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A Blog of Wrath
LINKSWar is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. --John Stuart Mill Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. --Gen. George S. Patton If we don't want the world's wealth to be controlled by people with money then the alternative is to have the world's wealth controlled by people with guns. Governments have plenty of guns. --P.J. O'Rourke Beer is evidence that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy. --Ben Franklin
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Thursday, June 19, 2003
Bubble gum and Klan tattoos... together at last. Chairman: "We need to come up with a good gimmick to help sell more of our bubble gum Anyone have a good ideas?" Intern: "Hey, why don't we give kids a tattoo of a Klansman?" Chairman: "Um, anyone else?" (long pause) Ok, Klansman it is." [Excerpted from Jewsweek.] This is incredible - a recreation of a Lithuanian shtetl is being built in rishon l'tsiyon - a theme park, with restauarants and evertything! In Jewish Law, paying someone to study tora is not allowed, but what about paying them to pray? And for AOL stock? Thursday, May 22, 2003
Apparently there's a new term for the intended victims of a terror attack - "bystanders." The latest in doublespeak from the masters of perversion in the media: "In 93 suicide attacks since the current violence erupted in September 2000, 357 bystanders have been killed." (AP) The AP used the same term in speaking about Morocco and Saudi Arabia, and The ever-on-the-dark-side NY Times has taken up this usage as well. Aren't those baby nukes, the just the cutest little nukes you ever did see? The American Senate voted to permit research on “mini-nukes”, but required it to get the approval of Congress before developing them. Such research had previously been banned but Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, argued that little nukes might now be useful here and there. - The Economist And whatever happened to neutron bombs? Tuesday, May 13, 2003
The Gweilo Diaries: How's that Again? A fine summary of freedom in VietNam: "The US State Department accused Vietnam of using its laws to suppress dissent on the internet. Vietnamese officials denied the charges, saying they were merely using the law to surpress dissent on the internet." Thursday, May 08, 2003
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today "London's Independent, meanwhile, reports from Gaza that "with the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, the flow of millions of dollars that the Iraqi leader sent to support the Palestinian intifada has abruptly ended." This gives the lie to the claim that Saddam's regime had nothing to do with terrorism--except to those who believe it isn't terrorism if the victims are only Jews." Spy Agencies' Optimism On Al Qaeda Is Growing (washingtonpost.com) Good news, but I wonder if it is too optimistic an assessment. StrategyPage: Military news about Afghanistan "May 7, 2003: The Taliban "offensive" is underway, with several hundred armed Taliban making attacks on foreign troops and government officials. There are also efforts to intimidate civilians, and close schools for girls and shops that sell music and videos. The attacks do not add up to a lot of activity, but there is enough of it for the general population to know the Taliban are still around. Taliban camps exist openly across the border in Pakistan, and Taliban recruit Pakistani Pushtuns for combat operations in Afghanistan. Pakistan has promised to crack down on the Taliban along the border, but this is difficult to do with so many hostile, and heavily armed, tribesmen protecting the Taliban operations." This seems important news to watch. In all the recent flap about whether there were enough troops sent to the battle in Iraq (it appears that there were), a fact that was mostly ignored by the media pundits and others is that there simply aren't enough troops in the military over all. While Clinton and Bush I did not cripple the military hardware-wise they did allow the military to shink hugely in manpower and this is a serious problem, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Accoding to Frank Gaffney, we simply do not have enough men under arms to project force credibly in as many places as we need to. We can't fight and win two major regional conflicts at once anymore (Rumsfeld's recent claim was that we can fight and win one while swiftly defeating the enemy in another, which seems to mean that we would have to fight a holding action until the other was finished). This deficiency, it seems, means that while we have a quarter of a million troops in Iraq, we can't be quite as effective in protecting the Karzai government in Afghanistan. We'll have to see how this works out. Monday, May 05, 2003
Thursday, May 01, 2003
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
ABCNEWS.com : Egyptian Sailor Dies in Brazil from Anthrax-Police "A crew member of an Egyptian merchant ship has died in northern Brazil, almost certainly from anthrax, after opening a suitcase suspected of containing the deadly bacteria, which he was taking to Canada. .... Brazil's Castro said Ibrahim had been given the suitcase in Cairo by an unidentified person and was due to deliver it to somebody in Canada. But he doubted Ibrahim knew what the bag contained, otherwise he most likely would not have opened it." via instapundnit, via den beste. Monday, April 28, 2003
A Legal Counterattack Two interesting stories on terrorism investigations and lawsuits. In the lawsuit filed by 9/11 families agianst the Saudi government, part of the defense seems to be that they funded terrorists as part of their official duties and so are immune from suit on that basis. They admit that they funded, via official channels, several of the vharities named by the US as supporter of international terrorism. In a related story the US has been trying to esxtradite some British terror suspects for years and it has been coaught up in red-tep despite the fact that tehir appeals were rejected byt he House of Lords (Britain's highest court). Other intersting stuff about the British imam Abu Hamza and his conenctions to terrorists in the US and elsewhere. Wednesday, April 16, 2003
A spoof on a largely hypocritical movement that rarely asks What Would Jesus Do when encountering a Jew? Tuesday, April 15, 2003
A Connectitutian-cum-New Yorker with some really interesting videos to share: "It took three weeks for the media to declare the Afghan war to a quagmire, but it took them only a week to make the same proclamation about the Iraq war. Although the media can't claim credit for accuracy, they at least deserve a pat on the back for increasing the speed at which they're wrong by a whopping 200%." - Evan Coyne Maloney. Sunday, April 13, 2003
This statement from Scott Ritter in a Time interview amply illustrates the moral vaccuousness of pacifism: Time: You've spoke about having seen the children's prisons in Iraq. Can you describe what you saw there? Ritter: The prison in question is at the General Security Services headquarters, which was inspected by my team in Jan. 1998. It appeared to be a prison for children — toddlers up to pre-adolescents — whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene. Actually I'm not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace. It is more important for him to prevent war than to expose the horrific practice of making political prisoners of children, so he refuses to discuss it. And people like him claim to have the moral highground. (Link from Andrew Sullivan) Thursday, March 27, 2003
Sunday, March 23, 2003
A Father’s Words on Going to War: Newsweek interview with Bush the Elder. Newsweek: What do you think is going on with France? Bush: [Pause] They're French. |