A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Victor Davis Hanson writes Hope Amid Despair? “Pessimism is now the conventional wisdom about the wars in the Middle East , and, indeed, it is hard to find any good news in the recent ceasefire. Syria and Iran stage celebrations as news emerges from the ruins of southern Lebanon revealing just how well-armed Hezbollah was — and how impotent the Lebanese “government” really is. The only suspense remaining is whether the United Nations peacekeeping force or the Lebanese army will prove the most craven in giving Hezbollah a green light to rearm and terrorize. The old Arab agenda of recapturing “stolen” land has been superseded by a new Islamist jihad that is as fanatical as it is inhuman. The Islamists care not a whit for ground, but only for the abject destruction of the Jewish state and to finish the Holocaust that they claim did not take place.” (read more)
Kobayashi Maru writes Apocalypse: Three More Days? “One of the things one notices after being "off-grid" for several weeks is how the MSM operates in a perennial state of ADD. What could be of (literally) world-shattering import one week gives way to endless speculation about, and monomaniacal fascination with the alibis of anorexic pedophile schoolteachers the next. Specifically, while I was busy driving through the desert southwest, listening to Bernard Lewis on CD in my car, he was busy writing an op-ed for the WSJ (free at OpinionJournal). The piece (from August 8th) is likely old news to many. Given its spotlight on the possibility of potentially cataclysmic - if still murky - events to be initiated by Iran next Tuesday, it deserves re-reading.” (read more)
Allahpundit writing at HotAir writes Ceasefire fallout: All the wrong lessons (Update: Lebanese army ordered to “stand with” Hezbollah) “When asked this afternoon why he thought Islamism had become a force in the Arab world, a Palestinian ex-terrorist(!) whose name I forget told Fox it was because all the wars they’d lost to the Zionists had been fought under the banner of Arab pan-nationalism. Islamism was a response to that. Only by fighting under the banner of Allah, the theory went, could they finally reconquer Palestine.” (read more)
Hugh Hewitt writes David Broder: Good News for the GOP “Sunday's David Broder column on the Michigan governor's race includes a key message for GOP incumbents and challengers seeking statehouses. Though this column is about Dick DeVos' surging campaign against Michigan's struggling Governor Jennifer Granholm, the ad message that is working for DeVos will work for Ken Blackwell in Ohio and Bob Beauprez in Colorado, as well as Arnold in California and Tim Pawlenty in Minnesota. The former two are behind but will close; the latter two are ahead and will extend their leads. Key graphs from Broder's piece:” (read more)
William Teach of Pirate’s Cove writes Official Democratic Kooksville “Did you know that Democrats have real plans for America's security? Really, they do. Or so they say: But, the proof is in the pudding. They have complained about every single measure that the GOP and the Bush administration has put in place, and, in the few instances that Bush tries to do something that they say needs to be done, they complain that it is ‘not enough.’” (read more)
Captain Ed writes Europeans Starting To Understand Nature Of Islamofascist Enemy “Germans have begun to wonder why terrorists hate them, especially since they have steadfastly stood against the Iraq War, but hate them they do. As one man goes on trial for attempting a deadly terrorist strike on the German rail system, the Times of London reports on the panic felt by the Germans themselves:” (read more)
Omar of Iraq the Model writes This has got to be stopped! “What happened today in Baghdad was not something unexpected, almost every crowded religious ceremony in Iraq over the past few years was targeted. In fact, every gathering of crowds of civilians makes a soft target that attracts attacks from one or another type of criminals and everyone here knows this yet no one found the will or determination to stop letting this happen over and over again.” (read more)
Betsy Newmark writing at Right Wing News writes The folly of believing French promises “Well, once again, as before the Iraq war began, the French have pulled the football out as we played Charlie Brown again in the UN negotiations over the Lebanon resolution. When will people learn? The Wall Street Journal outlines how empty Resolution 1701 is and how the French have made it so.” (read more)
MasterGunner of Tanker Brothers writes Jane Stillwater Responds to the Tanker Brothers! “Yep, she finally got around to answering us! If you rememeber the post we wrote in response to Jane Stillwater's article about her bellyachin' over CENTCOM denying her Embed status, she's finally gotten around to answering us (or at least checking her comments section). In true Anti-War fashion, she begins to "intelectualize" us, before being reduced to a quivering mass of Anti-War crybaby talking-point Jell-O.” (read more)
Captain B writes Photog who shot Iwo Jima flag-raising dies “Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94. Rosenthal died of natural causes at an assisted living facility in the San Francisco suburb of Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal.” (read more)
Sgt Allen writes Supporting the Mission “Here are your non-partisan reasons why everyone should support the war on terrorism. It isn't the war in Iraq. It isn't the war in Afghanistan. It isn't the war in Somalia. It is the war on terrorism. It is being fought in the bomb builders house and the op-centers. It is being fought in the churches and mosques. It is being fought in the streets and in the houses. Innocents and villains die alike. And there is nothing that can be done to ever take that back.” (read more)
Bandit 36 writes B36 News - 21 August 2006 “What does Baghdad really look like? This. This photo was taken during the recent Shia pilgrimage to comemorate the death of the 7th Imam. Troops convoy in this kind of situation every day. On this particular day there was a ban on vehicle traffic in the city to help the security situation so the streets were even emptier than they usually are.” (read more)
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