Just like Megan McArdle. I don’t even drink coffee, so I’m even more un-American than she is. If I were the market, Starbucks wouldn’t exist. And I don’t even like watching thrillers that much, let alone try to come up with them.
I’m Un-American, Too
Just like Megan McArdle. I don’t even drink coffee, so I’m even more un-American than she is. If I were the market, Starbucks wouldn’t exist. And I don’t even like watching thrillers that much, let alone try to come up with them.
Is Global Jihad Falling Apart?
The end of Saddam was the end of a major financer of the Global Islamic Jihad Movement. His money no longer flows through Rahman into the madrassas and terror training camps. The stress of losing Saddam and his wealth, plus being soundly defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, has caused the terrorist leaders alliance to crack. Add to that the loss of support from the UAE and Libya, and the financial cost to al Qaeda has been enormous. Not only has al Qaeda been defeated on the battlefield, funding has become a challenge for the Global Islamic Jihad Movement.
But the separation of Hekmatyar from the Taliban is not the only indication that the movement has fractured. Asia Times reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad has written this week that the relationship between al Qaeda and the Taliban has faltered. If it is true (his reporting before has been insightful) this is one of the most significant developments in the war on terror. Divide and conquer still applies as a useful maxim.
I never fail to be amazed at people who seriously believe that it would have been a good idea to leave Saddam in power.
But They’re Not Cutting And Running
Finally, the Democrats have found a strategic redeployment that they can actually implement.
But They’re Not Cutting And Running
Finally, the Democrats have found a strategic redeployment that they can actually implement.
But They’re Not Cutting And Running
Finally, the Democrats have found a strategic redeployment that they can actually implement.
Sorry For The Down Time
Had to do an Apache upgrade on the server, and there were some glitches. Things should be OK now.
Myths Of Military Space
Jim Oberg has a dozen of them. But I’m sure that the fantasists will persist in their anti-US propaganda.
And while I think that a ban on destructive anti-satellite weapons is unrealistic and unverifiable, I agree that a ban on testing them, at least in orbit, is a good idea.
He Gets It
I’ve never been a big Ted Koppel or Nightline fan, but unlike many of his fellow Democrats (that’s an assumption, but I think a reasonable one), he understands that we are at war (it may help that he’s Jewish), and have been for a quarter century, even if many of us didn’t figure it out until five years ago. Unfortunately, many remain in denial.
Learning From History
Looks like we’re getting some new neighbors here in south Florida. From France:
There are no official U.S. government figures on the number of French Jews here, but officials in U.S. Jewish organizations said it could be anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 in South Florida — mostly Miami-Dade.
”I would say they’re in the thousands now,” said Mendy Levy, a rabbi at The Shul synagogue in Surfside.
”There is no question of an increase in the number of French Jews in South Florida, and there’s an expectation that that rate of increase will accelerate,” said Jacob Solomon, executive vice president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. ‘French Jews see the handwriting on the wall and say, `We’re not going to wait until it’s too late.’ ”