03.15.10
You wind up working for evil
In a supremely important WSJ column, Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn look squarely at the moral rot that inevitably ensues when American attorneys defend Gitmo-detained enemies.
02.16.10
A great development, but there are some considerations that merit discussion
Michelle Malkin lauds the capture of the Taliban biggie, but has some questions and observations.
01.23.10
And while the Taliban is rocking Kabul with missiles and small-arms fire
. . . our SecDef says that they must have a legitimate role in the political life of Afghanistan.
01.21.10
The latest regime initiative that may not happen
Commandante Holder may be reconsidering a civilian trial in lower Manhattan for KSM.
Those “shifting political winds in Congress” are gonna be a gift that keeps on giving.
01.10.10
Put down the glass of stupid juice and back away, President Saleh
What a guy to be dealing with – especially when out own president isn’t a damn sight better.
01.04.10
Helping to spread the basic message of 2010
There’s nothing particularly new in the message of this video. It’s a general sizing-up of America’s rage at being hijacked by the Freedom-Haters, but because the FHers are trying to eradicate it from YouTube and anywhere else on the web, I feel duty-bound to give it yet another outlet.
We will win this war, because we are not wrong.
01.03.10
TCM may call it vision; our enemies see it as weakness
One senses, from a perusal of top news stories from the past couple of weeks, a dark momentum gathering.
There was the forward-base bombing in Afghanistan that killed several top CIA field officers. There was the suicide bombing of the volleyball game in northwest Pakistan that killed at least 98. There was, of course, the incident with Great Balls of Fire in Detroit on Christmas.
Now, in a rich bit of irony, Iran, having run out the clock on TCM’s December 31 deadline for compliance with IAEA requirements to quit enriching uranium, is issuing an ultimatum to the West.
And the latest headline this morning is that the US and the UK are closing their embassies in Yemen on some tips about an al-Qaeda attack.
Rocket science isn’t required to, as they say, connect the dots. Jihadists are much like pirannhas.
TCM, the consummation of all Western leftist aspirations for a century, may see his approach to the world as some kind of grand sweeping-in of an age of “international community” and “fairness” and “hope” and eradication of poverty and such, but jihadists of all stripes – and residual communists, it’s useful to add – see it as the kind of opening they’ve been waiting for.
They see the several-days-gap between the rhetoric of “the system worked” and “isolated extremist” and “the system failed” and “apparently trained by al-Qaeda” and rightly conclude “ineptitude.” They see KSM get a civilian trial and Great Balls of Fire get lawyered up and think “idiots.” They read about John Kerry’s plans for a trip to Tehran and think “handing victory to us.”
It’s hard enough for the American people to maintain a sense of urgency in a situation that goes on for years. An infantile utopian vision like TCM’s can really muddy it. But then, when a series of developments comes along and those developments happen in ever-faster succession, maybe the public – polls on specific questions related to our war indicate this – gets out in front of its increasingly wobbly overlords and begins to reclaim common sense and the self-preservation instinct as its birthright.
12.31.09
The American people still have their hoss sense
Despite decades of attempt by the public-education system, the journalistic world, and the arts and entertainment industry to turn the nation’s public’s minds into oatmeal, we still know how things ought to be.
12.30.09
Ten reasons why TCM gets an F in the area of keeping us safe
Per Toby Harnden’s column today in the UK Telegraph:
1.) The repeated attempts by Abdulmutallab’s father to alert the CIA to his son’s radicalism
2.) the bureaucratic bloat of the organizations designed to adress national security (This is, of course, a problem that began under W, who was haphazard in his execution of this war even if he had the requisite sense of urgency, which TCM clearly does not)
3.) the CIA’s identification of A. in August as a “person of interest”
4.) TCM’s use of the term “isolated extremist” in his statement – three days after the attempted attack – when it’s clear that A is al-Qaeda through and through
5.) The regime’s overall minimization of the various terrorist incidents throughout this year
6.) Stigmatization of Gitmo as some kind of place where human rights are debased (Again, another problem begun under W, such as the release of Yemeni jihadists who went through the Saudi “rehabilitation” program and then went back to waging war)
7.) Janet Napolitano, who is a pathetic failure way in over her head
8.) the reluctance of TCM to seriously kick ass within his administration – that is, fire people
9.) the ongoing “what-we-inherited-from-W” whine
10.) lack of recognition of Yemen as a nest of jihadi trouble
12.07.09
They know it’s obscene and recklessly dangerous
The families of 9/11 victims, that is, know this about the civilian trial of KSM, which is why they came out in the bitter cold in NYC yesterday to protest this travesty.
11.22.09
The way the truth ought to be articulated
Brit Hume is one of those observers of the world who brings a seasoned and tempered demeanor to his spot-on assessments of key developments. Always a gentleman, with a sincere desire to know God in his heart, leavened with a bit of worldly-wise humor, he says without hoke or hype what is thunderously true.
Case in point, what he had to say today on Fox News Sunday about TCM’s foreign policy.
Money line: “America is not what’s wrong with the world.”
