Archive | September, 2007
David Gelernter: Defeat at Any Price
It’s time for Americans to ask some big questions. Do leading Democrats want America to win this war? Have they ever? Of course not–and not because they are traitors. To leading Democrats such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Al Gore and John Edwards, America would be better off if [...]
Continue reading...Bret Stephens: Osirak II? Israel’s silence on Syria speaks volumes
Published Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 8:56 pm
What’s beyond question is that something big went down on Sept. 6. Israeli sources had been telling me for months that their air force was intensively war-gaming attack scenarios against Syria; I assumed this was in anticipation of a second round of fighting with Hezbollah. On the morning of the raid, Israeli combat brigades in [...]
Continue reading...Jerusalem Post: Dozens died in Syrian-Iranian chemical weapons experiment
Published Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria. According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the [...]
Continue reading...Rush: Snakes & Arrows Live in Montreal
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 12:38 pm
After 5 long months of waiting, Rush’s Snakes & Arrows tour finally arrived in Montreal. Some photos and video, shot with my Canon SD 800 IS:
Continue reading...Fouad Ajami: Iraqis of all sects report progress, not civil war
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:45 am
We were in Baghdad, and the sheikh gave me his narrative. There was both candor and evasion in the story he told. Al Qaeda and its Arab jihadists had found sanctuary and support in the Anbar; they had recruited the “criminal elements” and the “lowly,” they had brought zeal and bigotry unknown to the Iraqis. [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Why It’s So Hard to Win
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:42 am
Is it five or ten or fifteen — years that are necessary to win wars of counterinsurgency such as Iraq? By now, Americans are well acquainted with such warnings that patience — along with political and economic reforms, not just arms — defeats guerrillas. In these messy fights, Western nations can’t, for both practical and [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: Petraeus’s Success
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:40 am
When asked about Shiite militia domination of southern Iraq, Petraeus patiently went through the four provinces, one by one, displaying a degree of knowledge of the local players, terrain, and balance of power that no one in Washington — and few in Iraq — could match. When Biden thought he had a gotcha — contradictions [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Reflections on 9/11, six years later
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:38 am
September 11 was not the first and won’t be the last terrorist assault on our citizens and culture. And the subsequent factionalism and left/right bickering over the proper course to defeat the jihadists — whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, the courts, at the Hague, or the United Nations — did not originate solely after 9/11. But [...]
Continue reading...Icecap: A New Record for Antarctic Total Ice Extent?
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:35 am
While the news focus has been on the lowest ice extent since satellite monitoring began in 1979 for the Arctic, the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979. This can be seen on this graphic from this University of Illinois site The Cryosphere Today, which updated snow [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: Looking for love in all the wrong places
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:34 am
This year I marked the anniversary of Sept. 11 by driving through Massachusetts. It wasn’t exactly planned that way, just the way things panned out. So, heading toward Boston, I tuned to Bay State radio talk-show colossus Howie Carr and heard him reading out portions from the official address to the 9/11 commemoration ceremony by [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 9:57 am
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