Our Kiwi Kommenter wrote, at 2340 on Sunday, 20 March 2011: My prediction is that we’re going to see yet another cycle of mission creep, with Dana and co supporting escalating force every step of the way, provided they can square it with their loathing for the ni-usurper in the White House. It’s March. I [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Foreign Policy category.
From one tyranny to another?
Make no mistake: I think that it’s a good thing that Muammar el-Qaddafi is now sharing the Dictator’s Suite in Hell with Saddam Hussein. But if you think that the Libyan revolution is going to lead to anything resembling a liberal democracy, you might just get your feelings hurt on that one: Revolution Won, Top [...]
Pull-Out of Troops From Iraq
This is a totally confusing situation that on its face looks ill conceived. Now before the Lefties go all bonkers and say it was Bush who negotiated this, I KNOW that. But that was three years ago and the world has changed. Iran either has, or is close to nukes now, not then. Egypt was [...]
Stupidity
From The New York Times: U.S. and U.N. Demand Details From Libyan Leaders on How Qaddafi Died By KAREEM FAHIM and RICK GLADSTONE Published: October 21, 2011 MISURATA, Libya — International calls mounted Friday for Libya’s interim leaders to provide a fuller accounting of the final moments before Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s violent, messy death, as [...]
Reports: Muammar al-Qaddafi captured/ Updated: he’s with Saddam Hussein in Hell
Gadhafi is captured, Libya official claims Unconfirmed reports say ousted dictator has died from his wounds NBC, msnbc.com and news services updated 14 minutes ago SIRTE, Libya — Ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been captured after the apparent fall of his hometown of Sirte, according to reports out of Libya. National Transitional Council official Abdel [...]
The price was too high
There it was, on the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the story about the return of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit: Anger, joy in prisoner swap By Ethan Bronner, New York Times News Service JERUSALEM — Just off the bus in Gaza after six years in an Israeli prison, one of hundreds traded to Hamas [...]
What was she thinking?
Michele Bachmann fouls up: Bachmann blames Arab Spring on Obama’s ‘weakness’ GOP candidate criticizes president’s Israel policy, says message not ‘lost on Israel’s 26 hostile neighbors’ CONCORD, N.C. — Rep. Michele Bachmann blamed President Barack Obama’s stand on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks for the uprisings against autocratic governments across the Arab world. At a fundraiser Thursday [...]