Let us count the ways.
Meanwhile, so feckless is its erstwhile ally, Israel is forced to make an alliance with the Arabs against Iran.
Category Archives: War Commentary
The Contest Winners
Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch announce Reason’s selection of the best of yesterday’s pushback against multiculturalism and sharia. And Iowahawk explains why he abstained.
America In Retreat
The real news is that already notorious photo: the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Latin America, and the prime minister of Turkey, for more than half a century the Muslim anchor of NATO, raising hands together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently anti-American leader in the world.
That picture — a defiant, triumphant take-that-Uncle-Sam — is a crushing verdict on the Obama foreign policy. It demonstrates how rising powers, traditional American allies, having watched this administration in action, have decided that there’s no cost in lining up with America’s enemies and no profit in lining up with a U.S. president given to apologies and appeasement.
Proving once again that incentives work.
Useful Advice For The Obama Administration
How to identify “moderate” terrorists.
[Update a few minutes later]
The administration is joining with the “moderates”:
Fresh from announcing his quest for moderate Hezbos, President Obama’s deputy national security adviser for homeland security, John Brennan, has given a speech in which — after the usual pandering to, among other things, Islam’s purported dedication to the “aspiration” that we should all be able to “practice our faith freely” — he referred to his favorite city as “al-Quds, Jerusalem, where three great faiths come together.” Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has the clip, here. As explained by the link Hoft provides, “al-Quds Day,” which is now cause for anti-Israeli demonstrations throughout the world, was actually started by Ayatollah Khomeini 27 years ago — as the “Day of the Oppressed.” (The real nasties in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps are called the “al-Quds” forces.)
This administration certainly does go out of its way to give our Israeli allies that warm feeling, doesn’t it.
Indeed. But I think that some of the rubes are starting to catch on.
[Early afternoon update]
Michael Totten explains why the search for “moderate terrorists” is a complete waste of time. Don’t expect tools like Brennan to get it, though.
The Day Has Arrived
Time for solidarity in defense of enlightenment values.
Brendan O’Neill says, though, that we’re missing the real point — that the real cultural enemy isn’t extremist Islam, but the multiculturalists within. But Nick Gillespie explains why it’s important nonetheless. And Mark Steyn has more thoughts.
[Update a few minutes later]
People will see what they want to see.
[Update a while later]
Who decides what is provocative?
Our Gain Is The Dictators’ Loss
Some thoughts on Arlen Specter’s foreign-policy legacy.
Blaming the Norks
Isn’t this, kind of, you know, an act of war?
The navy ship Cheonan sank on March 26 after an explosion on the vessel as it sailed in the Yellow Sea off South Korea’s west coast.
The Post said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because South Korea had not yet disclosed the results of the investigation, said analyses showed the torpedo was identical to a North Korean torpedo previously obtained by South Korea.
The formal accusation is expected to be announced on Thursday and South Korea will ask the U.N. Security Council to take up the matter, Post sources said.
Do they seriously expect the Security Council to do anything about it? Especially with this White House?
Religion Of Peace
Actually, they’re just on the other side. David Horowitz elicits an amazing admission from a Muslim student in San Diego.
Bloomberg Holmes
Solves the mystery of the Purloined Pathfinder.
The Deranged Lone Wolf
…was in contact with Awlaki. No doubt the emails will reveal their discussion of how awful the health care bill was, and his foreclosure situation.