I’m worried. I’ve been fighting this feeling for awhile and tried to avoid appearing reactionary or overreactionary to recent events, but I’m worried. Something is happening here and it isn’t pretty. I’ve grown to distrust modern liberalism. Its adherents keep changing the U.S. into something it’s not supposed to be and wasn’t meant to be. [...]
During the campaign, Joe Biden infamously observed that now President-elect Obama would be intentionally challenged with a foreign policy crisis within the administration’s first six months, a statement he then followed up by stating that it won’t be initially apparent that they’re right (no word on whether they’d subsequently appear right either). “Mark my words. [...]
My absence from my beloved blog is regrettable, and somewhat avoidable, but I’m a busy guy. I figured before the election takes place, I might as well give my view on things as they’ve been building up over the last few months. And so this post will be a bit long. But it’s good. First, [...]
ABC is reporting that the CIA is rushing resources into Pakistan to find Osama bin Laden: Armed with fresh intelligence, the CIA is moving additional man power and equipment into Pakistan in the effort to find Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri, U.S. officials tell ABC News. “Reports that the trail has [...]
CQ found this gem among the captured Iraqi documents that have been declassified and translated. It’s a speech Saddam wrote for the dedication of a mosque in 2002. It’s about his mustache. Excerpts: God has blessed us, and in us, he has blessed our mustaches, as well as any mustache jealous for his nation, his [...]
“Poll: Majority of Americans want withdrawal plan for Iraq” says the USA Today headline. If you go to the poll results, though, you find the following: 17% said withdraw immediately. 33% said withdraw in 12 months. That makes 50%, which is not a majority; it’s half. 41% said withdraw, but keep troops in Iraq as [...]
In an LA Times editorial, Madeleine Albright takes the Bush administration to task for shaping foreign policy around ‘good and evil.’ Essentially, that it’s not nuanced and pragmatic enough, which has been the common complaint from the left. Her nuanced advice for the middle-east is to enter into constructive dialogue with Iran about its nuclear [...]
Hugo Chavez is continuing his dictatorial ways in Venezuela. One of a tyrant’s favorite things to do is to continually reshape his country’s symbols and institutions to his liking. By restructuring the institutions, he makes the machinery of government loyal to him. By remaking the symbols, he makes the people loyal to him as their [...]
Sunnis and native insurgents in Iraq are starting to band together to kick out foreign al-Qaeda fighters. This isn’t the first report I’ve seen on the phenomenon and it isn’t terribly surprising. The problem is that the three groups do not share the same ends. The insurgents’ primary end is to get Americans out of [...]
Providing a paradigm example of irony, many furious Muslims around the world have taken to the streets committing acts of violence in protest of cartoons that implied Muslims were violent. There’s nothing quite like playing to type. Thus far, mobs have torched a few embassies, some neighborhoods have been roughed up, a few protesters have [...]
There’s all sorts of uproar among many Muslims about the cartoons of Mohammed that were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten last September. It’s supposedly against the Koran or a surah or some such to produce visual representations of the prophet. So for the paper to do was, again, supposedly a great affront and insult [...]
MM notes this New York Sun story about Saddam Hussein’s former second in command of the air force. He’s claiming that Hussein smuggled WMDs into Syria aboard modified passenger planes. It wouldn’t surprise me if what he says is true. We haven’t found any WMDs in Iraq, this is true. My concern, though, has always [...]
HuffPo has a regular contributor named Hooman Majd, who’s a real interesting guy because he’s taken up the challenge of consistently defending Iran in all its crazy glory. In one post, he argues for Iran developing a nuclear program because it will run out of oil in 30 years. He admits that it could build [...]
The Middle East Peace Process (TM) has certainly been put in an interesting spot with Hamas taking control of the Palestinian government. Hamas’s avowed goal is the destruction of Israel and it’s recognized as a terrorist organization by the U.S., the EU, and others. At the moment, Israel has said it will not speak to [...]
If Cindy Sheehan hasn’t already jumped the shark, she certainly did with her little jaunt to Venezuela. She’s in Caracas this week for the World Social Forum, which is an anti-globalist and anti-American group. She’s there talking about how she doesn’t like Bush, how the troops should come home, the U.S. shouldn’t be meddling in [...]