A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Victor Davis Hanson writes The Waiting Game “Do we really need further convincing of the threat we face? Hezbollah’s black-clad legions goose-step and stiff-arm salute in parade, apparently eager to convey both the zeal and militarism of their religious fascism. Meanwhile, consider Hezbollah’s “spiritual” head, Hassan Nasrallah — the current celebrity of an unhinged Western media that tried to reinvent the man’s own self-confessed defeat as a victory. Long before he hid in the Iranian embassy Nasrallah was on record boasting: ‘The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win because they love life and we love death.’” (read more)
Jay Tea writes It's Not a Matter of Time “As more and more opponents of the war in Iraq (or, rather, the Iraqi campaign of the War on Terror, or perhaps the War on Islamic Fascism) push harder and harder for firm timetables for US forces to draw down and ultimately withdraw, I find myself wondering just where the notion that such a thing would be desirable came from. And the longer I thought about it, the more I disliked it. There are many ways of measuring progress and success. One of them is simple passage of time. And that has to be one of the worst ways.” (read more)
GayPatriotWest of Gay Patriot writes Where’s the Smear? “...Just before leaving Los Angeles, I observed that the conservative blogosphere was all abuzz about recent revelations that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the ‘original leaker’ in the Plame kerfuffle. (I have found that Tom Maguire of JustOneMinute and Byron York of NationalReviewOnline have been offering the best coverage of this kerfuffle.) In his new book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, David Corn writes that ‘administration critics’ seized on this leak ‘as evidence of how far the White House was willing to go to smear an opponent.’” (read more)
Sachi of Big Lizards writes The Last Men Standing “Progress in Iraq is slow, and sometimes it's difficult to discern any at all. All we hear everyday is that another bomb exploded, killing a few dozen more Iraqis. So how do we tell whether the overall strategy is working? One way is to see how much of the country is ready to be handed over entirely to Iraqi security forces.” (read more)
Neptunus Lex writes Something in The Air “Something potentially ugly. Back when the storm clouds gathered in late 2002 and early 2003, heads attached to graying pony tails, heads filled with grandiose memories from 1970’s street demonstrations remembered the pride of their youth and once again took to the protest ramparts, augmented this time by the organizational power of committed paleo-reds from International ANSWER, side-by-side with bored housewives who believed in a woolly-headed way that “war is wrong, and we really oughtn’t have any” and an assortment of “activist” college students looking for a little whiff of the tear gas perhaps to lend them an aura of jaded euro-gravitas.” (read more)
Contributor Crank at Redstate writes Lebanon: Victory Without (More) War? “Charles Krauthammer makes one of the few persuasive optimistic cases I've seen for the argument that Hezbollah really did lose the war with Israel, and won't fight again. Most of the optimistic assessments by serious people have been grim ones, based on the idea that the peace won't hold and the war will restart on terms more favorable to Israel than where we were when the shooting stops. Krauthammer thinks otherwise:” (read more)
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