If the Obama administration really is firing and picking generals based on performance, rather than a rotation schedule, that is an improvement over the previous administration.
Category Archives: War Commentary
Biohackers
This may not end well:
A man saying he was doing research for the U.S. government called with a few polite, pointed questions: How did she build that lab? Did she know other people creating new life forms at home?
The caller said the agency he represented is “used to thinking about rogue states and threats from that,” recalls Ms. Aull, a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate.
I’ll bet they are.
Do The Dems Have Amnesia?
That’s the charitable interpretation.
Facts Matter
J. D. Johannes, on the importance of reporting. Especially about war. Buy one of his DVDs.
A Simple Pirate Solution
Seven Existential Threats
…to Israel. And Obama’s dangerous game. We’ll see how much of the Jewish vote he gets next time around.
Flow Charting The Left
Somehow, this post reminds me of the old Far Side Sydney Harris cartoon. And read Pat Santy’s post on why the left makes common cause with extreme Islam.
Deep Kimchi For Iraq
Why, after the manifest failure of the North Korea negotiations, is the man in charge of them being assigned to Baghdad?
President Of The World
He is beginning to mention the novelty of his racial heritage a lot, usually in the context that we are now in a new world of Obama, and that his very presence is a rejection of the old and illiberal America.
That the veteran Colin Powell and Russian-speaking Condoleezza Rice ran American foreign policy the last eight years, in a way unthinkable in Europe, is never voiced. Suggesting that China would have an Uighur foreign minister, that Saudi Arabia would have a Christian foreign minister, that France would have an Algerian foreign minister, that Germany would have a Turkish foreign minister, or that Russia would have a Chechen foreign minister is as absurd as suggesting that a Powell or Rice was never a big deal.
So what Obama leaves out about America is telling. He touches on slavery, lack of voting rights for blacks in the South (although he conflates this issue and implies to foreigners that African Americans could not vote in the North as well), our past treatment of Native Americans, and the dropping of the bomb against Japan.
These transgressions are rarely put in any historical context, much less referenced as sins of mankind shared by all of his hosts (the pedigree of murder, exploitation, and rapine of his foreign interlocutors is quite stunning). We don’t hear many references to the American Revolution, or the great tradition of American ingenuity embodied by Bell, Edison, or the Wright brothers.
We hear nothing about our Gettysburg, or our entry into World War I. Iwo Jima and the Bulge are never alluded to. Drawing the line in Korea and forcing the end of the Soviet monstrosity are taboo subjects. That we pledged the life of New York for Berlin in the Cold War is unknown. Liberating Afghanistan and Iraq from the diabolical Taliban and Saddam Hussein is left unsaid. The Civil Rights movement, the Great Society, affirmative action, and present billion-dollar foreign-aid programs apparently never existed. Millions of Africans have been saved by George Bush’s efforts at extending life-saving medicines to AIDS patients — but again, this is never referenced.
This is how far you have to go to parody the guy.
Revealing
“Talk about blame America first. When discussing the prospect of foreign Jihadi murderers blowing up Americans, the Administration prefers the term ‘man caused disasters.’ But when talking about the alleged threat posed from “disgruntled” American vets, terrorism trips off the tongue.”
Michelle Malkin has :
There’s no hackneyed left-wing stereotype of conservatives left behind in this DHS intelligence and analysis assessment. I asked both DHS spokespeople to tell me who, specifically, the report was accusing of “rightwing extremist chatter” and which “antigovernment” groups are being monitored as “extremists.” They say they’ll get back to me.
Don’t hold your breath.