…that Nobel-winning terrorist and murderer Yasser Afafat died of AIDS.
It didn’t happen soon enough.
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn has further thoughts.
[Tuesday update]
I guess I wasn’t clear enough (or at all) as to the point of this post. It’s not news that Arafat died of AIDS. What’s news is that “Palestinians” are admitting it. I suspect that this is all of a piece with the civil war between Hamas and Fatah, it being an attempt by the former to discredit the latter.
…that Nobel-winning terrorist and murderer Yasser Afafat died of AIDS.
It didn’t happen soon enough.
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn has further thoughts.
[Tuesday update]
I guess I wasn’t clear enough (or at all) as to the point of this post. It’s not news that Arafat died of AIDS. What’s news is that “Palestinians” are admitting it. I suspect that this is all of a piece with the civil war between Hamas and Fatah, it being an attempt by the former to discredit the latter.
I’ve long thought that, despite CIA claims to the contrary (I mean, it’s not like the CIA is a reliable source), Osama has been dead for years. Here’s a Koranic interpretation of the latest “new” (really old) video, that speculates that it’s preparatory to an announcement that he’s gotten his virgins.
I’ve long thought that, despite CIA claims to the contrary (I mean, it’s not like the CIA is a reliable source), Osama has been dead for years. Here’s a Koranic interpretation of the latest “new” (really old) video, that speculates that it’s preparatory to an announcement that he’s gotten his virgins.
I’ve long thought that, despite CIA claims to the contrary (I mean, it’s not like the CIA is a reliable source), Osama has been dead for years. Here’s a Koranic interpretation of the latest “new” (really old) video, that speculates that it’s preparatory to an announcement that he’s gotten his virgins.
Zawahiri doesn’t sound very optimistic. But expect continued blather from the media and Congressional “leadership” about how we’re the ones losing the war.
…and winning in the media and in Washington. It’s Tet all over again, and we’re just letting them do it.
A congressionally-imposed defeat in Iraq may be averted by a swing in the polls, or more precisely, a swing in the GRPs that move the polls. Given the military’s long standing Public Affairs policy of media neutrality, the administration and the Generals will have to earn the GRPs in a hostile media environment. This is difficult, but not impossible, given the substantial American center – Citizens who would prefer victory if given reason to hope.
Alternately, Congress could defy the polls. Al Qaeda is running its war on smoke and mirrors – or, more accurately, on bytes of sound and sight. Congress could act on General Petraeus’ reports from the ground, rather than broadcasts generated by insurgents. This requires a simple commitment – one foreign to many in the elective branch: Leadership.
Something that seems to be in frighteningly short supply inside the Beltway these days. As Glenn notes:
Targeting our politicians and journalists is clearly going after our weak points…
Yes, they’re pretty soft targets.
[Update late morning]
Despite the cheerleading for them from the media and Congressional leadership, Michael Yon says that Al Qaeda is on the run in Iraq:
The focus on al Qaeda makes sense here, where local officials have gone on record acknowledging that most of the perhaps one thousand al Qaeda fighters in Baqubah were young men and boys who called the city home. This may clash with the perception in US and other media that only a small percentage of the enemy in Iraq is al Qaeda, which in turn leads to false conclusions that the massive offensive campaign underway across Iraq is a lot of shock and awe aimed at a straw enemy. But as more Sunni tribal leaders renounce former ties with al Qaeda, it
My adult son’s independent decision about what he wants to do with his life has no bearing on me or on what I write. My views and words about the issues that have concerned me for five years or more are not one gram more significant nor my arguments one iota stronger or weaker because of the decision which he independently made. Judge me as a parent if you will, but please do not judge my positions as a writer based on this act by someone else.
Also, on the chutzpah of the surrenderistas at New York Times:
One of the main arguments supporting the claim that we should leave now is the obvious and real collapse of public support for the war – a collapse that is shocking, just shocking, given the years of media spin on the war – media spin that bloggers have been pointing out continually. There’s something to say about the media and antiwar left beating on public opinion for four years, and then using that collapse of public opinion as an argument for their position.
Jules Crittendon has further thoughts on that subject.
Perhaps because they find it too inconvenient:
If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.
Syria can, apparently, get away with just about anything. I could hardly blame Assad at this point if he believes, after such an astonishing non-response, that he can reconquer Beirut. So far he can kill and terrorize and invade and destroy with impunity, at least up to a point. What is that point? Has anyone in the U.S., Israel, the Arab League, the European Union, or the United Nations even considered the question?
Things seem to have gotten worse, lately, not better, in terms of their ability to preempt these things.