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Liz Cheney for Speaker of the House! AND SOON!
Another Aha!!!
If Democratic leadership can find six moderate Republicans–perhaps from states that voted for Biden–to join their solid caucus of 212, they can snatch Victory for 2023 out of the jaws of Republican anarchy. Ah, the irony! A chance for Cheney to subplant the man who so rudely dumped her from Republican leadership… They don’t call me the Idea Man for nothing!
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Upon the 40th Anniversary of the Wall
Upon the 40th Anniversary of the Wall
Letter to a retired foreign service officer and college classmate, followed by a letter from the president of the Vietnam Veterans of America: Ah, Sharon, I can still remember you taking your lunch break at the State Department to walk me through the Capitol and point me in the direction of the Wall. I had to walk around the perimeter three times (by coincidence, a propitious number in…
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Joe! Give Zelensky what he asks for! Ukraine has earned it! It's a matter of Pride!
Joe! Give Zelensky what he asks for! Ukraine has earned it! It’s a matter of Pride!
Joe! The MiG-29s from Poland are planes Ukrainian pilots can fly RIGHT NOW! They are a symbol of national pride, of being able to stand up to Russia toe to toe. We are at war, and RIGHT NOW counts! Russia is advancing on Kiev, the capital RIGHT NOW! Russia is advancing into the south of Ukraine RIGHT NOW! Russia is indiscriminately bombing schools and hospitals, killing women, children,…
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One Difference Between Today and 1939
One Difference Between Today and 1939
My dad, an Irish immigrant’s son who by dint of hard work and good luck became a seaplane instructor from Stamford, Connecticut, could take a crowded train down to Arcada, Florida, and teach British farmboys how to fly. After learning how to take off and land in one piece, they quickly graduated to aerobatics fifty feet off the deck. The ones who survived were well-prepared to move on to…
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World War II 1/2? Bring it on, Vladimir!
World War II 1/2? Bring it on, Vladimir!
I think WW II1/2 might be a good thing. As with Hitler and Hirohito, we could put Putin out of business and allow Russia to have truly free elections and a market economy where all can play, not just a few oligarchs/Friends of Putin… It would need to be a stealthy blitzkrieg from all NATO countries bordering Russia. But from what the world has seen far in Ukraine, this is a typical Communist…
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Putting Out a Kitchen Fire
Putting Out a Kitchen Fire
Of course it’s best not to start a cooking fire in the first place, but if it happens, do we stand around until the whole house is engulfed in flame or do we use the fire extinguisher hanging in the pantry? Same deal with preventing forest fires. Better to cook over a stone fire pit and completely cover up the embers when we’ve finished. But if a spark does get caught in the wind and lands in a…
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UNPUBLISHED LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
UNPUBLISHED LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 1, 2022 To the Editor: As an author of serious historical military fiction, I must ask why the US has not fast-tracked Ukraine into NATO? 150,000+ Russian troops surrounding it and the US pulls out its embassy staff and military trainers? I once had great hope for President Biden’s leadership, but he is not showing it.It mystifies me why Finland and Sweden are not already members, sharing…
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IF YOU WON'T IMPOSE A NO-FLY ZONE, JOE, SEND UKRAINE SOME FIGHTERS SO THEY CAN DO IT THEMSELVES!!!
IF YOU WON’T IMPOSE A NO-FLY ZONE, JOE, SEND UKRAINE SOME FIGHTERS SO THEY CAN DO IT THEMSELVES!!!
The Pentagon nixed Poland’s plan to ship Ukraine their MiG fighters by way of Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Once again, US leadership dithers over technicalities while children die in Kiev and grandmothers flee for Poland. Gary Kasparov gets it–the West is more worried about upsetting Putin than the lives of Ukrainians who courageously stand as the bulwark of Western democratic ideals. Are…
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Open Letter to the Fishermen of Killybegs
Open Letter to the Fishermen of Killybegs
Once again, it’s time for you–my Irish cousins–to take action. The president of the United States and NATO are afraid to confront Russia–to cross one of Putin’s many so-called “red lines.? And yet wasn’t the very reason NATO was created was to be able to repulse a Russian attack on free Europe?It was you, the fishermen of Killybegs, who confronted the Russian Navy and forced them to leave your…
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Joe! We are ALREADY at war in Ukraine!
Joe! We are ALREADY at war in Ukraine!
As former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told CNN’s Jim Acosta today, the fact that American- and NATO-supplied missiles are being used to shoot down Russian aircraft means we are ALREADY at war with Russia! To know that the US has an entire wing of AC-130 Spectre gunships, including the legendary 16th Special Operations Squadron (the 16th SOS), sitting on the tarmac at Hurlburt…
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In the Year of the Rabbit, sequel to award-winning Big Buddha Bicycle Race, will be released on Amazon by Silkworm Book on September 1, 2021, preorders available on August 1, 2021. IN THE YEAR OF T…
IN THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT
Terence A. Harkin
Cameraman Brendan Leary survived the ambush of the Big Buddha Bicycle Race—but Tukada, his star-crossed lover, did not. Leary returns to combat, flying night operations over the mountains of Laos, too numb to notice that Pawnsiri, one of his adult-school students, is courting him. When his gunship is shot down, he survives again, hiking out of the jungle with Harley Baker, the guitar-playing door ++gunner he loves and hates. Leary is discharged but remains in Thailand, ordaining as a Buddhist monk and embarking on a pilgrimage through the wastelands of Laos, haunted by what Thais call pii tai hong—the restless, unhappy ghosts of his doomed crewmates.
Year of the Rabbit, a story of healing and redemption, honors three groups missing from accounts of the Vietnam War—the air commandos who risked death flying night after night over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the active-duty airmen who risked prison by joining the GI antiwar movement, and the people of neutral Laos, whose lives and country were devastated.
“Terence A. Harkin makes a strong, significant, even surprisingly unique contribution to the large body of fiction that has emerged from the Vietnam War. For anyone who wishes to fully examine that most emblematic of American wars, In the Year of the Rabbit is essential reading.” —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer-winning author of Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
TERENCE A. HARKIN was awarded the 2020 Silver Medal in Literary Fiction from the Military Writers Society of America for his debut novel, The Big Buddha Bicycle Race. During the Vietnam War he served with the “Rat Pack,” the USAF photo unit operating out of Ubon, Thailand, before going on to a long career as a Hollywood cameraman (M*A*S*H, From Here to Eternity, Seinfeld). He has returned often to Thailand and Laos.
Proud to Announce!
The Big Buddha Bicycle Race was honoredby the Military Writers Society of Americawith a Silver Medal in Literary Fiction in September of 2021 “A brilliant companion to the most iconic depictions of life in a war zone, including Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Robert Altman’s film M*A*S*H, and Barry Levinson’s Good Morning, Vietnam. It depicts the sharply drawn characters, daily work drudgery, combat…
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THAI CASHIERS ARE PROTECTED
If Thailand can get masks, face shields, gloves, hand-sanitizer to every cashier in the country, how can the richest country in the history of the world let any of its front-line Covid-19 workers go unprotected? Just askin’…
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From today's NY Times: Wear a Mask
Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. spoke to a dozen leading epidemic-fighting expert. Whether or not that protects healthy people is being debated, but to remove the stigma from sick people who definitely need to mask up, EVERYONE should have to wear a mask in public. The lesson from Asia, the experts told Donald, is that by making masks mandatory for everybody, then the sick…
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DO Don Face Masks!
My posts of two days ago are being backed up by responsible public health experts according to today’s Yahoo News. Because you SHOULD get out for fresh air, sunshine, and exercise if you do it responsibly…
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Weighing in on the Wai in the Time of Covid-19
A recent note I sent to Bangkok Post columnist (and former Sports Editor) Roger Crutchley: Dear Roger– You mentioned wais and namastes in another column. In the US, aside from stuffy Washington, D.C. and among oligarchs like Trump, the wai and namaste gestures are not that unusual–in yoga studios around the country and at the end of countless performances by musicians, whether they be rock,…
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Happy to report I will be doing PowerPoint presentations and readings at: Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA on Sept 6 at 7 PM US Air Force Academy’s War, Literature & The Arts Conference from…