Sunday roundup
I try to take Sunday off, but there’s so much temptation in the form of news today that I’m doing the linkage thing:
(1) Cop shooting suspect arrested in Ferguson:
A 20-year-old protester has been charged with shooting two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., last week, authorities said Sunday.
County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said Jeffrey Williams was charged with two counts of assault in the first degree, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and thee counts of armed criminal action.
McCulloch said Williams admitted firing the shots but said he was shooting at someone else.
“We’re not sure we buy that part of it,” McCulloch said, adding that the handgun used in the shooting has been recovered.
At the moment, I’m pretty sure I don’t buy it. I’m reserving judgment, of course, but unless some sort of striking evidence turns up that substantiates his story, I have a tendency to think a felon (suspended sentence for receiving stolen property and credit card fraud) doesn’t just fire into a crowd and happen to hit two police officers because he’s being robbed by some unknown assailant. Fortunately, they may be able to locate some surveillance footage of the scene which will shed light on what happened.
(2) If you’re baffled by Israeli politics, so is just about everybody. Here’s an article to help you sort out what’s happening with Netanyahu and the election, and what the results might be. Related news is that the Senate is investigating whether the Obama administration has given aid to the opposition trying to unseat Netanyahu. This would certainly be consistent with everything I know about Obama and his history of election dirty tricks.
(3) John Bolton has called Obama’s negotiations with Iran “an unprecedented act of surrender.” I agree, and I think that’s key to understanding why the Republicans wrote that letter to Iran and why even some Democrats are on board as being against Obama’s deal.
The word “unprecedented” is used so often that it’s become a boring cliche, but it is the correct word to apply to Obama’s attitude towards Iran and nuclear weapons. Even Chamberlain, the best precedent I can think of, appeased Hitler when England didn’t really have a lot of military preparedness and was in a relatively weak position. What’s Obama’s excuse? Nothing. He is going against years of bipartisan agreement in US policy towards Iran, and he is doing it without much support even from his own party, much less bipartisan support. And he has the perfect partner in crime for the task of needless, unforced capitulation: John Kerry, who has a long history of negotiating with the enemy. Kerry’s been waiting his whole adult life for just such a moment.
[ADDENDUM: This is what I wrote when I first heard that Kerry would probably be nominated for the Secretary of Defense job (although he ended up as SOS instead). It contains some of his testimony on Vietnam.
In addition, see this post of mine written during the 2008 campaign, when Kerry defended then-candidate Obama’s idea of talking with Iran. I am convinced that this sort of thing is why Hillary was replaced as SOS with Kerry, who has long been on the same page as Obama on foreign policy.]
neo writes, “I try to take Sunday off, . . . .”
neo, you more than earn your Sunday off. Go 4 it!
Bolton’s statement reminds me that in his remarks on Iraq to Pentagon personnel on February 17, 1998, Clinton warned against the broader consequences of tolerating Saddam’s noncompliance:
Bush took Clinton’s warning to heart when he enforced Iraq’s compliance with UNSCR 687.
The Gulf War ceasefire enforcement of the “governing standard of Iraqi compliance” (UNSCR 1441) was the defining international enforcement of the post-Cold War. If the US had backed down when Saddam called our bluff in his “final opportunity to comply” (UNSCR 1441), then enforcement of international norms and mandates with rogue actors and WMD proscription would have been undermined, perhaps beyond recovery.
Apparently, Obama took Clinton’s warning on Iraq as advice on the way ahead for Iran.
It’s a simple formulation in the political discourse:
If Bush was wrong on Iraq, then Obama is right on Iran.
If Bush was right on Iraq, then Obama is wrong on Iran.
Today, the prevailing Narrative asserts that Bush was wrong on Iraq, which means … as always, the activist game is the only social political game there is.
McCulloch said Williams admitted firing the shots but said he was shooting at someone else.
“We’re not sure we buy that part of it,” McCulloch said, adding that the handgun used in the shooting has been recovered.
Williams can always claim that it was a random shooting, like the POTUS did about the shootings in the deli in Paris. [I doubt that the POTUS would have claimed that shootings in a Halal butcher shop would have been random.]
Chamberlain at least started rearming when things started to go south.
Here, not so much…
That Obama might be involving himself and/or some of his supporters in Israeli politics doesn’t surprise me; after all, Netanyahu had the “audacity” to not do as Obama commanded to dismantle West Bank settlements.
So, of course, Obama would go after him – in any way that he can get away with. And given the news media turning a blind eye to Obama’s misdeeds, or in many cases actually carrying Obama’s sedan chair for him, Obama could get away with a lot of messing in Israeli politics.
I would love to see the senate investigate Obama in every way possible; and hopefully, that there is no Gerald Ford to pardon him. And, take down that modern-day “Marie Antoinette” with him!
Don’t make us take up a collection to fund people to keep you off the net on Sunday.
charles: “I would love to see the senate investigate Obama in every way possible;”
I doubt it wouldn hurt him. Obama is based is in the Left, not the Democrats.
Munich falls on PARIS not London.
Once the French informed the British that their army would NEVER move against Hitler to save Prague — the deal was the best that Chamberlain could’ve possibly gotten.
Britain was in absolutely NO POSITION to do anything else.
An amphibious invasion of Hitlerite Germany was a military impossibility.
Chamberlain’s error was in the propaganda conflict.
He should NEVER have made a big splash — and NEVER opined that he’d delivered peace in ‘our time.’
WHAT A GOOF.
All of the objective observers realized that the can was only kicked down the road.
BTW, ALL during this era, Chamberlain is spending on British national defense in a crazed fashion.
Churchill fought WWII with Chamberlain’s weapons. Period.
No significant weapons system initiated by Winnie ever saw action. The Centurion tank just missed the entire conflict! (It did come in handy for the Israelis decades later.)
Benjamin Netanyahu babysitter ad:
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/03/benjamin-netanyahu-babysitter-ad.html
We shouldn’t insult Neville Chamberlain by comparing him to Obama.
The British Prime Minister got the biggest issue of the day wrong. But no one ever doubted that he loved his country. That’s why, after his eviction from Downing Street, Churchill kept him on in his ministry as Lord President of the Council, and indeed made Chamberlain part of the five-man war cabinet and had him chair it during his frequent absences. When he died of cancer in October 1940, Churchill wept over his coffin….
… The real problem with Obama is that the citizens of the global superpower twice elected him to office. Yet one way to look at the current “leader of the free world” is this: If he were working for the other side, what exactly would he be doing differently?…
Source: O Beautiful, For Specious Guys…
TWICE!
Kerry’s a legend!:
Secretary of State John Kerry compared himself to Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and other great historical luminaries for having the courage and tenacity to tackle the most heinous enemy plaguing mankind – climate change.
“My heroes are people who dared to take on great challenges without knowing for certain what the outcome would be,” Kerry said in an address to the Atlantic Council on Thursday.
“Lincoln took risks, Gandhi took risks, Churchill took risks, Dr. King took risks, Mandela took risks, but that doesn’t mean that every risk-taker is a role model.”
See video
In these circumstances it is of the utmost importance to stay … rational.
g6loq, as far as I can tell, Kerry’s greatest success was in marrying rich women.
He sure knows how to keep himself in ketchup …
Again, we.must.stay.rational.we.much…..
It is all so much yakkity yak. They do not flinch at words, they worship death; give it to them in spades. Where there is rubble turn it into sand, after sand comes dust, after dust turn it into molecules, turn mollecules innto subatomic particles. Until great satan acts like great satan great satan is a soggy paper satan.
on (1)…
now can we go back to the news clips of the black national socialists in the goernment in furgeson claiming that the shooting must be tea party, militias, white men, etc? you can tell they are black nazis, because they wear fedoras from the 1940s… the other way you can tell is that when things are uncertain, they just know its a plot of white men, not anyone else…
Black Activist: White Militia Group May Be Responsible For Shooting Ferguson Cops
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/12/black-activist-white-militia-group-may-be-responsible-for-shooting-ferguson-cops/
Martin Davis, an author and activist, appeared on Tim Constantine’s D.C.-based radio show Thursday and said he suspects the shooter was part of some type of white militia trying to cause chaos.
“What I’m thinking is it was either somebody who was some type of great sharpshooter, some type of militia, some type of, you know, just person who wanted to see chaos that night,” Davis said on the show. “Because I really just don’t see somebody hitting those officers the way they did at that distance that’s a novice with a firearm.”
[ie. blacks cant shoot, so it must be a whitey.. now that its a black drive by (with a pistol at 125 feet!!), will he issue a statement correcting what he said so that people in the black community that look to him would know? of course not… what does he care about his people and the trouble they can get into acting out on his lies?]
and occupy wallstreet…
Why Isn’t the Tea Party Sending a Militia to Ferguson?
http://occupywallstreet.net/story/why-isnt-tea-party-sending-militia-ferguson
[cause then you would blame them for things they didnt do? hard to do that if they are not there]
NATO says it counted more than 100 intercepts of Russian planes into members’ airspace last year, three times more than in 2013. The intercepts have forced civilian planes to change their courses and Britain scrambled Typhoon interceptor planes after two long-range bombers flew over the English Channel.