A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
In the News: (Registration may be required to read some stories)
Al-Qaida threatens to topple Lebanon govt. “Al-Qaida has purportedly issued a statement threatening to topple Lebanon's "corrupt" Western-backed government, according to a London-based Arabic newspaper Monday.” (READ MORE)
China sub secretly stalked U.S. fleet “A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has learned.” (READ MORE)
Democrats to propose Iraq pullout “The two top Senate Democrats on foreign policy yesterday said they will introduce a resolution in January calling for troops to start being withdrawn from Iraq by this summer, a move that Sen. John McCain said would put the U.S. in the worst of both worlds.” (READ MORE)
Gates likely to sustain terror war “Defense Secretary-designate Robert M. Gates is not expected to rein in the aggressive global war on al Qaeda started by predecessor Donald H. Rumsfeld or reverse the transformation of the Army, but instead focus on how to win in Iraq...” (READ MORE)
Pelosi Backs Murtha for House Majority Leader “Speaker-to-be's endorsement throws her into a contentious intraparty fight between the former Marine and her current deputy, Steny Hoyer.” (READ MORE)
News From the Front:
Bus bomb kills 20 in Baghdad “A bomb tore through in a minibus in a largely Shiite Baghdad neighborhood Monday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 18. Gunmen killed at least 10 people, including a television cameraman, a city councilman and a Sunni sheik, in executions and assassinations around Iraq.” (READ MORE)
Shi'ite fanatic rises in Iraq to fill void left by Zarqawi “Less than six months after an American air strike ended Abu Musab Zarqawi's campaign of Sunni terrorism, an equally brutal fanatic has emerged on the Shi'ite side of the religious divide.” (READ MORE)
Michael Yon writes The Perfect Evil: Part Three of Three “Consensus is growing among experts on Afghanistan that without a sudden and sharp change in plan, the Taliban could regain control of the nation. My own observations led me to the same conclusion as General McCaffrey: we could lose the war in Afghanistan.” (READ MORE)
EIGHT TERRORISTS KILLED; 41 DETAINED DURING MULTIPLE RAIDS “Coalition Forces killed eight terrorists and detained 41 suspected terrorists while conducting multiple raids in the Baghdad area this morning. During one of the raids, Coalition Forces called for the suspects in a building to surrender. The suspected terrorists began firing on Coalition Forces and attempted to flee the building. Coalition Forces returned fire killing eight terrorists and wounding one. Sixteen others threw down their weapons and surrendered.” (READ MORE)
IA, MND-B SOLDIERS SEIZE WEAPONS IN APARTMENT COMPLEX “Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers seized a large weapons cache and detained three individuals in the Qa-Qaa apartment Complex in Mahmudiyah, 30 km south of Baghdad, Saturday morning. Iraqi Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, Fourth Brigade, Sixth Iraqi Army Division, teamed up with a U.S. advisory team from 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, and conducted a “cordon and knock” operation in the apartment complex.” (READ MORE)
Bill Roggio writes The al-Masri Victory Speech “Al-Masri declares victory in Iraq, Iraqi Army strikes at al-Qaeda leader in Rawah. al-Qaeda in Iraq has weighed in on the U.S. midterm elections. Abu Ayyub al-Masri (a.k.a. Abu Hamza al-Muhajir), the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, has released an audiotape. In the tape, al-Masri praised the results of the midterm election, threatened continual attacks against the United States and Israel, declared allegiance to the Iraqi leader of the Mujahideen Shura, and devoted a large force to fight under his banner.” (READ MORE)
On the Web:
William Rusher writing at Townhall.com writes Understanding the Election Results “The first thing to be noted about Tuesday's election returns is that they were not, in any serious sense, a Democratic victory. They were, however, a thoroughgoing Republican defeat.” (READ MORE)
Suzanne Fields writing at Townhall.com writes The Path of Good Intentions “No matter which party governs, it can always expect to be aggressively pursued by bribery, debauchery and corruption. Temptation trumps good intentions when the elected become more concerned with holding on to power than pleasing the people who put them in office.” (READ MORE)
James Bowman writing at Townhall.com writes Honor Defined: The Reflexive and the Cultural “At its simplest, honor is the good opinion of the people who matter to us, and who matter because we regard them as a society of equals who have the power to judge our behavior.” (READ MORE)
Crazy Politico writes No Doubts “There are no remaining doubts about the Democrat's course for Iraq. Nancy Pelosi has decided to back John Murtha for Majority Leader in the House, making Cut and Run (tm) the official policy for Iraq. The move wont' be without cost to Pelosi, as she's stabbing Steny Hoyer from Maryland in the back, he's her current Minority Whip in the House.” (READ MORE)
Bruce Thornton writing at Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers writes The Sage and the Sword “The West’s condemnation of Israel’s accidental shelling of two Palestinian Arab houses that killed 18 people once more reveals the bizarre incoherence that addles our thinking. The jihadists for years have purposely used their own families as cover for attacks in order to create exactly what we are seeing now: Israel’s accidental killing of women and children while attempting to protect their own elicits from the West vehement condemnations that ignore the jihadists’ culpability in putting their own people at risk. Meanwhile, deliberate killing and shelling of Israelis is met with generic condemnations of the “cycle of violence,” usually delivered with an accusatory finger pointed at Israel.” (READ MORE)
Jay Tea writes Hell No, We Won't Go! “Last week's elections reminded me of a principle that I find I need to remind myself of fairly often: if you're assigning blame for something, start with the person or persons who actually committed the action before you start blaming others for not stopping it. They have the primary responsibility.” (READ MORE)
Dafydd writes In-BEDDD Bloggers “I'm coining a new phrase: Bush Election-Disappointment Depression Disorder, or BEDDD. (And that's just where some of them should be staying for a while, until they start to recover; I also recommend plenty of fluids.) I've talked about this before, but it's not getting any better; rather, it seems to be sweeping the Right like an epidemic, despite the best efforts of Captain Ed, Hugh Hewitt, and myself. And one of the most seriously infected is my all-time favorite blog, Power Line.” (READ MORE)
Captain Ed writes The Definition Of Political Insanity “... is electing the same leadership after an embarrassing failure and expecting a different result. Robert Novak explores this weird psychosis that will apparently afflict the Republican House caucus this week, as it prepares to return John Boehner and Roy Blunt to their current leadership positions, now in the minority:” (READ MORE)
Cassandra writes Blessed Be The Peace Makers “Mirabile dictu! Welcome to the Age of Wonders! Gone are those stale, motheaten modes of conjecture in which actions have consequences, wars are won or lost, and real people live or die depending on the courses we chart. Why unnecessarily constrain your decision space with arbitrary trade offs when simply redefining the problem opens up a world of new possibilities? Nancy Pelosi shows the kind of fresh thinking that got her where she is today:” (READ MORE)
Stop the ACLU has Expect Democrats To Kick Open The Doors Of Congress to Islamists from CAIR and other militant groups “It keeps getting better and better. The Democrats leading us in a “new direction” or leading us to slaughter? If cut and run in Iraq isn’t enough to make one worry, then how about being a shill for groups like CAIR, who have a history of terrorist ties in order to push their politically correct and dangerous policies?” (READ MORE)
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