A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
The Hatemongers Quarterly posting at Wizbang writes The Curious “Anti-Racism” of the Radical Left “Pound for pound, the ‘political newsletter’ Counterpunch is surely one of the zanier ‘websites’ on Al Gore’s World-Wide Web. Run by Stalinoid conspiracy theorist Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch presents a treasure trove of unhinged far-left rants, many of which take aim at the nefarious ‘Zionist lobby.’ This radical ‘website’s’ fixation with anti-Israel apologetics demonstrates the curious ‘anti-racism’ of the self-proclaimed progressive left. As everyone with a pulse knows, leftists constantly bleat about how gosh darn opposed to racism they are: They’re so dedicated to rooting out prejudice that they even invent examples of it merely to make formal displays of their virtue.” (read more)
Dafydd writes VegasBlogging 1: "Milestones," Or Media Millstones? “This AP story is one of the most maddening, infurating examples of elite-media manipulation I've seen in months. We start with the bizarre, defamatory, and demented headline: War Price on U.S. Lives Equal to 9/11. In the first place... huh? What's the point of this article? I was about to note that we lost fewer than 2,500 at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941; while a quick glance at the right sidebar to this very blog tells you that during the war for which that attack was the starting gun, 400,000 brave American sailors, Marines, soldiers, and airmen (then still part of the Army) were killed. There is no relation, cause-effect, or connection between the number of people who died in a precipitating incident and the number killed in the war it precipitates. For heaven's sake, wasn't the War to End All Wars "started" by the death of a single arch-duck?” (read more)
Omar of Iraq the Model writes War on peace… “Yesterday around noon, the 'Virgin Mary Old Eastern Church' in Baghdad was attacked with a series of bombings that involved the use of at least three explosive devices. The sequence in which the bombs were set off indicates the terrorists were trying to inflict as many casualties as possible among the worshippers who were preparing to leave the church after the Sunday ceremony. What really makes me sad and angry is that churches are the most peaceful places in the country. Churches did not turn into bomb factories or hideouts for criminals. They remained beacons for peace and love unlike our mosques and Husseiniyat that drifted far away from their original purpose and sadly became sources of fear and death and changed to become homes to torturers and kidnappers.” (read more)
Michelle Malkin writes About that National Intelligence Estimate “The NYTimes and WaPo went big yesterday with news of a leaked classified National Intelligence Estimate report, which reportedly claims that the Iraq war is exacerbating Islamic terrorism. WaPo:
‘The war in Iraq has become a primary recruitment vehicle for violent Islamic extremists, motivating a new generation of potential terrorists around the world whose numbers may be increasing faster than the United States and its allies can reduce the threat, U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded.’” (read more)
Greyhawk writes A Brief History of a Long War (Iraq, 1990-2003) / 1998 “1998: The tensions continue. Meanwhile, President Clinton is confronted with a growing domestic scandal that will ultimately become politically interwoven with military actions against Iraq. A more complete timeline of those events can be found here. Excerpts considered essential to this account will be included below. January 13, 1998: Iraq blocks an inspection by an American dominated team. It accuses the leader of the team, Scott Ritter, of spying for the US. UNSCOM timeline: The Executive Chairman reports to the Council that during the first day of an inspection, Iraq announced that it was withdrawing its cooperation with the inspection team on the pretext that the team had too many individuals of US or UK nationality (S/1998/27 of 13 January 1998).” (read more)
Neptunus Lex writes The Old Game “China, Russia and France: Can you name three things these countries have in common? Why yes. Yes they are permanent members of the US Security Council, and as such they do have veto authority over any sanctions that might be contempleted by that body against oh, Iran say, for that country’s violation of its agreements under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Not to mention the sanctions strongly suggested by UNSC in Resolution 1696, whose 31 August 2006 deadline to suspend nuclear enrichment Iran has defied.” (read more)
John Hawkins writes How Do Many Liberals Really Feel About Christians? “Over at the wildly popular liberal blog, The Smirking Chimp, there are a couple of posts, both on the front page, that merit a closer look. First, there's a column from Gary Vance called "How Can Any Christian Support the GOP?" Here's a quote from that column: ‘Many Democratic candidates have become more open about their religious faith during this election cycle in an attempt to appeal to the Christian values driven voting bloc. Critics on the Right ridicule this effort as being nothing more than shallow and insincere religious grandstanding.’ (read more)
Master Gunner of Tanker Brothers writes This Is Why There Is Such A Large Anti-War Movement In The United States... “I'll be the first one to admit: I read Time Magazine. Call it masochistic, call it morbid curiosity, whatever. The bottom line is this: I read it. And I'm not happy when I do[.] Why is that that people seek out Soldiers who have problems when they return home from War? The overwhelming number of Soldiers and Marines come back and are chompin' at the bit to go back. They don't sleep with guns under their beds, they don't hang themselves with garden hoses, they don't do anything crazy. They are your friends and neighbors. They come back, and they go about their normal lives. If they are active duty Soldiers, they go back to training. They spend time wth their families, and they train to go back and finish the job.” (read more)
Pam of Iraq War Today writes Most Moronic Blog Comment Ever “Some of the comments on this blog have been...well...less than impressive. And some of the classics have come from the "United We Stand" post above. Take this one, for instance: ‘You all are losers.’ Constructive criticism? I think not. This one is a peach, too: ‘Wow, there's a mistake here. I think it should read "United We Stand... in hoping that your killers are returned safely and not charged, and in support of your efforts in the War OF Terror."Cowards, you are one and all. All you want is the destruction of the Middle East and more Arab blood on your hands. I hope the I.D.F and the Coalition lose, because, if anything, that will help Arabs unite and seek a better solution to this whole mess than what the terrorists of America and Israel are giving the Middle East.’” (read more)
Andi of SpouseBUZZ writes A Roller Coaster Ride “All marriages have their ups and downs, but I'd venture to say that military marriages endure the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows. Take for instance the story of Lance Cpl. Shane E. Kielion and his young wife, April. The couple's story was featured in a FOXNews special titled, ‘Breaking Point: Company of Heroes.’ I saw the special months ago, and I haven't been able to get April Kielion out of my mind since. While Shane was busy cleaning out the rat's nest in Fallujah, April was at home, pregnant with their first child. On November 15, 2004, Shane Kielion was shot by a sniper. Thirty minutes later, April gave birth to Shane Kielion Jr, completely unaware that her husband had been shot.” (read more)
Wretcherd of The Belmont Club writes The old and the new “One of the more curious gaps in popular history is the lack of a first rate account of the Spanish Reconquista, the name given to the 800 year campaign by Christian kingdoms in Spain to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. Writing a dramatic history of the Reconquista is hard because it went on for so long. So long, in fact, that both sides had changed character over the intervening 8 centuries, one side morphing from the tribal Visigoths to the kingly state of Ferdinand and Isabella and the other going through a succession of Islamic regimes.” (read more)
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