Saturday Rocket Updates

This blog spent the week chronicling the unholy ass-whooping the IDF is giving Hamas. We began a pessimist but are now extremely optimistic. Moments ago the IAF bombed the BBC and Al-Jazeera. Bravo! We look forward to intel leaks about what the Israelis knew and what they did in the weeks after the war. Negotiations are in progress.

But lets temper that optimism a bit. As we write, the rockets fly. About 2000 over all. The riots within Israel spread. These are a disaster. Are they a warning, or is it too late? Also, we'd be stunned if Hamas didn't have one last dirty trick to play. 

In the end these conflagrations come down to perception. Right now only a midwit would think Israel hasn't humiliated Hamas. This blog calls upon the Jews to line Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem with crucified Hamas, just to be dicks. But we doubt they'll do that. 

In the meantime, we did a lot of great work on '76. We were generally happy with the Korean war scenes we read (about half overall). And those with which we weren't happy we fixed. Were are adding to the Korean War section of the book. Here comes Haig and an ad-hoc force of one air borne, one air assault and one marine brigade. Where once there was one landing on the North Korean coast, now there are two. Overall the Great Salvation of 1976 stands at 65,000 words.

We're also working on a new chapter introducing the US military. One scene has Haig watching troops boarding a transport in Brest, France. Another shows Task Force 73 (Operation Frequent Wind) at anchor in Subic Bay. The brevet admiral is Captain Larry Chambers, who skippered Midway during Operation Frequent Wind.

Huh. Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea is now 6th in overall book sales. Coincidence? Go to Good Reads and you'll see people pining for a third. I dunno man. We got nuthin.'