Gerard Baker says that it’s counterproductive to blame ourselves:

Events such as yesterday

Gerard Baker says that it’s counterproductive to blame ourselves:

Events such as yesterday

Gerard Baker says that it’s counterproductive to blame ourselves:

Events such as yesterday

Even when they lose.

…the terrorists are having a major impact on our society. There have been enough successful attacks (9/11, London, and Madrid to name the most obvious) that each foiled attack still heightens the public fear level, causing a predictable government overreaction. Today’s news will certainly cost us a little more freedom and a lot more treasure.

It became a standing joke in the months after 9/11 attacks that, if we did not continue some trivial activity, “Then the terrorists have won.” Sadly, it’s no joke.

I’m glad that the President has finally stopped calling this a War on Terror, and is now identifying the enemy. Unfortunately, I have to agree with Keith Burgess-Jackson that “Islamofascism” is the wrong term:

Why would President Bush use

Martin Bright says that “the left” can take a few lessons from “the right“:

…the Foreign Office seems determined to press ahead with courting radical Islamists. Just this month, the British government paid for Yusuf al-Qaradawi to attend a conference in Turkey to discuss the future of European Islam. At home, it funded two Islamist youth organisations, the Federation of Islamic Student Societies and Young Muslim Organisation, to help run a roadshow of Muslim scholars to tour the country. Fosis and YMO, while condemning violence, are ideological allies of the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamaat-i-Islami. It is ironic that conservative thinkers categorise these organisations accurately as part of an Islamist extreme right, while many on the left continue, wrongly, to see them as part of some wider international Muslim liberation movement.

While this situation remains, there is no shame for those on the left opposed to the rise of radical Islam to build alliances with conservatives prepared to call fascism by its real name.

Yes. Like (finally) George Bush.

Two days after my prediction that the Israelis would move north to the Litani River in Lebanon, they are doing it.

The Israelis see the “300-500” soldiers lives that will be lost in the exchange as worth the cost of the border security. Hezbollah says that Southern Lebanon will be a “graveyard”.

I disagree with Jacque Chirac who says that allowing continued hostilities “would mean the most immoral result”. It is immoral to demand status quo ante borders that are indefensible and an invitation to future hostilities and extra deaths on both sides of the Litani. Expect the second half of my prediction, a wall, to be built as soon as hostilities die down.

The new security procedures mean that the airlines are going to have to provide a lot more water, if you’re not allowed to bring your own.

[Update a little later, with a few more thoughts]

Women are going to get hit harder by this than men. They’re more likely to want to take their special liquids (shampoos, conditioners, etc.) that won’t necessarily be purchasable at the destination, in a carry on for a short trip. For the men, standard shampoo and toothpaste will be purchasable at the other end.

I predict that this is going to mean a lot more checked baggage. I wonder if they’ll be able to handle it?

I also think that as it gets more and more of a PITA to fly, at some point people are going to rebel, and demand that we adopt the Israeli approach–to start looking for terrorists, instead of weapons. Now that Mineta’s gone, the opposition to profiling may be reduced. It will be interesting in light of the Hamdan decision what the Supreme Court will have to say about it if it occurs and (as will be inevitable from the CAIR lawsuits) it hears a case.

Oh, and did you notice Bush’s speech today? He didn’t say we’re at war with terror. He said we’re at war with “Islamic fascists.” That’s a big improvement.

[Evening update]

I think that the new airline security policies are idiotic. I’ll explain why in a TCSDaily column. Probably Monday.

The new security procedures mean that the airlines are going to have to provide a lot more water, if you’re not allowed to bring your own.

[Update a little later, with a few more thoughts]

Women are going to get hit harder by this than men. They’re more likely to want to take their special liquids (shampoos, conditioners, etc.) that won’t necessarily be purchasable at the destination, in a carry on for a short trip. For the men, standard shampoo and toothpaste will be purchasable at the other end.

I predict that this is going to mean a lot more checked baggage. I wonder if they’ll be able to handle it?

I also think that as it gets more and more of a PITA to fly, at some point people are going to rebel, and demand that we adopt the Israeli approach–to start looking for terrorists, instead of weapons. Now that Mineta’s gone, the opposition to profiling may be reduced. It will be interesting in light of the Hamdan decision what the Supreme Court will have to say about it if it occurs and (as will be inevitable from the CAIR lawsuits) it hears a case.

Oh, and did you notice Bush’s speech today? He didn’t say we’re at war with terror. He said we’re at war with “Islamic fascists.” That’s a big improvement.

[Evening update]

I think that the new airline security policies are idiotic. I’ll explain why in a TCSDaily column. Probably Monday.

The new security procedures mean that the airlines are going to have to provide a lot more water, if you’re not allowed to bring your own.

[Update a little later, with a few more thoughts]

Women are going to get hit harder by this than men. They’re more likely to want to take their special liquids (shampoos, conditioners, etc.) that won’t necessarily be purchasable at the destination, in a carry on for a short trip. For the men, standard shampoo and toothpaste will be purchasable at the other end.

I predict that this is going to mean a lot more checked baggage. I wonder if they’ll be able to handle it?

I also think that as it gets more and more of a PITA to fly, at some point people are going to rebel, and demand that we adopt the Israeli approach–to start looking for terrorists, instead of weapons. Now that Mineta’s gone, the opposition to profiling may be reduced. It will be interesting in light of the Hamdan decision what the Supreme Court will have to say about it if it occurs and (as will be inevitable from the CAIR lawsuits) it hears a case.

Oh, and did you notice Bush’s speech today? He didn’t say we’re at war with terror. He said we’re at war with “Islamic fascists.” That’s a big improvement.

[Evening update]

I think that the new airline security policies are idiotic. I’ll explain why in a TCSDaily column. Probably Monday.