Archive for the 'war' Category
Up Is Down
National Review, 8/2/07:
So President Obama would invade Pakistan? Who would have thought? “It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005,” Obama said at a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value [...]
Priceless
President Bush has a second career awaiting him as a comedian:
Condemning as unacceptable what he called Russia’s “bullying and intimidation,” President Bush on Friday said Russia must withdraw its troops from all of Georgian territory and said the United States would stand with Georgia in the conflict.
“Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected,” [...]
The New York Times Stamps Its Impotent Little Foot
Here’s a hoot of an editorial in the Times Russia Takes Gori:
Europe and the United States must make clear to Mr. Medvedev — and the real power player, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — that more aggression and lies will not be tolerated. They must make clear that Russia will pay a price, in diplomatic standing [...]
Department of No DOY.
Russia’s blitz into the former Soviet republic of Georgia has exposed starkly the limits of US military power and geopolitical influence in the era following the invasion of Iraq.
Georgia is one of the closest US allies in Eastern Europe. President Mikheil Saakashvili has visited the White House three times in the last four years. Yet [...]
Chuckle
Russian armored vehicles rolled 25 miles into western Georgia and took up positions at a military base here early Monday after issuing an ultimatum to Georgia to disarm its troops, along the boundary with the separatist territory of Abkhazia.
The Russian military advances represented the first time Russian forces invaded Georgia proper in the four-day-old conflict, [...]
I Think the Shit is About to Hit the Fan
Although it hasn’t been as prominent in the news as truly important events like the Olympics and John Edwards’ mistress, but some really nutso aggression is going down between Georgia and Russia over the area of South Ossatia (no I hadn’t heard of it either before this weekend).
I’m honestly not sure who started [...]
After 7 Years…
…you’d think they’d have their story straight (h/t to atrios.
But prosecutor Timothy Stone, in an attempt to draw a link between Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial, told the six-member jury of U.S. military officers who will decide Hamdan’s guilt or innocence that Hamdan had inside knowledge of [...]
An Open Letter to Michael Gerson, Child-Killer
Dear Mr. Gerson:
I initally sent this letter to the address you make available at the Washington Post, michaelgerson@cfr.org, but since your secretary answered in your stead, I felt it would better to publish it openly. However, I do understand your reluctance to reply: I wouldn’t want to respond to anything that accurately pointed out [...]
National “Suck on This” Day
Via Atrios, today we celebrate National “Suck on This” Day, memorializing when foreign policy super-genius Tom Friedman opined… well just watch:
I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie.
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We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take [...]
More of This Please
Obama bodyslams McCain and Bush.
It’s a beautiful thing to watch, whether you support Obama for President or not.
He ties the two together, than hangs an anvil on their necks, and then shoves them off the plank.
My mom, who voted for Clinton, called me up while Obama was live on TV. “OK,” she said. “I’m votiong [...]
