I remember that such actions would violate my nature as a nurturing creature. Excuse me while I go read Lt Smash for some butt-kicking consolation... Then perhaps I'll watch Aliens or T2 for their morally uplifting examples of properly feminine ladies.

Okay. Wow. I'll stop ranting now.