Links and Minifeatures 12 04 Sunday

Carnival of Insanities is up (over at Dr. Sanity's, of course!). Recommended: Miserable Donuts, Corante

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Big Lizards has some things to say about whose information he believes in Iraq. Certainly one narrative holds more cohesion and more consistency over time.



Neo-neocon has two posts up in a series: Part One and Part II, concerning the forseen as opposed to actual difficulty of the war in Iraq. I believe that what we were told ahead of time corresponds much more closely to what actually happened in 99 percent of all historic incidences (for instance, what the Japanese troops were told in the beginning stages of World War II and what the Russian troops were told upon the commencement of their invasion of Finland, what the German people were told about World War II by Hitler, what the British people were told by Chamberlain and his predecessors...) So it wasn't perfect. At the very least, it was an honest analysis which has been borne out to a large extent by events. If, in the immediate aftermath of the initial phase, it appeared horrendously pessimistic, it wasn't, and remains largely correct.



While I'm on the subject, Mark Steyn has a column about the contrast in media treatment of Joe Lieberman and John Murtha, and about real world consequences.



National Review Online has a column about what the President has been saying recently and the reception it has gotten.



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Victor Davis Hanson has a wonderful article up regarding race relations, and excuses versus facts, and the real motivations of those making accusations in this area.



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HT to LGF for The Big Black Book Of Horrors, concerning the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime. Please go read it if you haven't already, to learn exactly what it is we were and are fighting there.



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Via Instapundit, an excellent article concerning male learning modes and how our industrial education system is failing boys (statistically) much more horribly than it has ever failed girls.