Eloi Nation.

Love her or hate her, Anne Coulter’s on the money with this one.  What all perpetrators of terrorism against the United States in the last 10 years have in common is NOT that they use weapons but that they are Muslim. To pretend that’s not relevant is horrifying on an Eloi scale. It’s . . [...]

Blame Game.

Whatever you thought of President George W. Bush, he never, not once, ever blamed Bill Clinton for the 8 years of foreign policy ineptitude that led inevitably to 9/11–though he quite justifiably could have done so. The 1990′s were filled with terrorist acts and not all were either directed against the US or committed by [...]

More on the Air Force One fiasco.

From The Virginian: Who wanted new pictures of Air Force One against the New York skyline? Why was there a demand for secrecy? And, of course, the big question: who thought that low flying jumbo jets over Manhattan would pass un-noticed by the people who watched their friends die just eight years ago? [ . [...]

Doing the job America won’t?

A German-Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia on Saturday, in which the vessel’s private Israeli security force exchanged fire with the bandits and drove them off, the ship’s commander said yesterday. Cmdr. Ciro Pinto told Italian state radio that six men in [...]

Moderate Taliban?

The elusive “moderate Taliban”…where might they be? THE HAGUE (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at a U.N. conference on Afghanistan that Taliban members in Afghanistan who abandoned extremism must be granted an “honorable form of reconciliation.” “We must also support efforts by the government of Afghanistan to separate the [...]

Devils.

A 16 year old boy was murdered in Israel today by Muslim terrorist. With an axe. Sixteen-year-old Shlomo Nativ was killed and a seven-year-old boy was moderately injured in an attack carried out by a terrorist carrying an axe in the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin Thursday noon. According to the police, the terrorist [...]

Dying by degrees.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – Three suicide bombers disguised in army uniforms stormed a government office in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday after a fourth detonated a car bomb, officials said. At least 10 people—including the four assailants—died. The coordinated assault underscored a new tactic by Afghan militants to launch multidirectional attacks against government offices. It mirrored [...]

Obama’s drone.

ISLAMABAD, April 1 (Reuters) – A pilotless U.S. drone aircraft fired a missile in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 12 people, a security official and residents said. The strike was the first drone attack in the Orakzai ethnic Pashtun tribal region, which is near but not on the Afghan border, southwest of the city of [...]

Actionable intelligence?

The Pakistani Taliban recently attacked a police station and murdered 9 people. Afterward, their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, had this to say: “Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world,” Mehsud told The Associated Press by phone. He provided no details. via The Associated Press: Pakistani Taliban claim police [...]

Willful ignorance.

Hamas is a pretty disgusting organization. Backed by Iran, their sole purpose is to leverage innocent Palestinians (such as they may be) into concessions by the Israeli government by any means necessary. This is pretty obvious stuff to anyone paying even the most disinterested attention to matters there. Except of course to the AP: International [...]

Inescapable conclusion.

Did you know that Hamas is negotiating a ceasefire with Israel? There has been speculation that a cease-fire deal is close. However, Hamas official said Saturday that new problems have come up. Hamas wants an 18-month cease-fire. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum says Israel created new obstacles by seeking an open-ended cease-fire. Yes, you read that [...]

End of days.

There are no words. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war [...]

Death cult.

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame. Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to recruiting the women and orchestrating dozens of attacks. via ‘Mum’ had [...]

Too comfortable. Too numb.

In 2002, seven years ago this past Sunday, a Jewish American journalist named Daniel Pearl was abducted in Pakistan, held captive, and beheaded. Here’s an op-ed in today’s WSJ written by his father. Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar [...]

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

What’s the President smoking? WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday he worried that detainees freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, might resume attacks on the United States. But he told NBC News that closure of the prison was a matter of upholding U.S. values and [...]

Out of his league.

This from Reuters today: [Former Senator George] Mitchell, who helped to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict, was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week to lead U.S. efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. Mitchell’s tour will also take him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, France and Britain. He said he [...]

Afghan strategy.

Check this out: Strategic Divergence: The War Against the Taliban and the War Against Al Qaeda | Stratfor. It’s a nice piece describing our objectives and likelihood for success in Afghanistan. As President Obama turns our focus there from Iraq in the coming months, what should we expect? What does the President expect? How will [...]

September 20, 2001.

President George W. Bush said this to the American people during his State of the Union address on 9/20/01: It is my hope that in the months and years ahead life will return almost to normal. We’ll go back to our lives and routines and that is good. Even grief recedes with time and grace. [...]

An endless stream of cigarettes and magazines…

Guess who’s going home to plot the murder of our children? CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – A Saudi man who was released from Guantanamo after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp has joined al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen and is now the terror group’s No. 2 in the country, according to a purported Internet statement [...]

And we wonder why they hate us.

Amsterdam’s red light district is reportedly to receive a bronze statue dedicated to prostitutes around the world. According to the Dutch agency ANP, sculptress Els Rijerse made the statue at the request of a former prostitute Mariska Majoor, who a decade ago founded a centre on prostitution in the Dutch capital. Majoor was quoted as [...]

Taking his eye off the ball?

First he’s closing Guantanamo and now he’s shutting down the “black sites”? President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush admistration’s architecture for the war on terror, according to four individuals familiar with [...]

Cease fire?

How to fix this? Violence marred the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as Hamas gunmen fired mortar shells into Israel and opened fire on IDF troops who remained inside the Palestinian territory. In the afternoon, IAF aircraft bombed a mortar launcher in the Gaza Strip that had been used hours earlier to fire [...]

Eyeless in Gaza.

And we get all bent out of shape when our government listens in on our phone calls to terrorists. Imagine the outrage on the left if our government did this: Hamas militiamen have rounded up hundreds of Fatah activists on suspicion of “collaboration” with Israel during Operation Cast Lead, Fatah members in the Gaza Strip [...]

Busted.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary — in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts. The Roman Catholic Church condemned Ricardo Oyarzun’s plans for a show featuring the models, and a conservative group tried unsuccessfully to block it in court. Oyarzun said [...]

January 10?

Ok, this is more than a little creepy. On January 10, the war between Israel and Hamas became a global conflict. No longer confined to the Gaza Strip, the fighting spread to cities around the world: what were billed as “anti-war” demonstrations from Los Angeles to Copenhagen and beyond were in fact overtly pro-Hamas demonstrations, [...]