A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
In the News: (Registration may be required to read some stories)
Pakistan Test-Fires Medium-Range Missile “Pakistan said it successfully test-fired a new version of its nuclear-capable medium-range missile Thursday — a show of power a day after peace talks with India that were criticized by domestic hard-liners.” (READ MORE)
General Warns of Risks in Iraq if G.I.'s Are Cut “The top American military commander for the Middle East said Wednesday that to begin a significant troop withdrawal from Iraq over the next six months would lead to an increase in sectarian killings and hamper efforts to persuade the Iraqi government to make the difficult decisions needed to secure the country.” (READ MORE)
Bush, in Asia, Makes Appeal on N. Korea “The president opened a five-day tour of Asia today with an appeal to Asian nations to keep up pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, and to enforce U.N. sanctions.” (READ MORE)
House race pits Murtha vs. ethics “House Democrats will decide today whether to install as their majority leader one of the most scandal-tainted members of Congress.” (READ MORE)
Pelosi Splits Democrats With Push for Murtha “Showdown over the House majority leader's post today; Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) accused of using strong-arm tactics.” (READ MORE)
News From the Front:
Iraqi Police, SF nab terror leaders “Iraqi Special Forces Soldiers and Police nabbed terror-cell leaders and members in raids in Baghdad over the last two days, U.S. officials reported.” (READ MORE)
Nine Terrorists Killed, Nine Detained South of Yusufiyah “Coalition Forces killed nine terrorists and detained nine suspected terrorists during a raid Thursday just south of Yusufiyah, further diminishing the al-Qaida in Iraq network.” (READ MORE)
One Terrorists Killed, Four Captured by Afghan, Coalition Forces “One terrorist was killed and four were captured during an early morning operation today by Afghan and Coalition forces near Payanden Khel in the Kabul Province.” (READ MORE)
On the Web:
Donald Lambro writing at Townhall.com writes To save Iraq, follow Reagan's playbook “The search for a solution to the war in Iraq has been put on hold in the government until a bipartisan 10-member commission submits its recommendations next month.” (READ MORE)
George Will writing at Townhall.com writes The 9th strikes out on death penalty “There should be two Supreme Courts, one to reverse the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the other to hear all other cases.” (READ MORE)
Larry Elder writing at Townhall.com writes On Iraq: Okay, Democrats, Now What? “After the Democratic takeover of Congress, one pundit simply wrote off this hideous allegation as mere pre-election posturing. You know, just "politics." (READ MORE)
Jonah Goldberg writing at Townhall.com writes Racism by any other name “It's time to admit that ‘diversity’ is code for racism. If it makes you feel better, we can call it ‘nice’ racism or ‘well-intentioned’ racism or ‘racism that's good for you.’” (READ MORE)
Crazy Politico writes Listen To The Commanders, Unless... “General John Abizaid, the "on the ground commander" in Iraq found out today that all the talk running up to the election about listening to the commanders was just standard election time talk. Abizaid wasn't pulling punches, admits there are problems, but doesn't see either a huge influx of troops, or a timetable for withdrawl as the answer in Iraq. Which of course got the folks who (think they) know better up in arms.” (READ MORE)
Kobayashi Maru writes Vietnam Parallels That ‘Do’ Ring True “With so many on the left insisting on parallels between Iraq and Vietnam that simply do not exist, it is after some initial skepticism that I note one that does. Michael Oren, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, and author of the soon-to-be published "Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present," opines in this morning's WSJ on the limited options available to a president otherwise aware of and highly sympathetic to an impending military crisis likely to hit one of America's staunchest allies:” (READ MORE)
Dean Barnett writing at Hugh Hewitt writes ‘Jihad’ In The Draw “As you know, I’ve been engaging in conference calls the last few days with the handful of congress-people who seek to lead the Republicans out of the darkness in the 110th Congress. Over at NZ Bear’s site, the furry one has compiled a list of questions that blog readers wanted posed to the ladder-climbing reps. One of the most interesting, and least tendentious, was the following: ‘What books have you read about Islamic terrorism against America and the West?’” (READ MORE)
Kim Priestap writing at Wizbang writes Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich Calls to Cut Funds for Iraq “Obviously, we must consider the source because Kucinich is a bit of a nutcase. Anyway, while on a blogger conference call with Congressman Boehner, I took advantage and asked him about Kucinich's announcement. He doesn't believe that this would succeed because not only would the Republicans fight this, but most of the Democrats would as well, and many of them simply because it's Kucinich who is proposing this asinine idea.” (READ MORE)
Dafydd writes The Guardian Spills the Beans “In a longish and fascinating article linked by Drudge, the left-wing U.K. Guardian (once the Manchester Guardian) offers us more analysis and realistic speculation than any American newspaper I've yet read. It's definitely worth reading in its entirety. The basic thrust is here:” (READ MORE)
Captain Ed writes Whither The GOP? “After the midterm elections, many of us hoped that the Republican Party would return to conservative First Principles in an attempt to recapture the energy that propelled them to majority status in 1994. Refocusing on the bedrock principles of limited government, fiscal discipline, strong national defense, and ethical governance would allow the GOP to reconnect to voters that grew to mistrust the Republicans after the last six years of big-government bloat and pork-barrel politicking.” (READ MORE)
Confederate Yankee writes Who Needs Jews, Anyway? “Ralph Peters penned a powerful editorial in this morning's New York Post advocating that the strongest measures be taken to impose order in Iraq, even if that order goes against the wishes of Iraq's elected government and comes at the barrel of a gun:” (READ MORE)
ShrinkWrapped writes Neo-Isolationism in a Global War “At the moment, a great deal of effort is being expended to understand and/or spin the results of the election. The war in Iraq was a major influence on the electorate, though it is an open question whether the results were supportive of Democratic efforts to ‘get out now’ or more likely, the outcome of frustration over the wearying, ongoing drip-drip-drip of casualties in combination with a media/Democratic driven sense that the war, as currently conducted, is unwinnable.” (READ MORE)
Texas Rainmaker writes What Media Bias? “Jack Abramoff has implicated Senate Majority Leader-to-be, Harry Reid in engaging in illegal activities with the disgraced former lobbyist and the MSM is eerily silent on the story. The only story I could find when searching Yahoo or Google news was this one… and it’s on the back pages of ABCnew’s blog.” (READ MORE)
Yankee Mom writes Wednesday’s Hero “Maj. Guy Barattieri 36 years old from Seattle, Washington National Guard’s Alpha Co., 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group October 4, 2006 Everyone called him ‘Bear.’ In fact, many of his colleagues at FOX News learned Guy Barattieri’s full name for the first time when they read his obituary.” (READ MORE)
The Belmont Club writes Double or Nothing “Chester links to two articles both of which suggest that the Bush administration is going to modestly increase the number of available men in Iraq in an attempt to do something, that ‘something’ being somewhat vague. The first citation is from the Guardian which makes the argument very similar to an earlier piece in the Weekly Standard: that more troops will bring more success. The Weekly Standard makes the essential argument:” (READ MORE)
Stop the ACLU has Chuck Schumer Says He’ll Veto the Next Alito “Well, all the nightmares predicted and warned about before the elections are coming true. Cut and run in Iraq, creating rights for terrorists, Congress doors opened to groups like CAIR, intensified push to kill the NSA program, and now any hope for a Constitutionalist majority on the Supreme Court dashed. Schumer talks about judges like Alito, but if it comes to the point that Bush has an opportunity to select another SCOTUS judge he may not even get a Harriet Myers by.” (READ MORE
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