Possibly the most amusing line of the year, from Hugh Hewitt's vaunted radio program, interviewing Michael Ware:
Time Baghdad correspondant Michael Ware: Let’s look at it this way. I mean, you’re sitting back in a comfortable radio studio, far from the realities of this war.Anyone for T-Shirts reading "Veterans of the Empire State Building"? The possibilities here are endless...Hugh Hewitt: Actually, Michael, let me interrupt you.
MW: If anyone has a right…
HH: Michael, one second.
MW: If anyone has a right to complain, that’s what…
HH: I’m sitting in the Empire State Building. Michael, I’m sitting in the Empire State Building, which has been in the past, and could be again, a target. Because in downtown Manhattan, it’s not comfortable, although it’s a lot safer than where you are, people always are three miles away from where the jihadis last spoke in America. So that’s…civilians have a stake in this. Although you are on the front line, this was the front line four and a half years ago...
(Tip of the hat to The Poor Man Institute--www.thepoorman.net--where I saw this posted.)
