…enable Islamic intimidation? Makes sense to me.
Category Archives: War Commentary
Not United Nations
It’s a club of thugs, that long ago outlived its usefulness:
We are reminded once more of the truth that Solzhenitsyn uttered many years ago: The U.N. is not the united nations but the united governments or regimes. And that body at large is no better than the governments or regimes that compose it. And, though the world has gone far in democratization, there are still many regimes that are as savage as can be imagined. And they sit on such panels as human- and women’s-rights commissions. You know? Understandable — but still, as I said, hard to swallow.
We need to set up something else, with some minimum entry requirements.
The Civil War
The organization lost all its credibility with me years ago.
Where Is The Outrage?
Suppose that, a week before the Congress voted on whether or not to authorize military force, a document had been generated that showed there were no WMD in Iraq. Suppose further that it was reported that the Pentagon had sat on it, and not released it until weeks after the vote. And when asked why, the explanation was “we didn’t want to influence the vote.” Then, a Pentagon official comes out and denies that it was deliberately withheld, though the record clearly shows that the information was known by the defense secretary prior to the vote.
Imagine the howls from the Democrats and the press, and calls for firings and impeachment, and demands for a new vote.
Substitute health care reform for Iraq, HHS for Pentagon, and “will cost much more than advertised” for “no WMD,” and that’s exactly what has happened.
[crickets chirping…]
Well, Israelis Should Quiet Their Fears
…with a US National Security Advisor like this.
[Monday morning update]
Today, we are all Israelis. Well, OK, maybe not the National Security Advisor.
A Pithy Comment
…over at Althouse’ place:
A religion that elevates men over women, lets you wear cool robes and headgear and carry guns and take exotic names and shit – what could be more appealing to a stupid boy who hasn’t done anything with himself yet?
Win-win for him.
Sadly, there are a lot more like him out there.
Not So Hip And Edgy
Thoughts on Bill Clinton and Comedy Central, from Mark Steyn:
Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesman’s dignity (please, no giggling) in the cause of comparing tea partiers to Timothy McVeigh. Oh, c’mon, they’ve got everything in common. They both want to reduce the size of government, the late Mr. McVeigh through the use of fertilizer bombs, the tea partiers through control of federal spending, but these are mere nuanced differences of means, not ends. Also, both “Tim” and “Tea” are three-letter words beginning with “T”: Picture him upon your knee, just Tea for Tim and Tim for Tea, you’re for him and he’s for thee, completely interchangeable. To lend the point more gravitas, President Clinton packed his reading glasses and affected his scholarly look, with the spectacles pushed down toward the end of his nose, as if he’s trying to determine whether that’s his 10 a.m. intern shuffling toward him across the broadloom or a rabid armadillo Al Gore brought along for the Earth Day photo op.
Will it work? For a long time, tea partiers were racists. Everybody knows that when you say “I’m becoming very concerned about unsustainable levels of federal spending,” that’s old Jim Crow code for “Let’s get up a lynching party and teach that uppity Negro a lesson.” Frank Rich of the New York Times attempted to diversify the tea-party racism into homophobia by arguing that Obamacare’s opponents were uncomfortable with Barney Frank’s sexuality. I yield to no one in my discomfort with Barney Frank’s sexuality, but, with the best will in the world, I find it hard to blame it for more than the first 4 or 5 trillion dollars of federal overspending. Eschewing such cheap slurs, Time’s Joe Klein said opposition to Obama was “seditious,” because nothing says sedition like citing the U.S. Constitution and quoting Thomas Jefferson. Unfortunately for Klein, thanks to “educator” William Ayers’s education reforms, nobody knows what “seditious” means anymore.
It’s all like that. Few people can write so entertainingly about such serious subjects (though Lileks can give him a run for his money).
Too Bad I Can’t Draw
It’s less than a month until “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.”
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn explains.
Comedy Central’s Cowardice
Some thoughts:
…note how entirely real radical Muslim threats and violence are treated as just part of the weather — something you have to adapt to — while nonexistent Tea Party violence is an existential threat to the Republic.
Watch out what kinds of behavior you reward, and what kinds you punish. You’re likely to get more of the former, and less of the latter.
[Update a few minutes later]
I liked this comment at Ann Althouse’s place:
Obama is reaching out to Muslims. Maybe he wants to learn the secrets of their success in shutting people up.
It sure looked like a threat to me. I’m sure the Department of Justice will get right on it.
[Update a while later]
Krikorian’s Corollary To Sullivan’s Law: “All organizations that are not actually anti-jihadist will over time become dhimmified and accommodate themselves to jihadism.”
Sounds right to me.
A Quixotic Quest
Roger Simon is trying to get the LA Times to release the Khalidi birthday tape.
It’s never going to happen. I’m guessing that if it ever came to light, it would destroy the president’s support and fundraising ability in West LA. Not to mention New York, south Florida and other places. In fact, I would be completely unsurprised it it turns out that it’s already been destroyed.