The Military and The Media has been re-organized.  While reading many emails from listeners, I realized that what the real purposes of The Military and The Media podcast are to not only discuss the military and its representation within the news and entertainment media but to talk to the soldier/sailor/airman/marine seeking work in the media industry as well.

This podcast is now on internet radio.  The dial in number is (646) 652-4845.  The show will be on 29 Jan 07 at 1300 HRS.  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/

To those ends, no more recitation of old articles.  Every week â�� fresh, new articles.  This week the offerings are my reactions to the recent Henry Winkler movie HOME OF THE BRAVE and selections from an interview with Tucker Smallwood.  I saw this movie as a premier and was duly unimpressed.  A short interlude provided by Michael Medved is his reaction to FLYBOYS.

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on Strategypage.com

by Austin Bay  November 15, 2006

Iraqis haven't forgotten the aftermath of Desert Storm.  Shia Arabs and Kurds throughout Iraq rose up against Saddam's tyranny anticipating liberation. Instead, they got a dose of so-called Realpolitik -- mass murder and a return to dictatorship.

Pity any American military commander tasked with overseeing a post-Saddam Baghdad.  U.S. and allied forces liberating Iraq will attempt -- more or less simultaneously -- to end combat operations, cork public passions, disarm Iraqi battalions, bury the dead, generate electricity, pump potable water, bring law out of embittering lawlessness, empty jails of political prisoners, pack jails with criminals, turn armed partisans into peaceful citizens, re-arm local cops who were once enemy infantry, shoot terrorists, thwart chiselers, carpetbaggers and black-marketeers, fix sewers, feed refugees, patch potholes and get trash trucks rolling, and accomplish all this under the lidless gaze of Peter Jennings and Al-Jazeera.

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