Category Archives: War Commentary

Open-Source Warfare

Zenpundit has been slogging through the Oslo terrorist’s writings, and found some interesting things (check some of the other posts as well):

…the British, too, come in for a measure of contempt, via a quotation from none other than Osama bin Laden:

“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse”. Perhaps its unsurprising that the author is something of an admirer of bin Laden’s means, if not his ends.

This came to me via an email from James (Anglosphere) Bennett, who comments:

For the past decade people concerned about the consequences of multiculturalism have warned that one of its hazards will be an inevitable response, which a short perusal of European history will quickly suggest will not be very nice. Looking at this, my thought is “well, here it is”.

And there may be more of it to come.

[Update a few minutes later]

Was he influenced by the Unabomber?

Of course, given the similarities, maybe it was Al Gore.

Those Violent Lutherans

There has been a bombing and terrorist attack in Oslo, Norway.

Anyone want to make book on what the religion was of the people who did it? Or that when it’s revealed, the chin pullers in the media will tie themselves into knots trying to figure out why they’d do such a thing, and that it must be just a sad coincidence?

[Update a few minutes later]

Here’s more from ABC News. We can be sure that these tragic events had nothing to do with this:

Earlier this month, a Norwegian prosecutor filed terrorism charges against an Iraqi-born cleric who had allegedly threatened the lives of Norwegian politicians. Mullah Krekar, the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, said in a news conference in 2010 that if he was deported from Norway he would be killed and, therefore, Norwegian politicians deserved the same fate, according to an AP report. The Norwegian government had considered deporting Krekar because he was seen as a national security threat.

I mean, that would just be crazy talk.

[Update at noon]

Twenty to twenty-five dead at a youth camp.

Barbarians. Actually, that’s an insult to barbarians.

Hama Doesn’t Forget

or forgive. Things are not going to end well in Syria.

[Update a few minutes later]

Are we going to do anything to people who kill Americans? Apparently not. The Bush administration never did — it would be pretty foolish to expect this gang to. We’ll bomb Daffy, but not do anything about people who are actually committing acts of war against us.

[Update a few more minutes later]

Iran is at war with us. Are we at war with Iran? In fact, they’ve been at war with us for over three decades, but we continue, administration in, administration out, to pretend otherwise.

[Update a while later]

Well, at least we’re flaming Syria on Facebook. That’ll learn ’em.

Lies From The AP

The news service is attempting to rewrite history (again):

The administration of former US President George W. Bush had hastily linked Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator, to the 9/11 attacks.

That was one of the justifications for the 2003 US-led invasion, but the argument has since been widely dismissed.

No one in the administration claimed that Saddam was involved in 911, despite ongoing leftist lies to the contrary at the time, for which AP and others were happy to (and apparently remain happy to) be stenographers. The administration claimed operational links between Saddam and Al Qaeda, which did in fact exist.

The irony, of course, is that the reporter perpetuates this historical lie in the service of accusing Leon Panetta of a “gaffe.”