Entries Tagged as 'War and Peace'
Ghost Stories
Hmm, what to link to today…
Corner – Wikileaks vs. Democracy
It will take time to assess the real harm caused by this dump of some 92,000 classified documents into the public domain by Wikileaks. But as I argue this morning, the Obama administration’s warning that there would be damage seems highly credible. It’s hard [...]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXLIII
This is well done:
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More WWII Parallels!
ABC’s Jake Tapper: President Obama, White House: Al Qaeda Is Racist
“Additionally, U.S. intelligence has indicated that al Qaeda leadership specifically targets and recruits black Africans to become suicide bombers because they believe that poor economic and social conditions make them more susceptible to recruitment than Arabs,” the official said. “Al Qaeda recruits have [...]
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The Stuff You Find in Autoblog…
Autoblog – Report: Former Audi employee convicted Nazi war criminal
Yeesh.
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Checking In On How My War Is Doing
Hey it’s Saturday morning! Time to ruin your mood! Same bat time, same bat columnist…
Macleans – Mark Steyn: Where ‘nice’ Obama has got us Why would Ahmadinejad take him seriously when even Karzai flips him the finger?
The toppling of the Taliban was an operation conducted with extraordinary improvised ingenuity and a very light U.S. [...]
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Northern Ireland Again
Yikes:
The Sunday Times – Return to Bloody Sunday The authors investigated the shootings for The Sunday Times. They reveal how their findings became pivotal to the inquiry. Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson
On Tuesday at 8am, a small band of lawyers, among them Britain’s best and brightest, will enter the Guildhall in Londonderry under what [...]
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In Which They Went To The Parade
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIV
I Used to Have a Tape With This Song Sung by Disney Characters
And I don’t think I’ve heard this song since I heard Mickey Mouse MC-ing it on a drive to Canada when I was about 8 years old.
The Armed Forces Medley, which I’m just getting to now from Memorial Day:
I wonder if they still make that tape.
Curtsy: RC2’s Google Reader.
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Flotsam Flotilla
Charles Krauthammer with some timely reminders:
The fundamental deception here is the use of the word “humanitarian.” . . . Humanitarians don’t wield iron clubs, and [they] would have killed the Israelis had the Israelis not drawn their pistols in self-defense. But there‘s a larger issue here. What exactly is [...]
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Happy Memorial Day
I keep running into things, these past few weeks, which make me feel guilty to be an American. There was that book about Zimbabwe, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. And, I mean, imagine living in a country like that, where everything disintegrates around you into corruption and violence and death, everywhere. And last night [...]
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Anzac Day (+2)
Don’t Bring a Nuke to a Machete Fight
NRO – Mark Steyn: Nonproliferation? How Quaint! The mound of corpses being piled up around the world today is not from high-tech nuclear states but from low-tech psycho states.
You could just about enforce nonproliferation back in the Cold War, when the only official nuclear powers were the Big Five at the U.N. Security Council [...]
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Nukes! And Security! Together!
This is so funny on so many levels I can’t even begin to parse them all: France will not give up nukes
WASHINGTON – France will not give up nuclear weapons because doing so would “jeopardise” its security, President Nicolas Sarkozy said this morning as global leaders gathered for a summit on nuclear security. [...]
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Fighting Back Prevents Injury
Via The Corner:
AP – Dutch sidestep EU red tape to rescue German ship
Gaining fast on the pirates who had seized a German freighter, Dutch naval captain Col. Hans Lodder had no time to waste on bureaucracy. Sidestepping the command of the European Union’s anti-piracy task force, he went instead to his own government [...]
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