The growing debate over the photo release, the backtracking from the original version of the raid (armed or unarmed, firefight or no, wife or daughter, etc.), the abandonment of virtually every campaign pledge about how to fight terrorism, to include not calling it terrorism, all of this and more is most encouraging.
How so?
The American people need and deserve a victory in the War on Terror.
However, for the 10 years of vigorously obstructing the justice that was achieved Sunday night in Pakistan, it is very important that this White House, liberal Democrats, the intellectual Left, and the elite media, get no credit for it all.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
How Does Abu Ghraib You?
Have you noticed all this hand-wringing by the White House, liberal Democrats, the Left, and the Main Stream Media over whether or not to release photos of the dead Osama bin Laden?
For heaven's sake, have they already forgotten the Abu Ghraib snapshots which, for them, it was a constitutional, nay, a natural law imperative that any and all pictures of panty-hooded Iraqis be posted on the Internet immediately if not yesterday?
Unbounded hypocrisy on display yet again.
For heaven's sake, have they already forgotten the Abu Ghraib snapshots which, for them, it was a constitutional, nay, a natural law imperative that any and all pictures of panty-hooded Iraqis be posted on the Internet immediately if not yesterday?
Unbounded hypocrisy on display yet again.
Bin Laden and the Left
In a column that will doubtless prompt howls of indignant protest, NRO's Mona Charen compares and makes explicit the similarities between the animating motivations of Osama bin Laden and those of the American Left.
It ain't hard to do.
Take cover Mona.
It ain't hard to do.
Take cover Mona.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Might I Have a Word?
I'm a baseball fan, the Atlanta Braves to be precise, and, as you may have heard, their pitching coach was just suspended for two weeks without pay for making, among other things, "homophobic" remarks to some heckling fans while the Braves played a game in San Francisco.
While I won't quibble with his punishment which, if for no other reason than the stupidity of responding to hecklers, seems just, I would like to dwell for a moment on the word "homophobe".
What, exactly, is meant by this? Why is a racist not called a "negrophobe"? Or a miscongynist, a "gynophobe"?
Could it be that revulsion at homosexuality is so natural, so reflexive, particularly among heterosexual males, that it requires something more than a traditional descriptive in order to discredit it effectively? That is, might resistance to the normalization of homosexuality be so strong that to fight that resistance it must be labeled something more than just a garden variety bigotry, it must be called instead a psychological disorder, in fact, a phobia?
Just wondering.
While I won't quibble with his punishment which, if for no other reason than the stupidity of responding to hecklers, seems just, I would like to dwell for a moment on the word "homophobe".
What, exactly, is meant by this? Why is a racist not called a "negrophobe"? Or a miscongynist, a "gynophobe"?
Could it be that revulsion at homosexuality is so natural, so reflexive, particularly among heterosexual males, that it requires something more than a traditional descriptive in order to discredit it effectively? That is, might resistance to the normalization of homosexuality be so strong that to fight that resistance it must be labeled something more than just a garden variety bigotry, it must be called instead a psychological disorder, in fact, a phobia?
Just wondering.
An Explanation
If my last post was a bit too petulant for your taste, let me explain.
I cannot now, nor likely will ever, forgive President Obama, the lion's share of his Democrat Party colleagues, and all of the American Left for just how unnecessarily difficult they made, over the past 10 years, this most obvious of duties, and for no reason other than rank political expediency.
I cannot now, nor likely will ever, forgive President Obama, the lion's share of his Democrat Party colleagues, and all of the American Left for just how unnecessarily difficult they made, over the past 10 years, this most obvious of duties, and for no reason other than rank political expediency.
Thank You Mr. President
Osama Bin Laden is dead. While we have much for which to be thankful, we should in the first instance thank our Commander-in-Chief.
Thank you Mr. President for:
...breaking your campaign pledge to close ASAP the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center,
...continuing the interrogation of the prisoners held there, or at least not forswearing the use of any actionable intelligence gathered thereby,
...eschewing your promise to capture, i.e., not to kill, Bin Laden, as the latter would only have served to enhance his status by making him a martyr in the world of Muslim terrorists,
...forgoing the restrictive, shoot-to-wound, read'em-their-rights, and get'em-a-lawyer R.O.E. (Rules of Engagement) favored by so many of those who constitute your political base, as well as the Democrat Party.
Thank you Mr. President for:
...breaking your campaign pledge to close ASAP the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center,
...continuing the interrogation of the prisoners held there, or at least not forswearing the use of any actionable intelligence gathered thereby,
...eschewing your promise to capture, i.e., not to kill, Bin Laden, as the latter would only have served to enhance his status by making him a martyr in the world of Muslim terrorists,
...forgoing the restrictive, shoot-to-wound, read'em-their-rights, and get'em-a-lawyer R.O.E. (Rules of Engagement) favored by so many of those who constitute your political base, as well as the Democrat Party.
Through the Looking Glass Debt Ceiling
Was it George Orwell who said that there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual can believe them?
No matter, the truth is compelling nonetheless.
While I doubt former Bush II Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill qualifies as an intellectual, I'm pretty sure he'll pass for a card-carrying member of the smart set in Washington. Apparently, he seriously thinks that raising the debt ceiling yet again is the only way to secure and improve the nation's faltering credit rating. He's joined in this kind of thinking by current Secretary Tim Geithner, along with countless other DC savants. And all along I thought routinely busting the debt ceiling was the main cause of our faltering credit rating.
I've made this point before, but there is some threshold over which one's antagonists pass where it is no longer meet, in fact it is sure folly to engage them any longer in anything like reasoned debate. The proper response, the only response is mockery. To that end, the invaluable Mark Steyn serves up a satisfying portion on this subject over at NRO.
No matter, the truth is compelling nonetheless.
While I doubt former Bush II Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill qualifies as an intellectual, I'm pretty sure he'll pass for a card-carrying member of the smart set in Washington. Apparently, he seriously thinks that raising the debt ceiling yet again is the only way to secure and improve the nation's faltering credit rating. He's joined in this kind of thinking by current Secretary Tim Geithner, along with countless other DC savants. And all along I thought routinely busting the debt ceiling was the main cause of our faltering credit rating.
I've made this point before, but there is some threshold over which one's antagonists pass where it is no longer meet, in fact it is sure folly to engage them any longer in anything like reasoned debate. The proper response, the only response is mockery. To that end, the invaluable Mark Steyn serves up a satisfying portion on this subject over at NRO.
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