In the wake of recent election results, they’re starting to threaten to deport radical Muslims.

It occurs to me that Old Europe doesn’t dislike what we’re doing in Iraq so much as the very fact that we can do it. It reminds them of their own impotence and irrelevance, and in many, a fear that they could be next. Thus, the quick and relatively easy victory makes them more, not less angry and frightened.

What they don’t understand is that while we could conquer (or at least destroy) any nation on the planet, we have no desire to do so. The nations in which we could accomplish what we just did are far fewer–an extreme dislike for their own government, and an inability to change it in any non-violent way, are essential preconditions.

Unfortunately, while such nations are fewer, there are still far too many. But at least there’s one less than there was a month ago.

Badly.

This incoherent and meandering piece by Charlie Vick about how we have no space policy vision is a godawful mess. It’s OK for Charlie not to be the world’s greatest writer, but they do him, and their web site, a great disservice by running it in this condition.

It’s supposed to be a professional-quality publication–not a bulletin board. They should be embarrassed.

Guy Milliere has a very grim diagnosis, and prognosis, for France.

The bidding is still open on the “bunkumbuster.com” domain, for anyone who thinks that they’re a worthy blogger. I’m holding it open until tomorrow night. Don’t miss out on a great blog name.

Will this finally get the Europeans angry at Saddam’s regime? From a story about the opulence and decadence of Uday’s (and how is the guy’s name properly spelled anyway?) digs:

The house was adorned with paintings of naked women, as well as bundles of Internet printouts of what appeared to be prostitutes, complete with handwritten ratings of each. One black book listed hundreds of women’s names and phone numbers.

One e-mail printout was a complaint from a woman that she was having a difficult time finding heterosexual men in Europe.

“Darling, babe, it’s not good timing to send me sexy attachment. OH BOY where am I going to get one guy?” it read in English.

On second thought, maybe they’ll think it a compliment?

Will this finally get the Europeans angry at Saddam’s regime? From a story about the opulence and decadence of Uday’s (and how is the guy’s name properly spelled anyway?) digs:

The house was adorned with paintings of naked women, as well as bundles of Internet printouts of what appeared to be prostitutes, complete with handwritten ratings of each. One black book listed hundreds of women’s names and phone numbers.

One e-mail printout was a complaint from a woman that she was having a difficult time finding heterosexual men in Europe.

“Darling, babe, it’s not good timing to send me sexy attachment. OH BOY where am I going to get one guy?” it read in English.

On second thought, maybe they’ll think it a compliment?

Will this finally get the Europeans angry at Saddam’s regime? From a story about the opulence and decadence of Uday’s (and how is the guy’s name properly spelled anyway?) digs:

The house was adorned with paintings of naked women, as well as bundles of Internet printouts of what appeared to be prostitutes, complete with handwritten ratings of each. One black book listed hundreds of women’s names and phone numbers.

One e-mail printout was a complaint from a woman that she was having a difficult time finding heterosexual men in Europe.

“Darling, babe, it’s not good timing to send me sexy attachment. OH BOY where am I going to get one guy?” it read in English.

On second thought, maybe they’ll think it a compliment?

I don’t think so.

Glenn notes that Bush has endorsed a renewal of the “assault weapons” ban. I don’t think that it’s as bad for him politically as the good Professor does.

I’d think that the chances of an extension passing are close to nil, even with a Bush endorsement, and he (and Rove) knows that (remember, it was a Democrat-controlled Congress that got the first one through). And remember who’s majority leader in the House. Tom Delay probably won’t even let it out of committee.

So it’s probably a safe position to take. He can make himself look moderate to the moderates, while still allowing the thing to die, thus pleasing his gun rights constituency. The issue isn’t what the administration’s formal position is, but whether it actually provides any pressure to make it happen. I’ll be surprised if they do.

The only real political danger is if it actually passes, and he then has to sign it so as not to appear to change his position.

I just wish that more (or all) laws were sunsetted (sunsat?) like this one.

MSNBC has a story with much more detail about the ambush in which the POWs were captured, and their ordeal afterward. There’s nothing here to confirm the stories about Pfc. Lynch emptying her gun at the enemy. I’m still curious as to how they know that (I think I’ve read that the original reporting indicated that it came from Iraqi radio traffic).