“Take the rocket from Operation Pillar of Defense that hit a home in Rishon Lezion. That rocket destroyed one floor. This warhead would have destroyed the entire building.” —Israel Defense Forces.
While Iran pretends to be standing down its nuclear weapons development, its material support for terrorism continues without pretense.
Read. It. All. Here.
Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Obsessions, The War
It might seem a bit pompous of Kansas Republican Mike Pompeo to ask SXSW to cancel its much-advertised, long-distance interview Monday with Vlad Putin’s favorite foreign guest.
But Pompeo, the junior member of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a former Army captain and a West Point graduate, has some arguable reasons:
“The panel, ‘A Virtual Conversation with Edward Snowden,’ will focus on the impact of the NSA spying revelations and how technology can be used to protect privacy.
“Snowden’s ‘only apparent qualification,’ Pompeo wrote, ‘is his willingness to steal from his own government and then flee to that beacon of First Amendment freedoms, the Russia of Vladimir Putin.'”
Indeed, it is the only reason for the “conversation,” in which Snowden—having helped put SXSW back on a media stage that might be tiring of it—allegedly will answer questions from the Austin audience, even the unadoring kind. Instead of just making speeches.
Whether there will be any unadoring “questions” from the primarily leftist audience remains to be seen. Pompeo offers two the leftists might not think of: “including why [Snowden] chose to leak ‘purely military secrets’ with no bearing on domestic surveillance, and…the extent of his relationship with the Russian government, ‘financial or otherwise.’”
Via Instapundit,
UPDATE: Apparently neither of Pompeo’s questions were asked. No surprise there. No one even asked why Snowden fled to Russia, no champion of privacy or freedom whatsoever.
Bush Jr.’s assault on the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 made perfect sense after their sanctuaried client Al Queda’s murderous work in Lower Manhattan a few months before.
Likewise our 2003 invasion of Iraq where dictator Saddam Hussein had the means, the motive and the opportunity to aid Al Q as well, though our leftist federal bureaucrats never could seem to find the proof of it.
More than a decade of largely-feckless political and military operations later, Bush’s leftist successor cut and ran from Iraq and is hobbling what’s left of the American military in Afghanistan.
As pathetic as it all is, as Darkwater shows, this history actually rhymes—with Rudyard Kipling’s 1917 poem Mesopotamia. Kipling even called our aftermath as the leftist federal bureaucrats, their president and lifelong pols like Hillary Clinton continue their lucrative careers:
“Our dead shall not return to us while Day and Night divide –
Never while the bars of sunset hold.
But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died,
Shall they thrust for high employments as of old?”
You betcha. Their leftist media pals who likewise don’t believe in military service will continue to cover for them and the American dead of Iraq and Afghanistan will be forgotten by all but their families. Some of the crippled ones can even look forward to being assaulted on American streets.
I hope the volunteers of 2001 and 2003 and subsequently will impart the lesson they learned to a new generation of would-be warriors: our government cannot be trusted and joining the micro-managed American military—for any reason other than to repel a direct attack on the homeland—is only slow-motion suicide.
Via Darkwater at Phase Line Birnam Wood.
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Obamalot, The Culture, The War, Troops
Tagged history rhymes, Phase Line Birnam Wood, Rudyard Kipling
How appropriate. Traitor John, as some of us Vietnam veterans with long memories still refer to the lying, backstabbing sumbitch Kerry, is getting mocked on YouTube (in Hebrew with English subtitles) by Israelis with a delicious sense of humor.
Which is more than Lurch has. Wormtongue’s other minions (Susan Rice among them) and the state department’s lifetime bureaucrats in American’s richest city (yes, that would be Washington, D.C., where no matter what happens to the economy, everybody still gets pay, bonuses and raises) are demanding that Bibi reign in his citizens. Pathetic.
Imagine if Bibi tried to get Wormtongue to stomp on some American comedians for mocking him. Can’t imagine it? Me neither. Only our witless Democrat overlords are that hypocritical. But Lurch has a very thin skin. Who knows? He may have threatened to resign otherwise.
UPDATE: I was hoping for something like this back a year ago when Clown Kerry became secstate. I am more than pleased. Great comeuppance!
Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Obamalot, The War
Tagged Israeli mockery, Lurch, Susan Rice
You could blame B. Hussein and the Democrats for withdrawing from Iraq. You could blame Bush-the-Younger and the neocons for sending American troops there in the first place.
You certainly could blame the Iraqis for handing the town back to the Jihadis. But maybe they really like living in the 7th century CE.
The Marines who fought there, of course, are anguished. As undoubtedly are the Army soldiers who fought there, too, although to much less publicity. As were a lot of combat veterans of Vietnam when the feckless pols withdrew from there, leaving the American dead to have died for nothing.
Well, not for nothing. They died for the Marines, for the Army, for their comrades-in-arms. That might not be enough for their survivors. But, in the end, it’s about all there ever is in war.
Posted in Blogosphere, Iraq, Obituaries, The War, Troops, Viet Nam, War Without End
Tagged Althouse, losing Fallujah
Ariel (Arik) Sharon was “…a father of Israel. A man who minced neither his words nor his actions. He is loved, he is hated, he is revered. Death will not change the range of emotions and opinions held on this son of Israel. He will be remembered as a man who saved Israel when she needed him most, more than once.”
Via Harry’s Place and Simply Jews
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Obituaries, The War, Troops, War Without End
Tagged Ariel Sharon, Arik RIP, Harry's Place, Israel, Simple Jews
The pensions of civilian federal retirees were not affected by the cuts written into law by Republican Paul Ryan and backed by the Democrats. Meanwhile, last year, in the 12th full year of fighting, American troop deaths in Afghanistan finally reached 2,301.
Via Darkwater.
UPDATE: Apparently the law was amended to exempt the pensions of disabled retirees and their spouses from the cuts, while retaining the cuts for all other military retirees. Civilian federal retiree pensions still were not affected.
Posted in Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Obamalot, The War, Troops
Tagged congress cuts disabled veteran retirement, Phase Line Birnam Wood
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