Perhaps it's just professional admiration for a long, hard thing.

Go read it, it'll make your dick hard. Well sorta, it's army puke shit, and I don't care how cold you pussys are. It is too gay.

It's penis envy!

(Guess I wanted.)

First-- I dig this guy's blog. Great reading. I've obsessively read everything Wretchard and Command Post have written about Fallujah since last April. I'm a closet Fallujah-junkie.

Second-- If I was a chick, I would dig tanks. So I'm assuming lots of chicks really do dig tanks. Why? Some guesses:

In addition to the obvious "biggest gun"/phallic symbolism, a tank is a rolling sanctuary which fulfills the evolutionary desire for protection from bad things in the world. That's pretty hot.

And a tank is cutting edge fashionable. Also hot. Plus, one instinctively senses that the inside could be be decorated, accessorized, and personalized to some degree. Hot.

Plus plus, a tank comes equipped with virile and smoking hot tank operators. These guys fulfill the evolutionary desire to mate with the strongest male, increasing the chances of survival of the species. There's not a pot belly among these guys. They're as chivalrous as the day is long, and as randy as the night is young. Smmmmoooookkkkkiiinnnn HOT.

Plus plus plus, these guys come pre-equipped with fashion forward uniforms(!) AND cutting edge technologic accessories.

These guys are nothing less than Knights riding upon the biggest, baddest steeds in history. The steeds are also modern art advertisements for the virility and manhood(ahem) of their riders. How could any healthy, well-adjusted, red-blooded woman NOT love tanks, and all that that implies?