Monthly Archives: May 2016

Sara, the cops, Liberman, and Israel’s future

  "Israel, on the other hand, is a tiny ethnic-religious minority in a hostile region on a permanent war footing with its neighbors. Israel believes (wrongly) that it has done everything it can to make peace and been turned down, … Continue reading

Posted in Israel | 40 Comments

Sic Semper Tyrannis

I have asked several people I think suitable to herd the cats here if they want to take over and none have leapt forward with alacrity.   At the same time we get a lot of page views from all over … Continue reading

Posted in Ukraine Crisis | 72 Comments

Not enough troops …

  If you watch the embedded SITREP in this South Front report you will learn that the authors at South Front (I assume we are in one way or another talking about Russians) agree with me that the R+6 coalition … Continue reading

Posted in Current Affairs, Iraq, Middle East, Russia, Syria, The Military Art | 63 Comments

Commenter Policy

STT has recently experienced what I consider to be abuse of our hospitality in comments made by people who after repeated exchanges asking for documentation for comments that attack the US as an evil country that is the curse of … Continue reading

Posted in Ukraine Crisis | 1 Comment

Soldiers. She is ours and we are hers.

"Charles would have been retired by now and probably coaching Jordan on a flag football team. He would have been the one to take care of the back-to-school medical forms that I turned in almost a month late. I know … Continue reading

Posted in Obituary | 11 Comments

The Necessity of the A-Bomb by Richard Sale

We know that President Obama is going to visit Hiroshima, and there are remarks being made that he should apologize for the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My own view is that we have nothing to apologize for. War … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 66 Comments

Borgist media fights back on behalf of unisex public toilets!

"Eight of the other states on the lawsuit are led by Republican governors — Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Utah. The other two have Democratic governors — Louisiana and West Virginia. They're asking a federal judge to … Continue reading

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Media | 120 Comments

E-mail – Waiting for the FBI and DoJ.

"What the new report from the State Department inspector general makes clear is that it also was not a casual oversight. Ms. Clinton had plenty of warnings to use official government communications methods, so as to make sure that her records … Continue reading

Posted in Justice, Politics | 112 Comments

Is R+6 collapsing?

  "The operation of the Syrian government forces in the Aleppo city is facing a real challenge. A critical moment in the activity of the loyalists was the fall of the town of Khan Touman that has been seized by … Continue reading

Posted in Current Affairs, Iran, Middle East, Russia, Syria | 109 Comments

VN – America’s Communist ally of choice?

  "The decision to lift the arms trade ban, which followed intense debate within the Obama administration, suggested such concerns outweighed arguments that Vietnam had not done enough to improve its human rights record and Washington would lose leverage for … Continue reading

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Current Affairs, Vietnam | 74 Comments