Category Archives: Terror

The Buck Stops Here? What Buck?

First Barack Obama wanted to be seen as an incarnation of Abraham Lincoln and FDR rolled into one. Now he is channeling Harry Truman, having lifted one of Truman’s most notable lines in his latest speech on the botched Christmas Day terrorist attack, proclaiming that “the buck stops here.” Presumably, the comment was supposed to [...]

Why wasn’t Hassan discouched?

Mark Steyn points out that Major Nidal Hassan repeatedly urged his army superiors to start criminal investigations of his patients based on supposed facts he teased out in confidential psychiatric sessions. His superiors ho-hummed and haw-hemmed even though he signed his emails “Praise be to Allah” which sounds like an odd way to end a [...]

Grey Gal Gushing

NYT goes gaga for KSM.

Is Europe Falling Out of Love with Obama?

An editorial in Der Spiegel by Claus Christian Malzahn suggests that American conservatives are not the only ones growing increasingly restive over the duffer-in-chief’s continued diddling over Afghanistan. Evidently his “friends” across the Atlantic have also begun tapping their fingers nervously and gazing uncomfortably at their watches. “The world,” Malzahn writes, “has been waiting for [...]

Don’t let events disturb your dithering

Terrible day. And Iraq, very bad indeed. Obama: “hateful.”

What Happened to the “War of Necessity”?

“Our bill calls for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan.” So said Nancy Pelosi on March 8 of 2007. Soon after, both houses of Congress passed a bill for ending the war in Iraq, arguing that [...]

Reacting to the reactions to the reactions to 9/11 remembrances…

Barbara, Howard, Bruce – I’ve been struggling to put into words my reaction to the 9/11 anniversary, to others‘ reactions to it, to the reactions to the reactions, and so on.  Though I don’t want to be associated with the “it’s past time to move on” crowd or with a President whose response struck some [...]

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