Category Archives: Afghanistan
Quran Burning
The president has apologized for abusing religious freedom… in Afghanistan. The groveling only seems to beget more violence. Maybe that’s why he doesn’t back down when it comes to Catholics.
Islamic fanatics used the Danish Cartoon Crisis as a means of intimidation. They’re at it again with the Quran Crisis.
Whiz Kids
Four marines were photographed taking a leak on dead Taliban. Hillary finds it deplorable. Apparently, however, this will not dampen our efforts to give more money to Afghanistan.
Winning is for Losers
“These long wars will come to a responsible end”, so says the president. Winning is out. Responsible ending is in. Other than in politics and pro sports (NCAA included), winning has become less than cool.
Like drinking responsibly, it’s hard to argue with ending responsibly. It just doesn’t sound like much fun. But it has to be done, in order to win in Nov 2012.
War Games
I didn’t watch Obama’s speech about “recovering the surge” in Afghanistan. But I hear he wants to ditch the war so he can move on to “nation building” in the homeland.
The war and the economy are dragging the president down in the polls. Yesterday he tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to supplement the oil we get from from the drilling jobs we paid for in Brazil.
I think I like the war more than I used to.
Obama Enigma
Osama Bin Laden sleeps with the fishes.
Under President Obama’s orders to go mano a mano, Navy Seals shot and killed the Evil One in cold blood. His Miranda rights were not read and he won’t be tried in a civilian court. His corpse was thrown on a helicopter and flown to a ship in the Arabian Sea where it was dumped overboard. All well and good.
But hard to square with a president who wanted Gitmo closed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in Manhattan, and considered prosecuting CIA interrogators to show the superiority of American justice. On the other hand, Obama has blown over 1500 terror suspects to smithereens.
In a display of respect, bin Laden’s body was washed and prepared for burial according to Islamic custom. His demise will not be verified by photos because “that’s not who we are… we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies”.
That won’t wash with the Muslim world.
