RSS- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
- Britain? Kaput! By Walrus.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Send me a message.
If you have some time on your hands, please go through my scribblings and utterances here or elsewhere and tell me what are the worst things I have said or written about GW Bush or even that wretch Cheney. I … Continue reading
Posted in Ukraine Crisis
23 Comments
Preston Brooks, Joe Wilson and the Palmetto State
Mr. Wilson of South Carolina is representative of a long line of hotheads from that place. Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death with a cane on the floor of the US Senate while a friend held other … Continue reading
Posted in government, Politics
79 Comments
Obama’s “socialist” school speech. – the text
"Arlington, VirginiaSeptember 8, 2009 The President: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I’m glad you all could … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
33 Comments
General Krulak’s Letter to George Will
Someone was kind enought to send me this. I don't know General Krulak so I can't absolutely vouch for its authenticity. pl Download Krulak_letter2 Download Krulak_letter2 The second copy is a .pdf file. The first is .rtf.
Posted in Afghanistan
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“What Torture Never Told Us ” Ali Soufan
"Supporters of the enhanced interrogation techniques have jumped from claim to claim about their usefulness. They have asserted, for example, that harsh treatment led Mr. Mohammed to reveal the plot to attack the Library Tower in Los Angeles. But that … Continue reading
Posted in government
21 Comments
Open thread today
Does anyone know of a good unclassified paper on the various "Taliban" groups? pl
Posted in Open Thread
31 Comments
USAID is funding the Taliban – sort of…
"It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country. Virtually every major … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan
30 Comments
The International terrorists are America’s enemies, not the local rebels…
"…the problem with the critics' argument is that, while the strategy they oppose has yet to be tried, the alternatives they suggest already have been — and they led to failure in both Afghanistan and Iraq. For years, U.S. commanders … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan
54 Comments
The Broken “Hinge” in McChrystal’s Paper
"…it represents a hard look at the challenges involved in implementing Obama's strategy for Afghanistan. The administration has narrowly defined its goal as defeating al-Qaeda and other extremist groups and denying them sanctuary, but that in turn requires a sweeping … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan
33 Comments