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The Spy Who Came In From The Heat
By Ed Driscoll · July 08, 2008 02:10 AM · War And Anti-War
Roger Simon has a fascinating audio interview with "Reza Khalili", the nom de cloak of a man who sounds like quite an interesting fellow: Going public for the first time in an article and podcast on Pajamas Media, an Iranian who infiltrated Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the CIA accuses the mullahs of orchestrating — among other things — the 1988 explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.It's followed by an article from Khalili as well. Update (10:21 AM): Never link to something without listening to it! Apparently technical difficulties have prevented the audio from being used, but the article by "Khalili" is still online. Sen. Kerry Has Fun Storming The Castle
By Ed Driscoll · July 07, 2008 01:35 AM · Oh, That Liberal Media! · The Making of the President · The Memory Hole · War And Anti-War
![]() In 2004, John McCain defended fellow Senator John Kerry against the exceedingly well-deserved attacks by the Swift Boat Vets and related groups. But in the world of Washington, no good deed goes unpunished; and even the Associated Press has to laugh (check out the second paragraph quoted below) at the turn of events involving their candidate's latest surrogate to take a shot at McCain's military service: John Kerry says Republican John McCain doesn't have the judgment to be president.And Kerry is expert in changing in profound and fundamental ways, that millions of Americans found surprising and frankly upsetting. McCain has built his famous "Maverick" reputation by building bridges across the aisle, to the point where numerous conservatives wonder which party McCain owes his allegiance to. How does he view these blue falcon attacks, now numbering at least a dozen if not more, on his military record? Did he expect them as part of business as usual in Washington? Kerry was apparently surprised when his post-war anti-American actions from the early 1970s were questioned in 2004. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page of this Newsweek postmortem from immediately after the 2004 election to Kerry's apoplexy when Charlie Gibson questioned him about his infamous early-1970s ribbon toss.) I'd be curious if McCain, who was a POW in Hanoi during Kerry's Winter Soldier days, is equally surprised. My Left Foot
Bill Clinton is now Democrat number #10 or #11 who has fun storming the castle, attacking John McCain's military service and POW experience. Though as always with Bill's hamhanded attacks, and yes, I use this word rather advisedly, there's a remarkable amount of blowback to his candidate involved. AP: US Removes Uranium From Iraq
Iraq had a nuclear program? Who knew! (Well, other than the Israelis in 1981, and all of these folks, but nevermind that): The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.Joe Wilson could not be reached for comment. A Modest Proposal
Since Wesley Clark, that MacArthur for the 21st century, is apparently I Think We Can Question Their Patriotism On This One
Complete with photos and video of their all-too-predictable meltdown, Gateway Pundit illustrates how "Code Pink disrupted President Bush at 46th Annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony." It certainly would have been fun to watch the aftermath if they had attempted to disrupt this Fourth of July ceremony... Hyperbole Much, Fellas?
By Ed Driscoll · July 04, 2008 10:36 AM · Oh, That Liberal Media! · The Reich Stuff · War And Anti-War
Chicago Sun-Times: "Boeing as amoral as firms that aided Hitler." John Glenn and Harry Reid could not be reached for comment. The Red, Red Vino On Tap
By Ed Driscoll · July 03, 2008 06:36 PM · Liberal Fascism · The Gulag Archipelago · The Memory Hole · The Return of the Primitive · War And Anti-War
Ivan Osorio quips: My friend Tom Palmer says that whenever he sees somebody sporting a Che Guevara t-shirt, he likes to ask the wearer, “That’s a great t-shirt; do you have the entire collection?” The wearer usually responds either with a blank stare or by asking Tom what does he mean, to which Tom then responds: “You know, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot…”Wnat's the photo? Well, as Ivan asks, "Would they also have Castro rum and Stalin vodka?" (Via Tim Blair, who notes, "Che may finally have liberated someone, but he’s still mixing with the wrong crowd.") "Forget The Good War"--Reframing World War II
By Ed Driscoll · July 03, 2008 04:21 PM · Hollywood, Interrupted · Liberal Fascism · Oh, That Liberal Media! · The Memory Hole · The New Puritans · The Return of the Primitive · War And Anti-War
At least until the tail end of the first decade of the 21st century, World War II always seemed like pretty settled history to me; but it's obvious that the Second World War--particularly the conduct of the Allies--is being reframed by a surprising number of groups. As Victor Davis Hanson wrote last month: Questioning the past is a good thing, but rewriting it contrary to facts is quite another. In the latest round of revisionism about the Second World War, the awful British and naive Americans, not the poor Germans, have ended up as the real culprits.That's the theme of a new mini-series written by moderate historian Niall Ferguson, but aired on the otherwise typically liberal PBS, as Adam Buckman notes in an article whose subtitle says it all: "PBS Show To Argue Allies As Bad As Nazis": MEMBERS of the Greatest Generation - especially those with weak hearts - might want to steer clear of an upcoming PBS documentary that suggests the Allied victory in World War II was "tainted" and questions whether it can even be called a victory.I think Austin Bay once quipped to me (and possibly wrote about the theme in a column as well) that you could make a pretty good case that the First World War didn't actually conclude until 1991, (and arguably, not even then) so that's not an unreasonable point, though as Buckman notes: But it is Ferguson's revisionist view of the tactics applied by the Allies in World War II that is likely to raise the hackles of those who have always believed in the "necessity" of bombing German and Japanese civilians, culminating in the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to end a war we did not start.Sort of a Liberal Fascism, to coin a phrase originally spoken, favorably, three quarters of a century ago by the same author also who inspired the title of Ferguson's miniseries, which Dorothy Rabinowitz reviews, and in an essay titled "Forget the Good War", adds: Russian troops had liberated Auschwitz, yes, but we're reminded that Stalin had imprisoned and murdered millions. Does this mean the liberation of Auschwitz was nothing? A good question with no answer. Mr. Ferguson is content to have delivered another in his long stream of accusatory ironies and contradictions, all in support of the claim that the morally tainted Allied armies should not be credited as liberators.Meanwhile, regarding Pat Buchanan's new book, at Pajamas HQ, Sheryl Longin writes: The left is currently the home of some of the worst forms of cultural relativism, but let us not forget that the right houses its own equally dangerous revisionist historians who attempt to use their false history to influence current events. Now is not a time when America can afford to be fuzzy with the truth. Facts are facts. Ideology blinds people. We forget that at our own peril.But in the afterward of Liberal Fascism, titled, "The Tempting Of Conservatism", which documented several examples of how the modern right is also susceptible to fascism, Jonah Goldberg wrote: In the 1990s liberal anger about Buchanan’s “right-wing” fascism reached a fever pitch. As Molly Ivins wrote in response to Buchanan’s 1992 Republican National Convention speech: “It probably sounded better in the original German.” The irony here is that Buchanan was actually moving to the left. For years Buchanan’s opponents called him a crypto-Nazi for his defense of Ronald Reagan and the GOP. In reality, the only thing that kept his fascist instincts in check was his loyalty to the GOP and the conservative movement. After Reagan and the Cold War, Buchanan abandoned both in a leftward search for his true principles.And Buchanan's magazine, despite its American Conservative sobriquet, is pretty darn cozy with the far fringes of the American left, and it appears that World War II is yet another issue where Pat and the far left, both then and now are remarkably simpatico. Could Hollywood beckon next? Update: Did Pat cook the books? "Busted!... Nazi Sympathizer Pat Buchanan Accused of Plagiarism, Hacked Quotes & Wrong Dates." Wes Has Fun Storming The Castle
By Ed Driscoll · June 30, 2008 10:42 PM · The Making of the President · The Memory Hole · War And Anti-War
Wesley Clark steps in it, Ed Morrissey writes: After decades in the news business, Bob Schieffer may have thought he’d heard it all — until yesterday on Face the Nation, when he interviewed Wesley Clark. Clark came as a surrogate for the Barack Obama campaign and attacked John McCain’s military service, saying that he was “untested and untried”. After Schieffer pointed out that McCain commanded the largest naval air squadron, had honorably endured over five years of torture as a POW in Vietnam, and had been on the Senate Armed Services committee since Obama was in college, Schieffer asked how Clark could claim that McCain was “untested and untried”. Clark stunned him with this answer: Jim Geraghty notes that Clark's slur is one of eight attacks on McCain's military service by surrogates of the Obama campaign: Is anyone else sensing a sharper edge to Team McCain since Wes Clark became Democrat Number Seven and Rand Beers became Democrat Number Eight in speaking critically of John McCain's service in Vietnam?As Orrin Judd noted on Sunday, "The poor Democrats still think John Kerry lost because his service to his country was attacked, rather than his disservice.""Mr. Beers' remarks are part of a pattern of Obama supporters attacking John McCain's military service, and a reminder of why it's what Sen. Obama, his supporters and his campaign actually do that matters most," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers tells ABC News. "Sen. Obama speaking out against these attacks isn't really relevant — either his supporters aren't hearing him or they don't believe his words."It's really nice that Obama said today that "no one should ever devalue that service, especially for the sake of a political campaign." It's also meaningless if everyone else in the Democratic party ignores him. Barack Obama doesn't have total control of the actions and words of every surrogate, but after the eighth instance, without any major consequence beyond a spokesman saying that Obama "rejects" the surrogate's statement, it starts to look like a deliberate and cynical good cop/bad cop routine. Let's see the candidate himself calling out his supporters by name. Let's see some heads rolling — was Samantha Power's declaration that Hillary was a "monster" really that much worse? (Team McCain ditched Cunningham over using Obama's middle name.) We looked at a few of the previous attacks on McCain's service in a mid-May edition of Silicon Graffiti: In a related development, John Hinderaker spots a pair of attempts to make these attacks seem bipartisan: Politico--and still more the anonymous Yahoo News headline writer!--know that attacks on McCain's service by the Obama campaign and other Democrats are poisonous and likely to backfire. So they are trying to give the Democrats cover by creating the misleading impression that these disgusting smears are somehow bipartisan.Read the rest, complete with a screen capture of Yahoo's headline. The Tragic End Of Bush's North Korea Policy
As the above quoted headline of his Wall Street Journal op-ed suggests, John Bolton is none-too-pleased with President Bush's declaration that North Korea is no longer a state sponsor of terrorism: Maskirovka – the Soviet dark art of denial, deception and disguise – is alive and well in Pyongyang, years after the Soviet Union disappeared. Unfortunately, the Bush administration appears not to have gotten the word.Read the whole thing. "Saving Private Zion"
By Ed Driscoll · June 29, 2008 08:20 PM · Hollywood, Interrupted · Muggeridge's Law · The Return of the Primitive · War And Anti-War
Charles Johnson has a video clip of, as he says, a typically bizarre piece of Iranian antisemitic propaganda, with the usual lunatic conspiracy theories run amok, and notes: Good grief. The bizarre antisemitic propaganda being fed to the Iranian people would be funny in a dark way if it didn’t provoke such a sense of foreboding, of history repeating.Capt. Jack Sparrow, Tom and Jerry, and the cast of Zionist poultry from Chicken Run could not be reached for comment. The Canadian "Human Rights" Commission Blinks
By Ed Driscoll · June 27, 2008 01:19 PM · The Future and its Enemies · The Newspeak Dictionary · The Return of the Primitive · War And Anti-War
Ezra Levant writes, "The Canadian Human Rights Commission, like any petty tyranny, has a strong instinct for survival": As I predicted last week on the Michael Coren Show, that instinct would cause them to drop the complaint against Mark Steyn and Maclean's. And so they did.While this is a victory of a sorts, as David Warren wrote last December, the process itself is a form of punishment: For more than twenty years, in this column and elsewhere, I have been writing against the human rights commissions, which have quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country. They are kangaroo courts, in which the defendant's right to due process is withdrawn. They reach judgements on the basis of no fixed law. Moreover, “the process is the punishment” in these star chambers -- for simply by agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing.And if you haven't heard it yet, click here for my recent XM interview with Jonah Goldberg and Kathy Shaidle on the topic. Update: "Isn't it funny how we're having more fun than the asshats trying to **** with us?" The Road To Kosovo
By Ed Driscoll · June 23, 2008 10:57 AM · From Bauhaus To Our House · The New, New Journalism · War And Anti-War
Bing and Bob are nowhere to be found, but Michael Totten has an amazing assemblage of photos and stories from the road, in a locale that combines Christianity, Islam, and beautiful architecture amidst plenty of Soviet-era concrete monstrosities. Blogger Reaches Nirvana
By Ed Driscoll · June 22, 2008 02:51 PM · Oh, That Liberal Media! · Radical Chic · The Making of the President · War And Anti-War
Will Kim Jong Il endorse Sen. Barack Obama? Yes he can! Castro we knew about, and Qaddafi chimed in just the other day, but Kim Jong Il?Meanwhile, See Dubya also asks, "Come on, Osama, your turn…you know you’ve got one tape left in you…" If he does, will Uncle Walter once again blame it on Karl Rove, as he did when Punxsutawney Osama emerged and saw his shadow during the last weekend of October in 2004? Is It Time For The Re-Pivot?
By Ed Driscoll · June 22, 2008 01:33 PM · The Making of the President · The Memory Hole · War And Anti-War
James Taranto writes: Could it be that Obama is planning to pivot? That is, what if he goes to Iraq and declares upon his return that he has been persuaded that the surge has made a difference, that things are going much better, and that he is now convinced victory is both possible and crucial?On the other hand, it would give his opposition a chance to remind voters of his party's original pivot: Pat's Completely Lost it
Charles Johnson is livid over a recent Pat Buchanan op-ed titled "Was the Holocaust Inevitable?", and I can't say I blame him. Key passage from Buchanan here: That Hitler was a rabid anti-Semite is undeniable. "Mein Kampf" is saturated in anti-Semitism. The Nuremberg Laws confirm it. But for the six years before Britain declared war, there was no Holocaust, and for two years after the war began, there was no Holocaust.Did I read that passage correctly? It's the fault of England and America entering the war that the Holocaust occurred? And if they hadn't, Europe and its Jews would have lived happily ever after under Nazi rule? Even though Germany's euthanasia experiments predate the outbreak of WWII? And the systematic killing of Jews in Europe and Russia predates the Wannsee conference? And in Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that he wished thousands of Jews had been gassed in WWI? While Pat at least acknowledges (grudgingly?) that the Holocaust took place, he's rapidly going down the path already traveled by David Irving. A few months ago, shortly after William F. Buckley's death, Jonathan Tobin wrote: Long after he chased the Birchers out of NR, Buckley found himself forced to confront the issue again. When longtime colleagues Pat Buchanan and Joseph Sobran used their bully pulpits on the right to bash Israel and stigmatize Jews for their support for the state, it was again Buckley who took on the haters.At the time, I doubt even WFB knew something like this was coming from Buchanan. The Audacity Of Winnie
By Ed Driscoll · June 20, 2008 03:15 AM · Ed TV · Muggeridge's Law · The Making of the President · War And Anti-War
Two guesses as to how this video ends: (Back story here; lots more fun with Winnie and friends, here. And many more videos, here.) Related: The original Dukakis in the tank ad from 1988 can be found here--judging by the nuanced headline written by the person who uploaded it, I don't think he was a fan of the ad's message. Now That's A Sister Souljah!
"Obama couldn’t have picked a better way to offend the world’s 325 million Arabs and 1.5 billion Muslims." (Meanwhile, consider the subtle porcine implications of this affiliation...) Calling Saddam's Bluff
By Ed Driscoll · June 14, 2008 05:48 PM · War And Anti-War
England's Observer interviews President Bush in the midst of his European tour: He remained, he said, convinced that Iraq, and the world, was a better place without Saddam Hussein. And he said that while 'Presidents don't get to do re-dos' on issues such as Saddam's lack of weapons of mass destruction, there was one lesson from the run-up to the Iraq war that he felt was hugely relevant to the standoff in Iran.It's not the first time we've called a fascistic madman's bluff, of course. Sure, That's What He Wants You To Think!
By Ed Driscoll · June 14, 2008 01:43 PM · Oh, That Liberal Media! · The Making of the President · The Reich Stuff · War And Anti-War
Speaking of conspiracy junkies, here's one closer to home: Asked what he thinks of McCain, Vidal calls him a “disaster,” then tells Deborah Solomon, “Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?”All merely a part of the master plan by the "fascist government ...which controls the media." (And yet somehow, as the above interview with Deborah Solomon of the New York Times illustrates, it keeps quoting and publishing him without reprisal. Go figure.) What Do You Think You're Looking At, Sugar Beak?
By Ed Driscoll · June 14, 2008 12:42 PM · Hollywood, Interrupted · Muggeridge's Law · The Return of the Primitive · War And Anti-War
Iranian TV explores Hidden Zionist Themes in... wait for it... No really! (I wonder if anybody told Mel Gibson?) It's a bit like watching the Soviets in the mid-1960s complaining how decadent the West had become because they listened to the Beatles and Herman's Hermits. And incidentally, can you say projection, boys and girls? (Via a post at Free Mark Steyn which looks at the insanity of conspiracy theories through the ages; as you may have already seen, we recently made a quick romp through their last fifty years in video form, here.) "No Ordinary War; No Ordinary Hero"
By Ed Driscoll · June 12, 2008 09:49 PM · The Making of the President · The Memory Hole · War And Anti-War
Quick--who wrote this? Even though Vietnam was a divisive war that is not yet resolved in the national consciousness, Mr. McCain can appeal to all sides. He is an inspiration to many veterans and conservatives [...] At the same time, many who opposed the war can nonetheless support the man because of his personal ordeal ... Read More » "The Hazards Of The Digital Age"
By Ed Driscoll · June 12, 2008 08:55 PM · The Memory Hole · The New, New Journalism · War And Anti-War
Yesterday, I wrote, "Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) gets busted by the Internet Immortality Thesis". The Scranton's Times-Tribune agrees: U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski is getting a first-hand lesson in the hazards of the digital age.I don't know--I'd say the congressman was misrepresented pretty accurately, myself. "Congressman Kanjorski Doesn't Apologize To Anyone"
Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) gets busted by the Internet Immortality Thesis: (Via Freedom's Watch; a related look at Kanjorski's efforts to build a bridge to the 1930s, here.) How Does Canada Restart The Clock?
By Ed Driscoll · June 11, 2008 01:28 AM · The Future and its Enemies · The New Puritans · The Newspeak Dictionary · The Return of the Primitive · War And Anti-War
“[Inside the windowless courtroom] there’s no link with the outside world except a clock, which is stuck at 8:00. And that’s government bureaucracy for you. You know, in British Columbia, it claims to be able to eradicate hate, but it can’t get someone in to restart the clock.” --Mark Steyn on The Hugh Hewitt Show, as quoted by Kathy Shaidle, who goes through the looking glass of his Kafkaesque Show Trial at Pajamas Media. Meanwhile, reader Joseph Somsel emails: Seems to me that some of the defendants from the Canadian Human Rights Commission trials could legitimately seek asylum in the US as victims of persecution.I wonder if Canada's chilling of free speech makes it a more or less desirable destination for leftwing Americans? "What Kind Of War Crimes Trials Does Obama Plan?"
By Ed Driscoll · June 10, 2008 10:26 AM · The Making of the President · The Memory Hole · War And Anti-War
At the moment, Obama is pivoting towards the center (which for him is admittedly a long, long drive), and attempting to purge the memories of his rhetoric necessary to woo the far left during the primaries, not to mention the memories of his former associates. Fortunately, the Blogosphere doesn't forget. Elsewhere, Rachel Lucas explores the "Two Minutes Hate: Jew-bashing on the official Obama site." Finally, this conversation isn't helping Michelle's children. Related: "Impeachment: Just Do It". John McCain, POW: A First-Person Account
By Ed Driscoll · June 08, 2008 09:11 AM · The Gulag Archipelago · The Making of the President · The Memory Hole · War And Anti-War
As Charles Johnson writes: If you aren’t familiar with the story of John McCain’s capture and torture by the North Vietnamese, I highly recommend this article at US News, a reprint of McCain’s first-person account originally published in 1973: John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account - US News and World Report.Needless to say, RTWT. Ari Fleischer Looks Back
In the Washington Post, Ari Fleischer responds to the allegations made by former bungling White House press secretary turned Soros-affiliated stereotypical bungling BushCo critic Scott McClellan that the press, as Fleischer writes, "failed to aggressively question the rationale for war. As someone whose duty it was to assume the position of a human piñata every day in the briefing room, I only wish Scott were right" The whole thing is well worth your time, including the conclusion: I hope I don't ruin the careers of tough reporters by agreeing that they were tough, but Charlie Gibson and David Gregory are right. The press did ask the hard questions, repeatedly. Based on the CIA's conclusions, many of the president's and my answers turned out to be wrong, but you can't blame the press for either the CIA's reporting or decisions reached by the president. It's important to recognize that regardless of the outcome of the war in Iraq -- an outcome still being written -- the press didn't cause it to happen or otherwise enable it.Historical revisionism by the left in the post 9/11 period? That's never happened before! Mark Steyn "Dares Human Rights Tribunal To Rule Against Him"
By Ed Driscoll · June 06, 2008 07:01 PM · The Future and its Enemies · The Newspeak Dictionary · The Return of the Primitive · War And Anti-War
The Canadian Press notes, "The man whose controversial writing is at the centre of a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint is daring the tribunal to rule against him": Two members of the Canadian Islamic Congress filed the complaint with the tribunal over an excerpt of Mark Steyn's book published in Maclean's magazine in 2006, saying it was hateful and showed contempt for Muslims.Fellas, your soapbox awaits--write as many words as you like on the topic, as often as you like, whenever you like, and totally free of charge. (Via Steyn Online.) Update: Video added above found via Feet Of Fury. How Would Today's Media Cover D-Day?
Last year, James Lileks produced an MP3 of NBC radio's original coverage of D-Day. It makes for quite a contrast to this look at how today's CNN would cover the events of 64 years ago: And Roger Kimball adds: Here’s the news report, sent to me by a friend some while ago:And while parody news reports are always fun, we know how one new media giant is covering D-Day's 64th anniversary: I've always enjoyed Google logos for commemorating important dates. Today they're commemorating Diego Velazquez's birthday with a cute takeoff on Velazquez's famous painting, Las Meninas.You stay classy, Google. Update: Jennifer Rubin adds: How many Americans know about Tarawa, a true debacle in which the U.S. suffered 3000 casualties, or know the basic facts about the Battle of the Bulge where over 19,000 Americans were killed? Not enough.Instead, there's a new ongoing revisionism that appears to be slowly gathering steam to disgrace those efforts. Rewriting World War II
By Ed Driscoll · June 05, 2008 03:43 PM · War And Anti-War
Beginning with his take on Pat Buchanan's new book, Victor Davis Hanson looks at two recent efforts to poison the legacy of the Allies' response to World War II: Questioning the past is a good thing, but rewriting it contrary to facts is quite another. In the latest round of revisionism about the Second World War, the awful British and naive Americans, not the poor Germans, have ended up as the real culprits.That was the theme of Robert Harris' brilliant Fatherland, which of course was a thinly disguised version of the West's ability to live quite comfortably alongside another Evil Empire for decades, until one man decided to Think Different.TM Update: Charles Johnson is not amused at Pat's new book, and reminds us of a recent example of Buchanan's occasional convergences with the far left, a topic which Jonah Goldberg also discusses near the end of Liberal Fascism. Here are a few earlier examples. "But I Won't Be The Last"
Mark Steyn describes his current travails with Canada's "legal" system, in Macleans: By the way, I see I've been nominated for a National Magazine Award, to be handed out later this month. By then, Mr. Joseph will have succeeded in getting the B.C. troika effectively to ban me from Maclean's and from all Canadian journalism. An impressive achievement. My book was a No. 1 bestseller in Canada, and the new paperback edition was at No. 4 the other day, and President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Governor Mitt Romney, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Jon Kyl and (at last count) six European prime ministers have either recommended the book or called me in to discuss its themes.(H/T 5'F) No Fair--We Demagogued Him First!
By Ed Driscoll · May 30, 2008 10:00 PM · Oh, That Liberal Media! · The Making of the President · War And Anti-War
After demagoguing General Petraeus in their own ads--complete with special bro pricing from the New York Times, "Dems Angry That McCain Uses Petraeus's Image In His Ads, Too." The Long View
Dean Barnett writes, "We went through similar times in the early 1990’s. The Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union crumbled and we won the Cold War. Yet it was beyond the typical liberal’s ability to acknowledge that Ronald Reagan had anything to do with these accomplishments": What bin Laden said about the strong horse and the weak horse was right. And he and his minions don’t look like the strong horse running for their pathetic lives in Waziristan for years on end. The Islamic world has watched as al Qaeda has become the weak horse. President Bush deserves credit for fighting the war with the steadfastness he has. Remember, it was less than four years ago when John Kerry implored us to fight a more sensitive war on terror. Somehow I doubt sensitivity would have had the same impact on the Jihadists as the predator drones that now fill their skies.As the American Thinker wrote a couple of years ago, paraphrasing the slogan of another president whom history has judged far more kindly than the harsh chattering classes of his time, "Give 'em hell, George." "Do We Really Need To Know This Old Stuff?"
By Ed Driscoll · May 30, 2008 11:00 AM · God And Man At Dupont University · The Making of the President · War And Anti-War
Pretty amusing anecdote from The Diplomad, who writes, "Go to ‘Google,’ type in the phrase ‘highly educated voters,’ hit ‘Search News.’ Go ahead. We'll wait . . . OK, what do you get? All sorts of stories about Obama voters, and how he attracts the ‘highly educated.’ You will get the same from the pundits on network and cable news: lots of blather about how Obama appeals to ‘highly educated’ Americans": A few years ago, more than I care to mention, I headed a large office at the State Department. I got tasked with hiring a couple of Presidential Management Interns (PMIs). These PMIs come from the elite of the elite student body at the elite of the elite universities. They get hired on a temporary basis and then, usually, get offered prestigious jobs in the government. I was told, in no uncertain terms, that whatever else I did, I had to hire women. So I began to pore over the resumes. My heart sank. I felt inadequate and so, so inferior to these kids. Their resumes, impeccably printed and organized, using dozens of words ending in "-ization," and listing prowess with a dazzling array of complex software programs, described accomplishments beyond my wildest dreams -- espe |