davidl on April 15th, 2009

Mrs. Cinton wants to reach out to the moderate Taliban, Asssociated Press:

KABUL – Taliban gunmen executed a young couple in southern Afghanistan for trying to elope, shooting them with rifles in front of a crowd in a lawless,

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davidl on April 3rd, 2009

Mrs. Willliam ClintonAnd some think Mrs. Clinton is smart.   Mrs. Cinton wants to reach out to the moderate Taleban.   I say there are no moderate Taleban, except in Mrs. Clinton’s fervid imagination:

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State

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Barack "BO" Obama (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License)Having  successfully spent the last six months talking down the economy, President Barack Obama now wants to do the same thing to Afghanistan, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was

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davidl on February 14th, 2009

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“So I was surprised to hear that statement. Perhaps it’s because the administration has not yet put itself together. Perhaps they have not been given the information yet. And I hope as they settle down, as they learn more, we

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Eric Florack on July 24th, 2008

 Thomas Barnett notes:

Spray one apartment and the bugs move over to the next. Wherever there’s the least resistance or the most opportunity, you find them clustered.

The Anbar awakening ruins al Qaeda’s long-term chances in Iraq, and so the

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2008

Here is where the Democrats are today, as noted at OTB’s comments section last night. Two different people, both leftists, both speaking about Iraq and the liberation of it’s people: First one:

Certainly when you look at the cost/benefit equation,

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davidl on July 16th, 2008

Omar Khadr is a guest of the US taxpayer at Club Gitmo.   HIs lawyers have released a tape of Khadr crying, “Ya Umi”  which is “Oh Mommy” in Arabic.  Khadr’d lawyers hope to use the tape to win sympathy for

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Eric Florack on July 15th, 2008

James at OTB:

Michael Yon says that we’ve won the war in Iraq and all that remains is clean-up.

I tell James:

Do not be fooled. There are a number of people who have been leaning toward this false hope

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Eric Florack on May 20th, 2008

Yesterday, I pointed out that there was a major shift in Democrat talking points over Iran and it’s threat to the west.

Today, I note something else… that perhaps even the Democrats have not noted.

For years, now, we’ve been

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davidl on May 16th, 2008

Plembo, Daily Kos:

William Borah (1865-1940)The President’s quotation came from the last year of Borah’s life, a time when the 75 year William Edgar Borah old former Republican Presidential candidate had become increasingly erratic in his public statements on the

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Eric Florack on February 23rd, 2008

McQ makes an excellent point about the Democrat debate the other night, and a line that Obama offered up:

In last night’s debate, Barack Obama, apparently wanting to get in the swing of sounding like the Commander-in-Chief, threw this little

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davidl on January 21st, 2008

Will Bill Clinton ever get to be a real boy?One thing me and Bit have not hestitated to do is to call the Clintons, B.J. and Mrs., liars.   Well it now appears that Barack Obama is about to rip a page out the Bitsblog play book, Carrie Budoff Brown,

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 1991
I've noted with some degree of wry humor, all the glowing reports (pun
intended) about the good that radar can do.  Clive Dawson, for example:

<>What about other uses for unattended radar?  I know of several residential
neighborhoods that use 

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