…yes, you get racist hate mongering.
What will it take to get the Jewish community to wake up?
[Afternoon update]
Israelis unite against the Iran “deal.”
Because it’s a lousy deal.
Category Archives: War Commentary
More Hillary Problems
This isn’t really news — it’s been known for years, but it looks like someone’s finally seriously investigating Huma’s Muslim Brotherhood connections.
Trump
I haven’t posted much about him here (though I’ve had a lot to say over on Twitter), but yes, he would be a disastrous president.
I doubt if he’s ever even read the Constitution.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of Trump, go read Jonah Goldberg’s evisceration of him.
When You’ve Lost David Brooks
Even if he won’t admit it, he’s starting to realize what a fool he was in 2008, when he thought that pants creases were a good indicator of presidential material:
Wars, military or economic, are measured by whether you achieved your stated objectives. By this standard the U.S. and its allies lost the war against Iran, but we were able to negotiate terms that gave only our partial surrender, which forces Iran to at least delay its victory. There have now been three big U.S. strategic defeats over the past several decades: Vietnam, Iraq and now Iran.
And the latter two of those occurred on this president’s watch. In fact, they seem to have been his goal, right from his campaign in 2008.
Congress’s Commercial Crew Antics
I’ve been too depressed, disgusted and frustrated to even comment about them recently, but Eric Berger has three reasons you should be outraged about it.
Yazidi Child Soldiers
Their support of youth participation in the YBŞ—especially for women and girls—is made all the more striking by the fact Yazidis in rural Sinjar are often part of traditional patriarchal families. So-called honor killings of Yazidi women believed to have shamed their families have even survived into the present. A gruesome video that drew headlines and condemnation in 2007 showed a 17-year-old Yazidi girl named Dua Khalil Aswad being stoned to death by her own people on suspicion she converted to Islam to elope with a Muslim.
But the PKK/YPG model preaches equality of the sexes, something gaining ground among the Yazidis rescued by the militias.
Vian, the teenage PKK commander and drill instructor, claims for her part that the threat to ISIS fighters they’ll be killed by women gives coed units a psychological edge. “We have heard ISIS is afraid of fighting women,” she says. “We think ISIS is saying ‘if not for women, we’d control all the world.’”
“They don’t want to be killed by us,” she adds smugly.
It’s appalling that they have to rely on groups like the PKK for help.
The 70th Hiroshima Anniversary
“Thank God for the atomic bomb.”
It’s always tempting to second-guess things like this, but it was the best decision that could have been made at the time with the information available at the time. Hundreds of thousands of troops were expecting to have to fight (and die) to take the home islands as hard as they just had for Okinawa. And countless Chinese were still being tortured and murdered.
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Roger Kimball:
The idea that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima — and, since the Japanese failed to surrender, of Nagasaki on August 9 — was a ‘war crime’ has slowly acquired currency not only among the anti-American intelligentsia but also among other sentimentalists of limited worldly experience.
Yes. And years ago, Bill Whittle took on the ignorant and not-to-be lamented Jon Stewart on the subject.
Obama’s Iran Deal
Alan Dershowitz: Yes, it will fall apart.
And no amount of vile disgusting demagoguery from him will prevent it.
They’ve been waging war on us since I was in college, and we’ve never properly responded, or caused them enough pain to get it to stop.
Barack Obama, Rewriting History
Instapundit calls him out on it.
At this point, the mess in the Middle East is almost entirely of his (and Hillary’s) making.
Obama’s Foreign Policy
I agree, it’s hard to decide whether to be depressed or terrified.