I would love to see more like this in the SG newswire, if at all possible.

seconded.

thirded.

Thanks for posting this, Sean. Michael Totten is always an excellent read.

I wondered what Totten had gotten himself into. It would be nice to have a credible conservative voice back on the Newswire again.

Sorry, I meant to put quotation marks around "credible." In any event, I am glad he is safe, and I look forward to his return to the Newswire.

You don't remember all the arguments Totten got into about how he wasn't a conservative?

Ha ha, definitely not a conservative. Voted straight Democrat last month.

My foreign policy views are vaguely right-of-center, but I'm left-of-center on just about everything else.

i do not share most of your views, but nevertheless I appreciate all the pics and perspective you provided. Coverage of this event was extremely difficult to find in the traditional media. I look forward to reading more of your work, but hope you will take into account the problems faced by the South that are ignored by the current govt.

I never did consider these demonstrations as "violence" or a "coup attempt". I wish we would have such mass demos in America to pressure Bush/Cheny to step down. Perhaps it's cynical of me but maybe that's why coverage was so sparse -- didn't want to give people any ideas, hmmm????

I remember them.

Just as I remember wishing that his news posts weren't always so predictable, as in, you knew what he would say on any topic that he posted on before he ever posted it. On domestic policy issues, he'd kick the Bushies in the ankles, and on foreign policy, he'd be Little-Green-Footballs-lite.

I always wanted to read something by Totten that genuinely surprised me and gave me something to think about.

So, in that spirit, I'll welcome Mike back to the newswire and hope that he continues posting .... and that one day, he does in fact surprise me.

*fingers crossed*

FuckOffKid,

Read this from July.

It's tough in a forum that's limited almost exclusively to opinion-based content to not eventually be able to predict how a well known writer will respond to a particular bit of news. Once you've got a handle on their political sensibilities it makes sense that you could see how their lens shapes the way they interpret new news. The same could be said for the other politics writers on the site (including myself) or even better known poiltical editorialists like Paul Krugman, Charles Krauthammer or George Will. I think what's most important is how well people are able to back up their opinions with evidence.

I don't do op-ed writing much these days anyway. I'd much rather visit and write about Beirut, where I just came from, and Iraq and Afghanistan where I'm going next.

Wow quite an article............ +4