James Brown is dead. Music historians will never be able to fully document the man’s full impact on music and the reach of his influence. I’ve posted tons of James Brown videos on Offtopic in tribute. But the above video seemed appropriate for the front page.
On Offtopic:
James Brown – Please, Please, Please
James Brown Live (1966)
James Brown – It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
James Brown in the Blues Brothers
Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown – Unity
James Brown Live at Boston Garden (1968)
James Brown and Sammy Davis Jr. – There Was A Time
James Brown – I Feel Good
James Brown – Sex Machine
James Brown – Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag
James Brown – Doing it to Death
James Brown in Paris
BMW Films – Beat the Devil with James Brown
December 28th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Iraq: Vietnam Revisited
One of the many lessons we learned from the war in Vietnam is that technology alone rarely confers an insurmountable military edge. Even the most powerful military in the world must figure out how to harness it’s military power by the use of good judgment, wisdom, prudence and above all, farsightedness.
The lesson of the war in Vietnam at a cost of over 60,000 grave markers was that the Vietnamese considered our technological advantage irrelevant. They understood that the American willingness to keep the Army fighting was a diminishing asset unless it could be plainly and repeatedly demonstrated that there was a bright light at the end of the tunnel. If not, sooner or later, the American people would rise up and say enough and the war would be lost. And so it is in Iraq. It is a war without borders in search of a political solution