Glenn Greenwald says that the Democrats owe George Bush and Dick Cheney an apology. And heads explode across the blogosphere.
Category Archives: War Commentary
Iran, And Syria
Michael Ledeen says that it’s time for Khameini, Ahmadinejad and Assad to go. But don’t expect Washington to do anything to make it happen.
High Noon
…in Pakistan.
Unfortunately, the man in the White House is no Gary Cooper.
The Country That Brought Us The Holocaust
A Question For The President
“You authorized a risky operation to find and kill Osama bin Laden. Following your orders, a SEAL team shot him through the eye and the chest. Imagine that your successor is an even more left-wing Democrat than you are. Or imagine that he/she is a libertarian. Either might assert that the operation violated the law in some way. Would you approve of a Justice Department investigation into the actions of the SEALs? Do you think it be okay if, under the next administration, they will be obliged to hire lawyers and worry about their own and the their families’ futures? If not, will you instruct Eric Holder to call off the dogs who are currently investigating the CIA for interrogating the terrorists who led you to Osama bin Laden?”
That would require him to have some kind of consistent set of decent personal and political principles. Of course, the thought of a Democrat more left wing than him succeeding him is kind of frightening.
The Latest From The Loony Bin
Yeah, let’s let these nutbags have nukes:
Close allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being “magicians” and invoking djinns (spirits).
Ahmadinejad may be a short timer, but it’s unlikely he’ll be replaced by anyone sane.
Hey, Mr. “Most Transparent Administration In History”
How about releasing the order to take out bin Laden?
If it exists, that is.
Also, a tale of two speeches — one from a narcissist, one from…something else.
Who We’re Really At War With
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.
Bin Laden’s Impenetrable Network
…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.
Lara Logan
…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.”