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I missed this. A report of Toby Harnden’s from 2004, relinked to by Instapundit, talking about yet another idiotic antiwar movie that’s bombing (I’d never even heard of it till last night) (I’d link to the original Spectator article but it just punts to the home page):

The other day, while taking a break [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Mark Steyn – THE SEDUCTIONS OF DECLINE

I don’t even know where to begin quoting this (RC2, who is probably better at hiding her straight razors than I, quoted it fairly extensively – and thoughtfully! – here, and as testament to the resilience of her state of mind, she manages to wade through a similarly-themed VDH [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Touchstone – Byzantium Yet Fallen The Critical Lessons for Christians in the Long Shadow of 1453, by Paul J. Cella

Round about five and a half centuries ago, the Roman Empire was at last extinguished. By then the Empire was, of course, Greek, not Roman; Christian, not pagan; and no longer strong, but pitifully weak. [...]

Categories: History

After a BBC video report on the misery – and upcoming elections! – in Darfur:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has told African leaders he is outraged by the use of rape as a weapon of war.

After another year of it, maybe he’ll say he’s “shocked”. After another year, “gravely disappointed”. A third [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Man. One of Kerry’s 2004 Election Lawyers says:

It should be obvious now, even to Obama’s most passionate supporters that shielding the free world requires more than mere words like “hope” and “change.” Bush’s detractors should be embarrassed having arrogantly thought they could do it better, and those Republicans who abandoned Bush when he [...]

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I finally had a half hour to watch the full Jon Stewart/John Yoo interview:

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Telegraph – Geraint Woolford, meet Geraint Woolford…<br/> From D-Day codewords to the only two men with a particular name meeting in hospital, life is full of staggering coincidences, says Nigel Farndale.

Did you see the story about the only two men in Britain called Geraint Woolford, who ended up in neighbouring beds in the same [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Here’s the president’s speech yesterday, taken apart piece by piece, analyzed, criticized, and put back together again:

Wheat & Weeds – Will The Norwegians Think Twice?

There, that was easy.

Categories: War and Peace

And they’re not money, power, and, uhh… oil, I guess.

NRO – Going Neocon<br/> Is Obama getting mugged by reality? By Abe Greenwald

1. No matter how technologically advanced and interconnected the world becomes, there will be bad actors, and their obstinacy will remain intact. Every regime cannot be made to acquiesce through appeals to common [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

OC Register – Mark Steyn: A leader of the free world not to be feared

The tireless Anne Bayefsky reported this week that the administration’s latest response to Iran’s nuclear provocations is to “start shifting our focus to the track of pressure.” It’s a good thing the diplomatic cable is a mostly metaphorical concept [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Spectator Blog – The Iraq inquiry we should be having, by Fraser Nelson

Do we still have the will to win in Afghanistan? If so, the question the Iraq inquiry should be asking is not “how did we get into this war” – we have had a number of separate inquiries into that [...]

Categories: War and Peace

WSJ – Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan by William McGurn

[T]he perverse message that decision [to dispatch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda leaders to federal criminal court for trial] will send to terrorists all over this dangerous world is this: If you kill civilians on American soil you will have greater protections [...]

Categories: War and Peace

An email to Jonah Goldberg:

Dear Jonah I am 34 years old, born in the U.S., raised as a (nominal) Muslim in Iran, and returned back to the U.S. in 1990 (thank Goodness). I converted to Catholicism in 2002, and became a reservist in the Navy (through the Direct Commission Officer [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Today we Americans celebrate Veteran’s Day by thanking the living (because of a quirk having to do with us getting to our Civil War before the Europeans got to WWI) while the rest of the world remembers the dead. We’ve done a lot of remembering the dead even in this country lately, so I thought [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Somebody out there is trying to make me cry.

<br/> The Poppy Factory in Richmond has made 41 million poppies this year for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal

The Times – Beside the Thames ‘the poppies blow’<br/> In a Richmond factory the ‘number one charitable emblem’ is made in its millions

Categories: War and Peace