Rule of thumb in fighting terrorist attacks: if the Israelis offer advice, take it. Israeli spokesmen say that in Mumbai, Indian troops stormed the hotels too soon, without gathering enough intelligence first. There is no country on earth with the … Continue reading →
The terror in Mumbai angers me, but it doesn’t surprise. Any shock that this sort of thing can be planned and executed with such vicious intent went away long ago, on 9/11. Perhaps even before that. We don’t have many … Continue reading →
I found the following tangential nugget about the long-term consequences of one of Bill Clinton’s Presidential moves buried in an article on the surprising amount of cooperation that seems to be developing between the outgoing Bush Administration and the incoming … Continue reading →
One of the saddest effects of this sorry campaign season is that Bill Ayers is a hot commodity again, and the MSM gives him a forum to recast himself as a nice ole pussy cat. Does anyone for a moment … Continue reading →
Obama has long been trumpeting Afghanistan as the important front in this war, and so he has to keep on doing it. Going to Iraq and talking to Petraeus was a smokescreen; Obama knows much better than Petraeus what’s important. … Continue reading →
In an Ann Althouse thread about how she was turned off by Obama’s saying “you’re not listening” to critics accusing him of changing his Iraq stand, my attention was caught by a pro-Obama statement in the comments section: And he’ll … Continue reading →
Commenter “gringo” wrote in earlier thread: Re keeping hands clean. That was one motive for my becoming a Conscientious Objector during the Vietnam War. The genocide in Cambodia changed my mind. One has “clean hands” and stands on the sidelines … Continue reading →
Here’s an excellent summary by law professor John Yoo of how the Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush is a case of egregious judicial overreach: First out the window went precedent. Under the writ of habeas corpus, Americans (and … Continue reading →
Jimmy Carter is planning a dialogue with Hamas. And he’s remarkably unapologetic about it, despite requests from both Washington and Israel to cease and desist: Former President Carter said he feels “quite at ease” about meeting Hamas militants over the … Continue reading →
I read this Spencer Ackerman piece with some interest, thinking it promised to define Obama’s foreign policy. And, since Obama has been roundly criticized for being all rhetoric, with no “there” there (as Gertrude Stein would say), I was looking … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you, but when I read this piece in the Times Online about Imad Mughniyeh’s (their spelling) assassination, I couldn’t help but feel it had just a smidgen of sympathy in it. Sympathy, that is, for the … Continue reading →
If the war in Iraq is so dreadful that it serves as a recruiting tool for terrorists, why is the insurgency there reduced to resorting to Down’s Syndrome suicide bombers?
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