Daily Archives: 21 Jul 06

More Evidence She is From Another Planet

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Michelle Malkin on Bush’s address to the NAACP: “What a squandered opportunity. Bush could have hit back hard at the race exploiters who shamelessly accused him of hating black people and suppressing black votes and causing Hurricane Katrina.
or the lingering existence of racism, the President could have used his platform to excoriate NAACP leftists for doing and saying nothing while liberal bigots relentlessly attack minority members of his administration and the Republican Party.”

Israeli Children Send Messages to the Lebanese…

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…on heavy artillery shells. (Yahoo! News Photos via miguel)

“To me, the conflict has long since come to resemble a war between lunatics, and one doesn’t pass moral judgments on the behavior of the insane, not even the criminally insane.” — Billmon [via unfutz]

“He who fights terrorists for any period of time is likely to become one himself.” — Israeli historian Martin van Creveld, The Transformation of War (1991)

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Gingrich Can’t Wait For World War III

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Neocons Are Nuts To Join Israel-Hezbollah Conflict. I’m sorry, I can’t make a reasoned, longwinded response to this latest neocon nonsense. Gingrich is so defensive about the idiocy of this assertion, that the Israel-Hezbollah conflict is WWIII and that the US should not wait to get on the right side of the conflict — specifically by taking out Iran, Syria and while we’re at it that bastion of the worldwide anti-American Islamist conspiracy North Korea as well — that each time he defends it in the media his blowhard list of bits of evidence from around the world inflates more and more (in parallel with the inflation of his jowls and his presidential aspirations). In a sense, though, he is right, the enemies of the West, or the US in particular, are mustering, emboldened in solidarity around the world. The only problem is that the neocons do not notice that it was the US’s arrogant unilateral bellicosity they largely whipped up which engendered it.

This isn’t World War III.

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“Yes, war is a terrible thing, but this one—contrary to the grandiose prognostications of Armageddon-obsessed pundits—will not bring about World War III or the end of the West or the defeat of extremist Islamism. It is now clear that the war in Lebanon is a limited, contained war, with modest goals and rational expectations. The war that has just started between Ethiopia and Somalia could be more vicious and could exact a greater toll of human lives, but it will probably get scant attention.” — Shmuel Rosner (Slate)