Archive for Afghanistan
Whiz Kids
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Four marines were photographed taking a leak on dead Taliban. Hillary finds it deplorable. Apparently, however, this will not dampen our efforts to give more money to Afghanistan.
Winning is for Losers
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“These long wars will come to a responsible end”, so says the president. Winning is out. Responsible ending is in. Other than in politics and pro sports (NCAA included), winning has become less than cool.
Like drinking responsibly, it’s hard to argue with ending responsibly. It just doesn’t sound like much fun. But it has to be done, in order to win in Nov 2012.
War Games
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I didn’t watch Obama’s speech about “recovering the surge” in Afghanistan. But I hear he wants to ditch the war so he can move on to “nation building” in the homeland.
The war and the economy are dragging the president down in the polls. Yesterday he tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to supplement the oil we get from from the drilling jobs we paid for in Brazil.
I think I like the war more than I used to.
Obama Enigma
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Osama Bin Laden sleeps with the fishes.
Under President Obama’s orders to go mano a mano, Navy Seals shot and killed the Evil One in cold blood. His Miranda rights were not read and he won’t be tried in a civilian court. His corpse was thrown on a helicopter and flown to a ship in the Arabian Sea where it was dumped overboard. All well and good.
But hard to square with a president who wanted Gitmo closed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in Manhattan, and considered prosecuting CIA interrogators to show the superiority of American justice. On the other hand, Obama has blown over 1500 terror suspects to smithereens.
In a display of respect, bin Laden’s body was washed and prepared for burial according to Islamic custom. His demise will not be verified by photos because “that’s not who we are… we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies”.
That won’t wash with the Muslim world.
Cave Dweller
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It turns out bin Laden’s cave was in a million dollar compound, in the resort town of Abbottabad, about 800 yards from Pakistan’s military academy.
Holy Smoke
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Pyro Pastor Terry Jones torches a Quran in Florida and 20 people die in Afghanistan. It’s a miracle! No, wait, it’s a mob. Here’s General Petraeus:
“Every security force leader’s worst nightmare is being confronted by essentially a mob, if you will, especially one that can be influenced by individuals that want to incite violence, who want to try to hijack passions, in this case, perhaps understandable passions,”
Hope pastor Jones can’t draw Muhammad cartoons.
Federal Power
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A federal judge ruled that the federal government doesn’t have the power to make you go out and buy something you otherwise wouldn’t – health care in this case. The government claims its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce gives it the right to do just that.
Nat Hentoff doesn’t think any clause of the constitution gives the government the right to assassinate its own citizens who become jihadists.
Whacky WikiWorld
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WikiLeaks leader, Julian Assange, doesn’t care for the United States’ meddling in world affairs. Yet his recent document dump showed that it’s Iran’s Arab neighbors who most want the U.S. to take out Iranian nukes. Other tasty morsels include a very close relationship between Putin and Berlusconi, Sarkozy as a “naked emperor“, an Afghan vice president with $50 million in cash, and Gadhafi’s voluptuous Ukranian nurse.
A Stone’s Throw from Civilization
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The wisdom of the voters is hard to comprehend when the local electorate is busy stoning young couples. To their elected leader’s credit, President Karzai condemned the act of Sharia Law.
Cartoon Overkill
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This story in the Daily Telegraph says some informants may be identified, and at risk, in the Wikileaks dump of 90,000 documents.