It’s always been the ISI. Letting Pakistan get nukes was a strategic blunder of the first order.
[Update early afternoon]
Mark Steyn: The wages of weakness.
It’s futile to be fighitng in Afghanistan when our enemies there are merely puppets of the real problem across the border.
…was penetrated.
It’s good to know that, amidst the TSA follies and other stupidities of the past decade, some people in the government were doing some things right.
Zarkawi has a new roommate. Iowahawk has the lurid (and profane) details. I need a category for really dark humor.
…and the Muslim rape culture. This is a very politically incorrect article.
And in related news, here comes the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This may be playing out as Israel’s nightmare.
[Update a while later]
Will the Muslim Brotherhood succeed where bin Laden failed? As Michael Totten writes, “The gradualists–not moderates, but gradualists–in the Brotherhood do have a greater chance of success. Unlike the vicious psychotics of Al Qaeda in Iraq, they won’t alienate their soft supporters until it’s too late.”
Actually, as noted, I think this is just another way to express anti-Americanism.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of which, I give you Michael Moore, educating us unwashed types on true patriotism.
…but I would vote for Herman Cain over Barack Obama.
Just to be on the record. And not to imply that Mr. Cain is my first choice. I hope that this comment doesn’t just increase my racism.
…or at least, if not there, bin Laden’s ideas were born in the West.
Not surprising, really. Most ideas that kill millions were born in the West. The West has nurtured both great good, and great evil.
For example, where do you think that Pol Pot got his ideas? In Cambodia? Nope. In Paris. Just the place to marinate in the moldering monstrous themes of Rousseau and the Terror.
While Marx was a westerner, he fermented his deadly memes and wrote his most damaging works in London, a city that has had Marxists as mayor in recent history. Even Mao, perhaps the greatest mass murderer in history, was influenced by him.
What is particularly poisonous about radical Islam is how it has wed the ancient warmongering of Mohammed with more modern totalitarianism (though in a sense, you could say that Mohammed, with his intrinsic melding of religion and state, invented totalitarianism), and how comfortable the left seems to be with it, decrying “apartheid” in Israel, a nation that has Arabs in its legislature, while ignoring the true gender apartheid of the Arab culture. The alliance between the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and national socialism in Germany during the war was not isolated, or a coincidence.
[Via Ed Driscoll, who has more links]
SEIU goes full commie:
A May Day rally in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era. Not only did the SEIU help to organize the rally in conjunction with communists, they marched side-by-side with communists, while union members carried communist flags, communists carried union signs, and altogether there was no real way to tell the two apart.
And remember, the head of that organization was the most frequent visitor to the Obama White House.
That’s how Obama got bin Laden. It is one of the ironies of history that it’s Richard Nixon’s name on the plaque at Tranquility Base, because he happened to have become president a few months before the flight. Of course, it would be a stronger analogy if bin Laden had been captured two years ago.
The next (and penultimate) Shuttle flight is now no earlier than May 16th.
John Shannon said last year that it costs about two hundred million a month to extend the program, so this two-week delay cost another hundred million dollars (note that four months of that burn rate would provide enough resources for another entire SpaceX). That assumes, of course, that this delay will also push out the the schedule of the final flight. I don’t know enough about KSC flows to know if that’s the case, or if they can be parallel processing Atlantis, currently scheduled for the end of June.