{"id":4372,"date":"2010-03-23T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2010-03-23T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:35:27","slug":"bookshelf-a-soldiers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4372\/bookshelf-a-soldiers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookshelf:  Matt Gallagher&#8217;s &#8220;Kaboom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Bookshelf section of <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, former Marine combat infantryman and Assistant Secretary of Defense <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748703909804575123652884868846.html#mod=todays_us_opinion\" target=\"_blank\">Bing West reviews Matt Gallagher&#8217;s new book &#8220;Kaboom.&#8221;<\/a> The title &#8220;Kaboom&#8221; may sound familiar to many, because it&#8217;s the same name of <a href=\"http:\/\/kaboomwarjournalarchive.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gallagher&#8217;s compelling blog<\/a> about his combat tour in Iraq.\u00a0 West offers a glowing review of Gallagher&#8217;s book, but one passage in particular stands out as a testament to the effectiveness and contribution of our troops in Iraq, for which all Americans should be grateful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Gallagher is too modest, and too ironic, to tout his own accomplishments, so I&#8217;ll do it for him:\u00a0 He is a classic representative of the U.S. military, a force that imposed its will, both physical and moral, to shatter al Qaeda in Iraq and quash the Shiite-Sunni civil war and that is now withdrawing with honor, leaving Iraq a much better place than under Saddam Hussein.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a fantastic tribute to Gallagher and our military more generally, and a welcome contribution to the literature on their service there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Bookshelf section of The Wall Street Journal, former Marine combat infantryman and Assistant Secretary of Defense Bing West reviews Matt Gallagher&#8217;s new book &#8220;Kaboom.&#8221; The title &#8220;Kaboom&#8221; may sound familiar to many, because it&#8217;s the same name of Gallagher&#8217;s compelling blog about his combat tour in Iraq.\u00a0 West offers a glowing review of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[987,274,985,986,494],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bing-west","tag-iraq","tag-kaboom","tag-matt-gallagher","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}