War

The puritan warriors of New York Times

Friday, July 15th, 2005

New York Times is up in arms over female American soldiers getting down with prisoners to help the cause: There are countless reasons to be outraged about the abuses of detainees at American military prisons. But there is one abuse about which there can surely be no debate, even among the die-hard supporters of President [...]

Is Chuck Turner’s porn making the rounds?

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

Some kind of Muslim Grand Pooba interviewed on Al-Jazeera (as reported by MEMRI): Al-Siba’i: “I, myself… I condemn the occupation, which is the cause of all these tragedies. The occupation caused all these disasters. The country was safe and peaceful, until the Americans came, and we are expected to blame those who fight in defense [...]

The start of a long, low-intensity terror campaign in Britain?

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

I was wrong. The attacks in London were apparently carried out by British Muslims of pakistani origin. I’m mildy surprised, but certainly not shocked. You shouldn’t be either. The domestic European terrorist organizations of the 1970′s and 1980′s that were based on ideology were all crushed by intense counter-terrorism campaigns. The ethnic terrorist organizations, such [...]

London strikes not exactly 9/11

Friday, July 8th, 2005

Talk about deteriorating capability. Our Muslim Arab enemy killed 3,000 people using 19 operatives in 2001, 191 people using seven (if I remember correctly) in 2004, and yesterday in London, some 40 people using another half dozen or so of Allah’s finest. That kind of decline in performance is what one expects from Arab economies, [...]