A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Bruce Thornton writing at Victor Davis Hanson writes Where the Illiberal Is in Liberalism “The whining of Democrats and ex-Clintonistas about the “docudrama” The Path to 9/11 has given us all another example of liberal mendacity and hypocrisy. Start with the total silence of the usual civil liberties suspects to say a word about this attempt at stifling someone’s First Amendment right to free speech. Where are the ACLU and its usual clichés about the “chilling effects” of such attempts? Where are all the blowhard academics who noisily defended the noxious Ward Churchill? Where are all the quotes from John Stuart Mill usually trotted out on these occasions?” (read more)
Allahpundit writes Marked for Death: Pope Slams Islam for Preaching Violence “Just a matter of time now. Nothing brings out the killer in jihadis like accusing them of being killers. Pope Benedict has hit out at Islam and its concept of holy war during a visit to his Bavarian homeland. The thinly veiled attack on extremist Islam’s justification for terrorism came during a theological lecture to staff and students at the University of Regensburg, where the former Joseph Ratzinger taught theology in the 1970s.” (read more)
John Werntz of Old War Dogs writes The New York Times...Not That Again? “…In today's story by Craig S. Smith, under the perfectly factual headline Gunmen in Syria Hit U.S. Embassy; 3 Attackers Die, their habitual editorial animus toward the present conduct of our leadership comes through 5 by 5. Here they go again, in the subhead: "The attack sent shudders through a region where anger toward the U.S. has surged in recent weeks." Note that fear of our retaliation raises no Middle Eastern goosepimples. No, indeed. They shudder because an attack on the hated enemy failed, a car-bomb deflagration was averted and 3 martyrs went to Paradise unadorned by victors' laurels.” (read more)
Cassandra writes AWOL: The Public's Right To Know Joe Wilson Lied “The half vast editorial staff never ceases to be amazed at the outright duplicity of the mainstream media. Perusing the pages of the WaPo this morning, we happened upon this handy-dandy Wilson Report, which the Post still links to in the sidebar of its latest Plame article. May we suggest it's time for an update? Correction? Perhaps we might slip a few facts under the Iron Curtain the media have erected around Saint Joseph of Niger?” (read more)
Sgt Hook writes Around Your Army “A good indicator of our Soldier’s morale is retention rates and it looks as if morale is high! The U.S. Army reached its retention goal for fiscal 2006 a month early, and the Army National Guard, the Army Reserve and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point are seeing recruitment gains, Army officials say. Applications are increasing at West Point, which trains Army officers for command positions, reversing a trend of declines that has played out there for several years amid mounting casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.” (read more)
Jeff Emanuel writing at RedState writes Oh, the peace and understanding of Muslim student groups. “The University of Georgia's student-run newspaper, the Red and Black (circulation 17,000+), dealt with Monday's fifth anniversary of 9/11 in a very unconventional way -- they ignored it. The middle of the paper's front page featured a giant picture of Steve Spurrier and a recap of Saturday’s football game against the South Carolina Gamecocks, with the juvenile headline "Cocks Blocked 18-0." Above the fold was an article about Muslim students “facing prejudice” – with the only supporting evidence of that being a story of mosque vandalism five years ago.” (read more)
Captain Ed writes Arabs Increasingly See Lebanon As A Loss “At the imposition of the UN Security Council cease-fire resolution, the West almost unanimously considered the war in Lebanon a disaster for Israel. Most analysts insisted that Israel's failure to destroy Hezbollah amounted to a humiliation and worried about the energizing effect Hassan Nasrallah's victory would have on radical Islam's popularity in the region. These analysts would be surprised to learn that Arabs increasingly view Hezbollah's war as a disaster as well -- but a disaster for Arabs:” (read more)
Uncle Jimbo writing at Blackfive writes Tora Bora- Did we miss bin Laden? “One of the recurring complaints against W and his team is the purported failure to capture bin Laden at Tora Bora by not using US ground troops. I believe this is a flawed understanding of the situation as I will detail here. The campaign in Afghanistan is one of the most incredible examples of the capabilities of Special Operations Forces as combat multipliers. Using only several hundred Americans and thousands of native Afghan troops we routed the Taliban and Al Qaeda from their sanctuary and destroyed them as a military force. Beginning in Oct. 2001 the Northern Alliance and it’s Spec Ops advisers were pushing the Taliban South and East using local knowledge and muscle and US airpower.” (read more)
Blue Star Chronicles writes The Traitor Lynne Stewart “Do you remember who Lynne Stewart is? If you do, you have a better memory than I do. She was charged with her crimes so long ago and so much has happened since then that it’s been easy for her to be relegated to the back page small print of the Global War on Terror. You see, she was involved in aiding and providing material support for the jihadists who planned the 1993 World Trade Center attack. I remembered the story, but didn’t remember the name until today. I hadn’t thought of her one way or the other in years. Until today. I read an article at Something …. and Half of Something and remembered.” (read more)
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