Obama’s messing up. He won’t take a shot at Hillary. It’s early yet, but I smell the timidity.
Oh, there goes Hillary again about “offensive” action against Iran. She’s leaving the door open for retaliation.
The “rush” to war. At least half a dozen times.
Hillary wants sanctions against Iran? What, we’ve been at that for almost thirty years! All it’s done is contain the nutbags —until now.
And “vigorous diplomacy” is just empty rhetoric.
Of course Iran is a terror master. At least Hillary isn’t hiding from that. But Democrats who are against the war can’t possibly be in favor of her candidacy.
Hillary wants to “prevent a rush to war” with Iran, does she?
Well, that’s not the same as saying she wants to prevent war with Iran altogether.
Clintonian.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever read him do it before, but John Hinderaker goes PG on the filthy hippies:
It is the luxury of knowing they are bullshitting that allows American liberals to claim that their freedoms are going up in smoke and that dissent is being suppressed, when in fact, “dissent” is socially mandated in polite society from Manhattan to Marin County.
I would add this parallel: any survey of Europeans you look at will say that they think the United States is the biggest danger to world peace, worse than North Korea or the Islamofascists. But they don’t mean it. If they did, they would be clamoring for their own countries to re-arm. But the very people who claim to believe that the U.S. is bent on world domination are the same ones who don’t want their own governments to spend a dollar on defense. They are entirely content to let us keep the peace. Which means that what they tell pollsters about threats to world peace, like what liberals say about threats to their civil liberties, is, to put it politely, disingenuous.
Ha, ha. Bullshitting. But it’s true: if these degenerates really did believe that we’re living through the Fourth Reich, the vast majority of them wouldn’t have the nerve to speak as they now do. I know that for a stone fact.
Another reason I don’t like soccer is its lack of episodicity. Just look at American football with all of the planning and executing that simply doesn’t exist in a sport where one’s progress cannot really be built upon and where what you gain is unratcheted and fenceless. In American football, physical brutality gets you territory —but so does extreme grace and athleticism. Does soccer? Sorta, but they’re always giving it up. They seem to be constantly losing the ball and squandering their progress and having nothing to show for their work. But are all scores equal? Of course not. Some points are scored cheaply. And not all fouls are the same. American football is more complex and compelling. It is more heroic.
Glenn Reynolds links to a blog entry by a reporter named Bobby Calvan who’s currently in Iraq writing for the McClatchy Newspaper people. In his blog post, Calvan describes a recent experience he had at a checkpoint trying to get back into the Green Zone in Baghdad —but he comes off so incredibly arrogant that he is either the most gifted parodist I’ve read all year or the dumbest libtard stumpfuck to ever write from a war zone:
The American soldier assigned by the U.S. military to oversee this particular checkpoint came over to investigate the problem.
He asked if I had a driver’s license on me. I told him I didn’t have one. He looked incredulous. Why would I need a driver’s license in Baghdad; I wouldn’t be driving, I told him.
He took offense at my response.
Then he looked at the second ID of my companion. It was a badge issued by our newspaper. He said it wouldn’t do. Besides, he asked, what is Knight Ridder?
“I never heard of it,” he said. He probably would have never heard of McClatchy, either. (We use Knight Ridder because it already had a bureau in Baghdad before the chain was bought by the McClatchy Co.)
The funniest part, though, is the comment thread. This poor bastard just gets eviscerated. I was actually in tears I was laughing so hard as the hyperbole and righteous anger just piled up.
UPDATE: Oh, okay. Now Calvan’s cut the end of his post off and is waving the white flag. Too late, hippie: we done got you in the cache. Ha, ha! Go read the comments, anyway. They are a work of art. Like the dude from the Hell’s Angels in Gimme Shelter explaining why he and his boys had to beat the shit out of the people for messing with their bikes at Altamont.
Am I losing my damned mind over here or am I the only person who can hear this weird, looping noise on all of Fox’s baseball broadcasts? Seriously. From beginning to end, there’s been this low tone in the back channel of their audio that is a mix of London police car siren and the chattering probes that Darth Vader sent to Hoth.
It’s really noticeable tonight.
Oh, and nice use of the Pixies’ “Here Comes Your Man” at the ad break.
I dunno. What do you think? You think the new audio from Osama is legit? It’s such a self-pitying performance that I can’t see how it would be inspirational to any of the wretched religious psychopaths still infesting Iraq. So that militates against it actually being his voice. But maybe Osama doesn’t realize how pathetic those recordings and alleged video make him sound. Maybe he doesn’t have any choice now but to sound so whipped.
If the next twelve months bring more and better news of a successful Iraq, as I expect it will, it will be an absolute validation of George W. Bush’s policies there and an equally damning dismissal of the anti-war liberal Left as little more than incompetent sympathizers to Islamofascism. And that will be just in time for the Election of 2008.
What’s the Dhimmicratic Party’s rhetoric going to sound like then? Like Osama’s? It wouldn’t surprise me; they both have a lot to gain by seeing America fail in Iraq.
The Asia Times Online is reporting that
An all-out battle for control of Pakistan’s restive North and South Waziristan is about to commence between the Pakistani military and the Taliban and al-Qaeda adherents who have made these tribal areas their own.
According to a top Pakistani security official who spoke to Asia Times Online on condition of anonymity, the goal this time is to pacify the Waziristans once and for all. All previous military operations - usually spurred by intelligence provided by the Western coalition - have had limited objectives, aimed at specific bases or sanctuaries or blocking the cross-border movement of guerrillas. Now the military is going for broke to break the back of the Taliban and a-Qaeda in Pakistan and reclaim the entire area.
I don’t know if this represents a fantastic opportunity to make a final breakthrough against the Taliban types in Afghanistan or if it means disaster.
A qualified estimate by intelligence officials is that Pakistani military pacification of the Waziristans would slash the capability of the Afghan resistance by 85% as well as deliver a serious setback to the Iraqi resistance.
The militants have little option but to stand and fight, rather than slip across the border or melt into the local population. Aside from the sanctuary and succor afforded them in the Waziristans, most of the fighters there are either Waziris, or from other parts of Pakistan, or foreigners. They would be unable to support themselves in Afghanistan, especially as most of the non-Waziris do not speak Pashtu - a fact that also prevents them from disappearing into the Waziristan populace.
Let’s hope for some sound immigration policy for the sake of our fighting men and women in Afghanistan. Stop the floor-kissers at the border and give that region a chance for peace.
Isn’t there some benefit to Rudy Giuliani with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s divorce today? I know that sounds odd, but doesn’t it somehow ameliorate Giuliani’s own political vulnerabilities in that regard? If the leader of France —a country thats moral attitudes are supposed by many to be superior to ours— can politically withstand a divorce while in office, it has to be of some help to America’s Mayor. It’s got to be some sort of recalibration.
In other news, the governor of my state has apparently reassured the Christian Right that his support of Giuliani is the best way he knows to get Roe v. Wade overturned:
Facing strident criticism from his key supporters for his endorsement of GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, Gov. Rick Perry says religious conservatives need to keep their eye on their Number One goal - overturning Roe vs. Wade.
Perry says Giuliani has promised to appoint strict constructionist judges who would favor overturning the landmark decision legalizing abortion.
Oh, for Christ’s sake! Governor? Please stop talking.
