None of Navy SEALS killed in Afghanistan were part of team that killed Osama bin Laden, but belonged to same elite unit/ how to defend our aircraft?

God bless our warriors fighting this evil that is radical Islam.

Miami Herald  "The 30 U.S. troops killed when their Chinook helicopter was shot down Saturday in western Afghanistan - many of them Navy SEALs - were fighting a war rarely talked about.

"They were not battling Afghanistan's ingrained corruption, or building new roads or crafting nascent local governments. They were part of a group of elite troops that operate stealthily in the night and go after the U.S.' most wanted targets of the war."
Islamists will be handing out sweets to passersby in the Middle East and Code Pink-types will be popping champaign corks here in the US.  The only mourning that I expect from the left will be PETA's anger over the lost dog.

Chinook helicopter

Laser-Based Missile Defense for Helicopters Being Developed.  Make it quick in case Iran has a hand in anti-aircraft technology going to Afghanistan.

Helicopters Equipped With Acoustic Shot Detection Bound for Afghanistan    "Army and Marine helicopters have been equipped with electronic detection and countermeasures to protect against shoulder fired and larger missiles for years. Yet, there are no systems to tell pilots when they’re coming under small arms fire. That’s about to change."

The way things are

http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2011/08/weekend-humor-or-not.html

Blame this on President Bush too

http://dougpowers.com/2011/08/06/miss-me-yet-credit-rating-edition/

Gateway Pundit

The 18 Countries With a Better Credit Rating Than the United States

The Inexplicables; Trying to fathom the liberal way of thinking.

Victor Davis Hanson  "There are a number of things I don’t fathom about contemporary American popular culture and politics. Here is a small sample."

1) Is there a theoretical limit to our national borrowing?....

2) What are we to make of the self-referential wealthy who demand higher taxes?....

3) Is contemporary American aristocracy compatible with, antithetical to, or the logical complement to modern liberalism?....

4) Fairly or not, the entire illegal immigration debate is couched in terms of anger at the U.S.....

5) I can never quite understand the writ against our ancestors.....

...."The tragedy of the entire university, postmodern race/class/gender writ against past Americans is the fact that our generation has little to show for its moral posturing. When Obama lists our sins from Hiroshima to supposed genocide, I wonder how he would have managed a wagon train, or what he would have done when facing the horrific choices of either sending the napalm-carrying B-29s over Japan or invading the island to trump an Okinawa ten times over. Would he have voted present?"

Economics: The politics of blame

Politico  "The clarity of the downgrade intensifies suggestions that the next year will be in no small part about pinning blame. Republican presidential candidates will blame Obama, and if he wants to escape that, he's likely to launch a more aggressive and direct round of finger-pointing at Republican Congressional leaders than we've seen to date."  Via Taegan D. Goddard's Political Wire

Obama partisans ignore facts when bashing Bush  "As far as tax cuts are concerned, Bush did indeed cut taxes for the wealthy -- along with everybody else who paid income taxes. But does Brown remember that tax revenues actually increased in the years after the Bush tax cuts took effect?"  Byron York.

Obama’s Two Financial Crises  "Why is Barack Obama president of the United States? Media coddling? A weak McCain campaign? A strong, if dishonest, effort by Obama to present himself as a pragmatic centrist? All of these things played a role, but the advent of the subprime crisis at the height of the 2008 presidential campaign was the decisive factor. No drama Obama responded well, while McCain seemed over his head."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez