Archives for the 'GWOT' Category
Change That Matters
Published on 16 Nov 2008 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Obama.
Appears increasingly to be occurring within Obama policy positions. Roundup on shifting “change” goalposts starts with Hot Air, reporting on indicators that even as the incoming Obamists struggle with that thorny Guantanamo issue, they are looking at the idea of leaving CIA’s interrogation options open.
So Good
Published on 13 Nov 2008 at 9:54 am.
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Filed under Bush, GWOT, pols.
They want to come back for more. Just because Bush is going to be out of office in two months doesn’t mean the great national Bush bash has to end. Ironic fly in the bitter ointment: NYT, on plans by pols to keep bashing the Bush pinata, notes the precedent set by Harry Truman allowing ex-presidents [...]
Obama’s War On Terrorizing
Published on 12 Nov 2008 at 8:06 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Guantanamo, Obama, illegals.
Malkin on the Bush admin’s campaign present to Obama: immigration law enforcement was halted for 72 hours to avoid any inadvertant, or advertant, embarrassment that might result from fugitive alien Aunti Zeituni or any other stray relatives getting the boot. In fairness, it was a no-win. Aunti in cuffs would have been seen as a [...]
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Beirut
Published on 23 Oct 2008 at 11:57 am.
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Filed under GWOT, lebanon, military.
25 years ago today. One of the early losses in this long war. I am preparing for the Feith event tonight. The significance of discussing where we are today on such an anniversary had not escaped me, but I’ll let the Armorer do the honors, with links and a listing of the names of the dead.
Rights Concern Prompts Poesy In Al-Britainiyah
Published on 12 Oct 2008 at 2:18 pm.
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Filed under Britain, GWOT, literary, moronocy.
Outraged Brit scribblers publish poetry, satire, essays vs. Brit anti-terrorism 42-day detention law. Online Advent-style calendar makes a great Christmas gift, nicely complements ”There Once Was a Man from Riyadh …” the collection of limericks decrying car bombs and beheadings that they published back in ‘04 …
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Prison Ships
Published on 2 Jun 2008 at 8:15 am.
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Filed under GWOT, do-goodism, hated Crusaders.
Breathless UK Guardian article parrots a Brit advocacy group’s claim that United States has a fleet of prison ships, and has the US holding “at least 26,000 without trial in secret prisons.” 100 people “disappeared” from Somalia.
More Jihadi-Stopping Power, Please
Published on 26 May 2008 at 9:13 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, Jihad, guns, hated Crusaders.
AP of all news organizations is making the case for more killing power for hated Crusaders, pitching the quick kill/knock-down benefits of the M14 with its hefty 7.62mm slug over the M4 and M16’s daintier 5.56mm round.
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Dawn Patrol
Published on 20 May 2008 at 10:29 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, blogs.
The always great Mudville Gazette goes deep with views into all aspects of the world of war we live in, as seen by those who are in it deeper than most of us. Scroll through today’s here. Interesting piece on Jude Law, not reading from a script, all kinds of good vid and a bad prisoner swap, [...]
Persistence
Published on 20 May 2008 at 9:22 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, military, pols.
LTC Gregory Grimes of U.S. Special Operations Command argues the case for persistence as a 10th Principle of War at Small Wars Journal. It’s a highly technical argument, based on the emergence of persistent military technology, the UAV. I’d suggest, at a time when we are in danger of disengaging from the enemy for no [...]
US Bashers Wanted
Published on 20 May 2008 at 9:21 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, blogs.
And found! The ACLU lines up the sock puppet and other lefty bloggers to “kick off” their new “Blog of Rights” with a sneaker party all over the Department of Justice re torture. via Stop the ACLU.
Funny, I was mocking the ACLU’s U.S.-bashing bias, distorted sense of proportion and selective reporting just this morning. This new [...]
Civil Rights Groups Outraged Over Child Abuse in War
Published on 20 May 2008 at 11:26 am.
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Filed under GWOT, kids.
No, they’re not outraged at al Qaeda, the Taliban or Iraqi insurgents for using children as terrorists. Don’t be ridiculous. They’re outraged at the United States for holding them. AP: UN reports US holding +500 kids as unlawful enemy combatants. Here’s the ACLU on the issue:
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Bring It On
Published on 19 May 2008 at 7:33 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Iran, pols.
That’s Bolton re Obama and the foreign policy debate. WSJ:
More Dire Portents
Published on 16 May 2008 at 11:38 am.
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Filed under GWOT, pols.
Clarke via Peggy Noonan at WSJ: Short-term pessimistic, long-term optimistic. For Congress maybe but the presidency is McCain’s to lose, Dem “this is the year” chatter notwithstanding. And he will if he stays on the fantasy meme.
Meanwhile, a partisan McCain gotcha that doesn’t quite get. James Rubin at Washington Post:
Bully Pulpit
Published on 15 May 2008 at 12:59 pm.
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Filed under Bush, GWOT, pols.
Bush observes out loud that Obama and other dems are pro-appeasement. CNN:
Old Ways
Published on 15 May 2008 at 9:26 am.
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Filed under GWOT, warmalism.
Maybe this means we ought to think about cranking up a 10th Crusade and replacing the Koran-flushing with the Iron Maiden at Guantanamo. Blair on greenies for traditional medieval methods. (sarcasm/satire alert for any obtuse lefty dolts linking in … then again, who knows? Maybe the old ways are better. They reversed the Mohammedan tide back then, after all, and inaugurated [...]
Fallen American
Published on 9 May 2008 at 10:34 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, GWOT, academia, military.
Doesn’t really look like the kind of guy who would be killed in the lead Humvee of a four-vehicle combat patrol, riding with the 101st Airborne’s Task Force Currahee in Khowst Province, does he? A little bookish, maybe. But it maybe there’s something there in the eyes. Hard to tell from a snapshot. Easy to read it in, [...]
Crack of Dawn?
Published on 9 May 2008 at 11:17 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Iran, lebanon.
Hezbollah’s renewed war on Lebanon flicks on a light for a lefty scribbler, who has the passing thought the world may be an evil place. No kidding. There’s a whole axis of the stuff. Hop, skip and a jump from there to … you know. Maybe this Leb thing could be a(nother) big learning moment.
House of Submission, House of War
Published on 28 Apr 2008 at 9:07 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Islam, Jihad, hated Crusaders.
Bruce Bawer at City Journal on western submission in time of war. via Memeorandum.
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Zbig Ideas
Published on 29 Mar 2008 at 11:18 pm.
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Filed under GWOT.
Zbigniew with the “smart” way out of Iraq at Washington Post. It’s a kind of magical realism. It’s responsible abandonment with a heavy reliance on the unreliable. There’s regional rehab and talks with Iran, where we need to learn to be better givers. Israeli-Palestinian peace floats without apparent reference to the remarkable accomplishment of the Bush administration. The best [...]
Goobers vs. Boobies
Published on 28 Mar 2008 at 7:31 am.
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Filed under GWOT, boobs, moronocy.
This is America. People should be free to mutilate themselves without being subjected to harrassment from their government. In fact, correct me if I’m wrong, but a big part of what this war is about is protecting the right of women to pierce their nipples. Or in any case, protecting the right of the kind of [...]
Kinder, Gentler Superpower
Published on 22 Mar 2008 at 9:46 am.
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Filed under America, GWOT, Iraq, academia.
Envisioned by Shawn Brimley, the Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security,* who says in this essay at Small Wars Journal we need to be willing to use force, yet not in ways that piss people off. There is of course a fundamental disconnect there, and Brimley’s opening Bush-bash fails to notice that a big [...]
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Silent Majority
Published on 1 Mar 2008 at 10:19 am.
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Filed under GWOT.
… of moderate Muslims trumped by explosive minority. But Totten serves up some nuance and optimism, along with an Iraqi idyll that offers more cause for optimism:
Obama Flap
Published on 23 Feb 2008 at 6:12 am.
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Filed under GWOT, pols.
Over milprep, platoon-split remarks. It couldn’t possibly be true, it’s absolutely true. So who’s more unarmed, ill-prepared re Afghanistan, Iraq? US military or Obama? Ironic question:
Hezbo Salute
Published on 18 Feb 2008 at 1:44 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, Nazis, lebanon.
To fallen mass murderer of Jews and Americans Imad Mughniyeh. LGF with the art grab of the day, observes that the AP caption fails to note significance of straight-arm salute. I bet the hated Zionists have noted it though. Hey Mossad, turn that into a “We who are about to die salute you” moment and you [...]
Extended Chickenhawk Rant
Published on 17 Feb 2008 at 5:25 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, moronocy.
Makes up in verbosity what it lacks in originality, but by and large not a bad example of the snotty cluelessness of the genre. By chickendove exemplar Glenn (surrendering from afar) Greenwald.
Prior sockpuppet scholarship:
UPDATE MCMLXVIII
Lacking Even the Ethics of a Journalist!
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Choc-had!
Published on 17 Feb 2008 at 10:50 am.
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Filed under GWOT, free speech.
Something rotten in Denmark as crazy Danes* march for Almond Chocolate Bar. To bean or not to bean, that is the question. Whether ’tis Tobler to …
Unsafe At Any Speed
Published on 17 Feb 2008 at 7:31 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Syria, lebanon.
Mugh wacked with explosive headrest, compliments of Israel, exiting a party at the Iranian “cultural” center, says Times of London:
Mugh’s Martyrdom Reax
Published on 15 Feb 2008 at 5:40 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, Syria, lebanon.
Here’s one of 241 American mothers. Boston Herald:
Unserious
Published on 15 Feb 2008 at 6:30 am.
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Filed under GWOT, moronocy, pols.
Powerline does the honors on the Dem Cong. “Day of infamy … one of many.”
American War Crimes
Published on 14 Feb 2008 at 8:00 am.
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Filed under GWOT.
To be showcased by star chamber proceedings for freedom fighters trapped in Kafkaesque American gulag. Nicholas Kristof, NYT op-ed:
Waterboarding Bad!
Published on 14 Feb 2008 at 7:11 am.
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Filed under GWOT, pols.
Votes a morally indignant Dem Senate, acting on the highest principles. Principles detailed below. Opposing the anti-waterboarding vote is principled maverick McCain, who oddly seems to be acting on other principles. NYT:
Motoons Reprised
Published on 14 Feb 2008 at 6:54 am.
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Filed under GWOT, free speech.
Danish newspapers reprint in solidarity.
Barracks Bomber
Published on 14 Feb 2008 at 6:20 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Syria, lebanon.
Car-bombed. Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mugniyeh won’t be down for pita bread:
Tragedy Lessened
Published on 12 Feb 2008 at 7:30 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, GWOT.
Community religious leader, two 15-year-old sons tragically killed by jihadi mine in Afghanistan. Theirs. Ace. Lesser, higher tragedy roundup:
“This Has To Happen.”
Published on 12 Feb 2008 at 7:05 am.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
Julie Sweeney Roth at the Boston Herald:
9/11 Charges
Published on 11 Feb 2008 at 1:00 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
Murder, war crimes charges for six Guantanamo detainees in military tribunals. About time.
Book of the Year
Published on 11 Feb 2008 at 9:23 am.
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Filed under GWOT, blogs, books.
Powerline awards it to Norman Podhoretz’s “World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamo-Fascism” and will deliver an anonymous donor’s $25,000 in Podhoretz’s name to Soldier’s Angels. Powerline is out-awarding the majors … Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle … and for a good cause. I’d call it a blogosphere arrival moment, echoing Scott at Powerline who, in true [...]
Personal Memorabilia Violation
Published on 7 Feb 2008 at 12:15 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, flags.
Verizon to vet: Flag out of sight, inside the cubicle only, thanks. Boston Herald:
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Water Over Dam
Published on 6 Feb 2008 at 9:06 pm.
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Filed under Bush, GWOT.
Backs up. Bush offered to discuss waterboarding. Congress responded with a call for a criminal investigation. Better make sure they look at all the Dems who got briefed and didn’t say boo. That doesn’t get a mention in this article.
Neo-Taliban
Published on 5 Feb 2008 at 9:40 pm.
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Filed under GWOT.
Or same shit, different day. As you like. Reuters:
Islamo-Feminism
Published on 2 Feb 2008 at 9:41 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Islam.
It’s an explosive movement. Secure yourself a place in the belly of a green bird roosting on a chandelier danging from the Throne of Paradise, ladies. Doesn’t sound quite as appealing as 72 virgins, but after a life of burkhadom, it might look good. MEMRI:
Lesson to be Recorded on the Pages of History in Letters of Gold
Published on 30 Jan 2008 at 11:13 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Pakistan.
Mehsud, the guy giving the Pak army a hard time, has quite a turn of phrase. A few conceptual problems as he takes his spiritual guidance from the illiterate, one-eyed Mullah Omar, slags the US for murdering innocent Japanese and admires bin Laden for doing likewise with Christians and Jews. Anyway, the interesting news is [...]
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Torture
Published on 30 Jan 2008 at 7:29 am.
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Filed under GWOT.
Congress hauls Mukasey out of his cell for another waterboarding session. Gabriel Malor at Ace describes his own waterboarding by the CHP and wonders why Congress, if it hates waterboarding so much, doesn’t outlaw it.
Related but different, Belmont Club mulls the debate over the role of you-know-what in the you-know-what on you-know-what. You know. What? [...]
Love for Obama
Published on 26 Jan 2008 at 10:35 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Hollywood, celeb, pols.
Inspired by visit to troops whose sacrifices Obama would like to waste? I don’t get it, but Scarlett Johansson is an actress, and they are hired to read scripts convincingly, not write them.
Rusty’s Internet Jihad
Published on 19 Jan 2008 at 8:45 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Internet, Jihad, dhimmi, hated Crusaders.
vs. Internet Jihad. Filthy infidel of a Crusader pig attacks righteous cyberMuj and the Dhimmi who provide them aid and comfort.
Killing Israeli Children: Bad
Published on 19 Jan 2008 at 8:23 am.
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Filed under GWOT, middle east.
Allah will curse those who do this. This admonishment from a Syrian mufti and much more at MEMRI’s massive roundup of the week in Arab and Iranian news. It’s a treasure trove. Let’s see … leading member of the Saudi Fatwa Committee: Suicide bombers doomed to eternal torment in hell … ooh, that’s bad. I [...]
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Worse Than Gitmo
Published on 19 Jan 2008 at 7:58 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Islam, saudi arabia.
Fascinating interview with Saudi women’s rights activist Wajiha Al-Huweidar, in which she states that the condition of women in Saudi Arabia is worse than that of the men imprisoned at the hated Crusader Gulag of Guantanamo. That and more on the malaise affecting her society … and, as a result, ours. MEMRI:
Bin Laden Peace Initiative
Published on 18 Jan 2008 at 8:40 am.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda, moronocy.
This should be good. I’m starting to like this guy.
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All Roads Lead to Pakistan
Published on 15 Jan 2008 at 8:02 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, GWOT, Pakistan.
As the Taliban continues its tradition of murdering innocent, unarmed civilians in brazen hotel attack. Round-up of allegedly Pak-based attack, Pak-bound arrests:
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Al Qaeda Weighs In
Published on 7 Jan 2008 at 6:57 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Pakistan, al qaeda.
On Waziristan peace talks, offs 8 tribal elders who were talking to Pak security forces.
If not AQ, then Taliban, or someone who shares their goals, not to put to fine a point on it. H/t Reader Steve who suggests these scalps belong to NYT, all the news that’s fit for a jihadi headsup, but I’d [...]
