From Big O's speech: [W]e have made progress on some important objectives. … In Afghanistan, we and our allies prevented the Taliban from stopping a presidential election and -- although it was marred by fraud -- that election produced a government that is...
Will Obama Out-BS Bush?
Obama’s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals’ hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world. The fact that Obama is following in Bush’s footsteps - talking to an audience of captive...
WHICH ‘safe haven,’ Mr. Obama?
If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children (as "collateral damage") in Afghanistan. And then he has to sell...
I Have the Answer
NPR (All Things Considered) is devoting an entire hour of programming today to the war in Afghanistan. The show was prefaced with a comment something like "We don't have all the answers." Well, I have the answer: Get out! Get out now before one more Afghan dies,...
German DM Mentions the War… in Afghanistan
An outrageous thing has happened today in Germany: the Defense Minister has used the word "war" to describe the, uh, war in Afghanistan. As Justin Raimondo might say: Germans are shocked -- shocked! You see, these people burdened by national collective memories of...
How idiots win hearts and minds – – –
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have...
Hiroshima AND Nagasaki: The Inside Story
At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later, a second...
Some Reward
John Bolton's mustache is twitching: The Obama administration is rewarding North Korea for its bad behavior by sending ex-president Bill Clinton to Pyongyang to win the release of two US journalists, the former US ambassador to the UN said Tuesday. Let me get this...
‘Which country is more open and transparent?’
Via John McGlynn comes this exchange at the State Department press briefing on Monday: MR. KELLY: Good afternoon. Let me start off by just kind of updating you where we are today in terms of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, which you all know started...
We’ve Always Been at War With… Line, Please
Poor John Cornyn. It's tough to keep track of all the people we may have to murder indiscriminately. A key US Senator who has extensively supported India, including the passage of the nuclear deal, stunned his Indian and Indian-American supporters this weekend when he...
