Front page color spread in the Wall St Journal. Against a background of Mosul blow all to pieces, burned out cars and piles of rubble, we have a young girl, looked to be 7 years old or so. Light brown hair, blue eyes, pink dress. She could have come off any suburban street in the USA. Makes you wonder how she wound up in war torn Mosul.
Same issue, page three, we have a photo of the US destroyer that collided with that container ship off Japan. It's a formal photo from stock, tied up to the dock, crew is manning the rails. Large ship, big enough to be a cruiser in WWII. Clearly a new ship, all her topside structures have walls slanted in, (tumblehome) to reflect enemy radar beams up into the sky rather than straight back to the enemy receivers. Just one popgun on the foredeck, looked to be 75 mm. Which is a dinky cannon for ship that size. Even army tanks carry 120mm guns these days. I hope she has lots of missiles, and that the missiles work when needed.
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