A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
In the News: (Registration may be required to read some stories)
Annan accuses U.S. of losing its principles “U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called yesterday for the United States to respect international norms, pointedly contrasting Bush administration policies in Iraq with the values that made America great.” (READ MORE)
Israel assays Sunni 'allies' “Israeli officials yesterday quietly welcomed a decision by several Persian Gulf states to consider a nuclear energy program as evidence the region's Sunni Arab governments are becoming more open in their opposition to a common enemy -- Iran.” (READ MORE)
Democrats shopped Foley story to papers “Democratic campaign operatives pushed newspapers to write about then-Rep. Mark Foley's e-mails to teenage pages in the hope that a scandal would emerge before the midterm elections, according to a House ethics report.” (READ MORE)
Experts Advise Bush Not to Reduce Troops “President Bush heard a blunt and dismal assessment of his handling of Iraq from a group of military experts yesterday, but the advisers shared the White House's skeptical view of the recommendations made last week by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, sources said.” (READ MORE)
Democrats Freeze Earmarks for Now “Democratic leaders declared a temporary moratorium on special-interest provisions known as earmarks as they attempt to cope with a budget crisis left by the outgoing Republican-led 109th Congress.” (READ MORE)
To Stem Iraqi Violence, U.S. Aims to Create Jobs “As Iraq descends further into violence and disarray, the Pentagon is turning to a weapon some believe should have been used years ago: jobs.” (READ MORE)
News From the Front:
Michael Fumento writes Maj. Megan McClung and Capt. Travis Patriquin, RIP “I only heard Marine Major Megan McClung yell once, but it was righteous anger. If this were fiction, it might be considered foreshadowing. It was at Camp Ramadi headquarters outside of the city proper and away from the hostilities. The 34-year-old McClung, head Public Affairs Officer (PAO) for Al Anbar Province, was barking at a public affairs sergeant. ‘Ramadi is the most dangerous city in Iraq and you're going to get your men out there to cover it!’” (READ MORE)
Bill Roggio writes Spirit of America in Anbar “Since of Fallujah was wrested from the control of al-Qaeda and the insurgency in November of 2004, the Coalition and Iraq government have worked to restore security and basic services the warn-torn city. Major Britt Rosenberry, stationed in Camp Fallujah, has 3-man teams who patrol with the Army and Marine Infantry throughout the entire Al Anbar Province. They interact with the citizens and concerned with their plight.” (READ MORE)
On the Web:
Bill Murchison writing at Townhall.com writes To the President: Lead! “Wasn't it plain enough going in? You don't need a blue-ribbon commission stuffed and dressed with Beltway eminences to tell you how to win a war.” (READ MORE)
Rich Lowry writing at Townhall.com writes The madness of Jimmy Carter “Jimmy Carter brings a Christian perspective to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Unfortunately, it is the same Christian perspective as a drunken Mel Gibson, obsessed with heaping blame on the Jews.” (READ MORE)
Jules Crittenden writes Nothing Succeeds like Success “George Bush drops another big hint that he didn't think much of the Inane Strategy Guesswork recommendations: ‘Like most Americans, this administration wants to succeed in Iraq because we understand success in Iraq would help protect the United States in the long run.’” (READ MORE)
Allahpundit writes Video: Debra Burlingame On The Flying Imams “She says she’s heard from plenty of Muslims who are mortified by the imams’ behavior. I believe her. Says M. Zuhdi Jasser, writing for FreeMuslims.org:” (READ MORE)
Dean Barnett writing at Hugh Hewitt writes Proof That I'm Smarter Than Greenwald! “I don’t say that lightly. Glenn Greenwald is the acknowledged intellectual titan of the left wing blogosphere. He uses really long sentences and writes really long blog posts, so there’s no mistaking his mighty brain-power. But when Rahm Emmanuel appeared on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” during the height of Foley-mania, Greenwald missed the small fact that Rahm was lying through his teeth. I, on the other hand, caught it.” (READ MORE)
Jay Tea writes The Sins of The Father “For some reason, certain asshats find it entertaining to send me links to all sorts of silly things. I've gotten to the point where my e-mail automatically deletes anything that links to truthout, alter.net, and a couple of other pages. Every now and then something sneaks through, and for some inane reason I occasionally take a glimpse at what these asshats think is entertaining or enlightening. I wish to hell I had just deleted one of them, though, because it's got me infuriated.” (READ MORE)
Dafydd writes More Fine Distinctions From the Drive-By Media “Take a look at this Reuters headline and see if the same thing catches your eye as caught mine: ‘U.S.-led raid, suicide bomber kill at least 12 Afghans’ My first thought was, whose brilliant idea was it to allow suicide bombers to embed with American military forces? But somehow, that didn't seem to be very plausible. Scratching my brain, I read the lede graf (note the cool journalistic buzz words I incorrectly lumped together):” (READ MORE)
Captain Ed writes No Reduction In Troops: Military “President Bush heard from his military experts about the situation in Iraq and the way forward to win the war. While they agreed with the Iraq Study Group's report on the current woes of the mission, they disagreed strongly with the ISG's recommendations for resolving them:” (READ MORE)
Michelle Malkin writes Fran O'Brien's update “Remember Fran O'Brien's? In April, milbloggers and my friend Buzz Patterson rallied to support the restaurant in Washington, D.C. that provided free weekly steak dinners to wounded soldiers staying at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A reader sends a brief update reported in the Washington Post yesterday. They're moving to McLean, Va.:” (READ MORE)
Right Wing News writes Vulgar, Stupid Liberals On Parade “Tom Delay's new blog didn't officially go live until yesterday. However, on Sunday, apparently before they had any sort of method of screening comments in place, the word got out about the blog and some liberal blogs linked to it.” (READ MORE)
Thomas Sowell writing at Townhall.com writes Supreme Farce “It might be a hilarious comedy routine to have a group of highly educated judges solemnly expounding on something that everybody knows to be utter nonsense. But it isn't nearly as funny when this solemn discourse about nonsense takes place on the Supreme Court of the United States -- and when most people are unaware of what nonsense the learned justices are talking.” (READ MORE)
Andi of Andi’s World writes The Death of Civility “I believe in calling a spade a spade, but there are occasions where civility is not only required, but should be a person's primal instinct. Sadly, these days, where conservatives are concerned, civility is all but dead. What has happened that we find ourselves in an era where bad manners are considered acceptable behavior as long as there's a conservative on the receiving end?” (READ MORE)
Dan Riehl writes Kofi Annan: Humble Servant Of Man? “The UN reached unprecedented levels of incompetence, corruption and even crime during Kofi Annan's ten year tour as Secretary General. Today in a parting editorial, Annan apparently wants us to believe he is a humble servant of humanity. Unfortunately, at the end of his tenure we see no humility at all from Kofi Annan. A better man would have at least mentioned something of his experience at the UN, such as it was.” (READ MORE)
ShrinkWrapped writes A Contrarian Look at the Iraq War “The Conventional Wisdom, as expressed by various members of the MSM, Congressmen, Senators, the occasional artiste, and the odd pundit or two, has it that the Iraq War has been a costly mistake, a disaster that we are losing; in short, in the words of that most traditional of the CW purveyors, Don Imus, ‘a mess.’ It is rarely established by what metric the War is a disaster, though there seems to be a heavy reliance on ‘body counts’ and usually unsubstantiated reports from various stringers that support the meme of the day.” (READ MORE)
The Belmont Club writes What a Wonderful World “The West is not at war with terrorism, or radical Islamism. In fact, it's not at war with anyone. Every British soldier killed or injured in Iraq or Afghanistan past a certain date can claim compensation for criminal assault, not combat, because the lawyers have determined there is no "war" going on. And there are no enemies. They are in fact -- or perhaps more accurately in fiction -- only criminals. The Daily Telegraph reports:” (READ MORE)
Blonde Sagacity writes "Diplomatic Immunity" Incurs Big Bucks... “It seems the same people that cry about the money being spent in Iraq, the deficit and cuts in welfare and education are also the ones crying for immunity for illegals and that scoff at those that want the US out of the UN... Yet, if we had the money spent on illegals and the money incurred by a perverted interpretation of ‘diplomatic immunity’...we could fund a whole host of areas that have sustained cutbacks.” (READ MORE)
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