Richard North of the British blog Eureferendum has been beating the drums for years for British Soldiers to get far better protection from IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the government is finally responding --- under the media radar, as it turns out. British Soldiers will now get another 145 Mastiff vehicles, which are "mine resistant" V-shaped trucks that have an excellent record of protecting their passengers from roadside bombs. Which raises the question, "What is Gordon Brown, the new British Prime Minister, really thinking?"   The answer seems to be "nobody knows." On the one hand, Brown has his Left Labour wing, which controls the BBC and the Guardian and any number of mind-numbed robots of the Left. They reflexively hate the Iraq war and America. On the other hand, there is a  need for Brown to deal with reality in some sane fashion. The Mastiff story illustrates how Brown works above the radar to please his Left, and under the...(Read Full Post)