http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/so-much-for-the-un-charade-in-syria/ If there’s one favor Russia and China have done for us all lately, it’s been to reduce the United Nations to glaring irrelevance in the Syria conflict. Due to these two, there has been no Security Council resolution proposing to deal with Syria, and it looks like there won’t be. Repeated emergency meetings and […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ FOR IT AND AGAINST IT Ten years ago, James Clapper, now the Director of National Intelligence, said he was “unquestionably sure” that Saddam’s WMDs had been moved out of Iraq. Top Iraqi generals stated that the WMDs had gone to Syria. But all that fell on deaf ears. John Kerry’s senate career began with […]
“The question remains: What kind of government punishes men who step up to fight in the hellholes of the world where our leaders believe, at least until they don’t, that they see America’s “vital interests”? In the blink of a president’s eye, armies are redirected, men are redeployed, but our prisoners of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars remain behind bars. In the blink of an eye, these soldiers made the life-or-death determination that may have saved their lives, but also lost them their liberty.”
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Does any American believe that Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance (above), 28, should remain in a military prison for the next 20 years for “murder” after giving a legitimate order to his soldiers to fire at three Afghan men on motorcycles, killing two in the process?
What circumstances in those few seconds of on-the-ground command decision-making – during Lorance’s second patrol in Afghanistan – could possibly compel the Army to rob Lorance of his freedom until he is 48 years old?
I have been reading up on Lorance’s case, and I find none. I am not a military prosecutor (thank goodness), but I see nothing in accounts of the incident to warrant a sentence of two decades – unless, that is, Lorance’s lawyer, retired Lt. Col. Guy Womack, is correct. Following Lorance’s sentencing at Ft. Bragg, N.C., on Aug. 1, Womack said: “The Army is using him as a scapegoat so they can tell the Afghan government the person who killed the civilians is being punished.”
Read it and weep – and get sick.
Then, I hope, get angry – and let your congressman know it.
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http://www.east-asia-intel.com/eai/2013/08_28/2.asp North Korea’s failed attempt to export gas masks and weapons to Syria presumably for use in the Middle East nation’s chemical weapons program highlights ongoing close military ties between the two nations despite U.N. sanctions. Pyongyang tried to export gas masks and other weapons to Syria, but the shipment was intercepted by Turkey, according […]
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/world-commentary/origin-no-bar-to-israel-lifesavers/story-e6frg6ux-1226707863731http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/world-commentary/origin-no-bar-to-israel-lifesavers/story-e6frg6ux-1226707863731 AS the world’s capitals and leaders discuss how to respond to last week’s chemical weapons attack in Damascus — the most repugnant in a series of atrocities committed in the war in Syria — it can be easy to lose sight of the daily human toll this conflict is exacting. Though Damascus is only […]
http://today.law.utah.edu/projects/by-any-means-necessary-terrorism-and-insurgency-under-the-law/ Recently, following a previous history of Palestinian terrorist releases premised on furthering the “Middle East Peace Process,” Israel began the latest round of freeing designated criminals from its jails. Not only was this first-phase release (which included convicted murderers) unlikely to assist in achieving a lasting peace, it could even be argued to have […]
Many historians and commentators will argue and debate about the role of Fanni Kaplan’s attempt to assassinate Lenin on august 30,2013. None, however, dispute the fact that on September 2, 1918 the “Red Terror” – a campaign of mass killings, torture, and systematic oppression was launched by the Bolsheviks against all dissidents.
Grigori Zinoviev, a Lenin acolyte put it quite plainly in September: (Zinoviev himself was executed after a forced confession in the show trials in 1936.)
“To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia’s population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.”
Although the numbers vary more than fifty thousand people were executed by hangings and firing squads. Others were imprisoned and tortured.
The best account of this era is by Robert Conquest:
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The niggling question for me remains why in spite of all the known evidence of the evil ideology and methods, leftists and radicals in America flocked to the party or to organizations such as SDS and other useful idiocy on behalf of Communism. I really don’t care if they recanted. Their sins directly affected all of the culture and media and education that prevail today. Their cohorts are the so-called journalists and professors that continue to infect America. rsk
http://standpointmag.co.uk/features-online-only-nahla-mahmoud-anne-marie-walters-the-price-paid-for-criticising-islam-fourthought Imagine it: A woman, who happens to be a Muslim, goes to the police to complain that she has received threatening messages on Facebook (including pictures which clearly identify her) and these threats are based on the fact that she is a Muslim — she’s being threatened because she is a Muslim. Now imagine that […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/davidhornik/israel-lone-light-in-a-dark-region/print/ As the Obama administration keeps weighing whether and how to act in Syria, one wonders if Israel is looking good—or at least better—to the administration these days. Seemingly, if there was ever a time, now would be the time to start taking note of Israel’s strengths in a bad region. 1. Some ways in […]
