Category Archives: War Commentary
Regulating Low Earth Orbit And Beyond
OSTP is recommending it be given to the FAA. I disagree, and will have a piece about this soon.
Why Trump Is Worse
…than any previous Republican nominee (discounting the fact that he’s not really a Republican):
We know, from his deeds, words, and even his pronouncements in this campaign, that Trump offers nothing to conservatives – worse than nothing, he would evict us from any position within our own party. He gets his foreign policy ideas from Michael Moore and Code Pink (or worse yet, from Vladimir Putin); his abortion views are grounded in his sympathy with Planned Parenthood; he supports socialized medicine in the form of single-payer healthcare, higher taxes, more government spending, and Herbert Hoover’s trade policy. He’s never met a bailout or a crony-capitalist deal he didn’t like, or a Democrat he wouldn’t donate to. He’s astonishingly ignorant, emotionally unstable, and wholly incapable of saying no to Democrats. Trump is a spoiled, entitled rich kid who shows not the slightest understanding of the American way of up-by-the booststraps striving to better yourself; in Trump’s world, the rich get richer by having the right friends, and everybody else is a serf who needs the government to protect them from foreign competition.
Let’s compare Trump to some of the prior Republican presidential losers, and I’ll throw in Rudy and Newt for good measure since I’ve written on this site in their defense before…
RTWT.
[Update a while later]
In short: yes, you can find an example of many of Trump’s flaws in prior Republican presidential candidates. But not one of those candidates combined the total package of Trump: the unfitness to be Commander-in-Chief; the total lack of accomplishments, sacrifices or even efforts over his lifetime for any cause we believe in, combined with repeated efforts to assist the other team; the manifest lack of political principle, personal character or demonstrated political character; the ignorance; the catnip for white supremacists; the toxic effect on the brand of both the party and its ideas.
A vote for Trump, even in the general election, is a suicide note for the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I will never vote for Hillary Clinton, but I cannot in good conscience ever give aid and comfort to Donald Trump and the poison he represents.
That’s my current attitude. I don’t know whom I’ll vote for — it will depend on what I see on the ballot.
ISIS’s Latest Barbarity
I don’t know if this report is true, but I have no particular reason to disbelieve it.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Why her criticism of Islam enrages western Leftists:
More perplexing to Ms. Hirsi Ali is the hostility leveled at her by some on the left for her efforts to challenge Islamic law and teachings. These critics profess to care about women’s rights but cannot bring themselves to criticize those who trample on them as long as the misogynist possesses an address in the Muslim world. At a recent panel held at the Women in the World summit in New York, the moderator accused Ms. Hirsi Ali of “picking only on Islam.” She countered: “I embrace Muslims but I reject Islamic law … because it’s totalitarian, because it’s bigoted and especially bigoted against women.” The anger she stirs on the left confounds her. “You have to ask yourself why anyone would align with proponents of Islamic law,” she says with wonder.
It’s pretty simple. They’re totally down with totalitarianism. And they feel an affinity with other enemies of western civilization and liberalism.
I would note that while I disagree with Carolyn Porco on a lot of things politically, she absolutely gets this issue right.
Benghazi
New documents show conclusively that she knew from the beginning it was a terrorist attack, despite her bald-faced lies about the video to the families on the tarmac. This will, and should be a campaign issue.
A Cruz Defeat Of Trump
In comments I was asked why Cruz should be preferred. This seems like a pretty good argument to me.
Claire Berlinski
She’s funding a new book project. Worthy of support.
Hillary’s FBI Interview
Salon (of all places) has ten questions that could derail her political career (and possibly send her to Club Fed):
Unlike loyal Hillary supporters who view the marathon Benghazi hearings to be a badge of courage and countless prior scandals to be examples of exoneration, the FBI didn’t spend one year (investigating this email controversy) to give Clinton or her top aides parking tickets. They mean business, and lying to an FBI agent is a felony, so Hillary Clinton and her aides will be forced to tell the truth. The doublespeak involving convenience and retroactive classification won’t matter to seasoned FBI agents whose reputations are on the line; the entire country feels there’s a double-standard regarding this email controversy.
Because there is, of course. But much of the Democrat machine is in denial, and cannot imagine a world in which a Clinton would ever actually have to be accountable for their crimes.
[Update a while later]
Any one or more of these four laws should mean jail for Hillary and her top aides. Here‘s the linked article.
Obama’s Syria Legacy
…Horrible, preventable mass genocide. Not to mention destruction of antiquities. And he turned down a CIA plan to prevent the rise of ISIS.
Gee ,it’s almost as though he really doesn’t care that much about the rise of ISIS.