Having re-elected the Obamessiah, we Americans are going to at least in part be responsible for the now almost-inevitable major war now brewing in the area between Libya's Western border and India's Eastern border.  Oh, the Muslim Terrorist States will be guilty of the war crimes, but we will be guilty of sitting idly by and watching it happen.  A ( Read more... )

Eleven years ago, the forces of Islamofascism committed a monstrous crime against America and against all humanity.  They made prisoner the civilian crews and passengers of four airliners and then murdered all their prisoners, in the course of an attack which brought down a civilian target -- the World Trade Center -- and slighly damaged one ( Read more... )

Ten years ago today, it was the morning after an all-nighter. I was taking out the garbage outside my apartment in Little Egg Harbor, NJ. The skies were clear. Thunder rolled out of a cloudless sky. I looked around, but could see neither a stormcloud nor a supersonic airplane. And the sound was strangely protracted. I shrugged, went back ( Read more... )

Courtesy of the New York Times, "2 Afghans Die in Protest Over Koran Burning," by Alissa J. Rubin:

Two Afghans died in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan on Sunday when the police fired into a crowd protesting the planned burning of the Koran in Florida, a day after the burning had been called off.It's a win-win situation. Two violent morons ( Read more... )

Ran into some people who are happy that we're pulling out of Iraq and wish that we'd pull out of Afghanistan, right now! When I asked them "What about the Taliban and Al Qaeda, wouldn't they just keep on attacking us like they did before 9-11?", it threw them into a ferment. I'd asked a question that no one is supposed to ask ( Read more... )

maradydd, posting in http://maradydd.livejournal.com/515873.html, argues that it's somehow morally wrong that we are paying an average of around $10 million per Terrorist killed in Afghanistan but only less than $100 thousand (1/100 the amount) to compensate victims and relatives of victims of 9-11 ( Read more... )

One of the benefits of electing Barack Obama as Presidents was to be Obama's supposed diplomatic ability. We never actually saw this ability in action, but it was going to be wonderful, right?

Wrong.

From "Barack Obama fails to win Nato troops he wants for Afghanistan," Michael Evans and David Charter for the London Times (Read more... )

Some people have argued that we should have simply tried to deal with Al Qaeda through "police work" -- arresting terrorists when we found them, and not attacking Afghanistan. And certainly not Iraq. So I'm going to speculate how this would have worked.

( What If America Acted MATURELY? )

Courtesy of Amir Shah of the AP ( Read more... )

We are now in a situation where President Bush is going to end his second term, in just six months, with the main business of the Terrorist War unaccomplished. Yes, we have liberated Afghanistan and Iraq; but the major Terrorist Axis Powers of Iran and North Korea stand defiant, and alongside them the minor ones of Cuba, Syria, and the Sudan. ( Read more... )