Nightly Ramble: Of Rope, Snow, And Skin

So, where’s the betting pool for exactly when Saddam Hussein gets to wear his new necktie?

And before you anti-death penalty nut cases start getting ramped up, (Yes, that’s what I said….) as far as I’m concerned Saddam Hussein disproves

Ok, Baghdad is a Hell hole, but Baghdad is not Iraq.  In the New York Post, Amir Taheri, writes about, “The Boom Outside Baghdad:”

WHILE the American political elite is using Iraq as an ex cuse for

I’d like to say this is unbelievable, but the problem is that it’s quite believable… and exactly as expected.

WASHINGTON —London Times- He is expected to have an acute understanding of terrorist groups and their threats to American interests. But

(Fox) Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to offer a blistering criticism of the Bush administration’s foreign policy in a farewell speech Monday to a crowd in Independence, Mo.

A copy of the speech originally obtained by USA Today and

Michelle Malkin, this morning, passes along some information regarding that supposedly “lone wolf” would-be bomber in Chicago:

I just got back from a trip to the mall to see the headlines about the alleged Chicago terrorist mall plot:

ABC

Ace has some thoughts on the recent noise over Iraq… Specifically, as regards the Iraq surrender group:

It’s artificial.

By this I mean there was no seismic change in the circumstance in Iraq. Incrementally most say it has gotten worse,

An interesting note from Jason Papas, over at Liberty and Culture:

The great Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher, Marcus Tullius Cicero is a father of the theory of “just war;” but Cicero’s version differs substantially from Augustine, Aquinas, and

Hume:

A longtime adviser to Jimmy Carter has resigned his position as a Carter Center fellow over the former president’s new book. Emory University professor Kenneth Stein wrote in a letter to Mr. Carter that the title of the book

You’ll recall when I left the last evening my wife was still having problems with a loss of her mother’s canary. She had been saying for years that when those birds went she didn’t want any more.  But, LO and

McQ this morning makes a point that I’ve heard before and dismissed… and I’m about to dismiss it again. He makes his point by attempting to draw a parallel between the red scare of the nineteen fifties and what he

Power Line notes this morning:

Even with all of the recent talk about foreign policy “realism,” one of the major tenets of leading realists (George F. Kennan and Hans Morgenthau come to mind) has gone largely ignored. Most realists subscribe

So, now we see the results of the Iraq study commission:

WASHINGTON —AP– A leader of a bipartisan commission on U.S. options in Iraq said the group has agreed on a set of recommendations due next week, and published reports

Hoystory looks at this bit with NBC unilaterally deciding Iraq is in a Civil war, and asks a question I don’t think I’ve seen elsewhere:

The closest comparison to Iraq that I can think of — and it was less

David Ignatius at the Wapo looks at the recent assassination of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, and says:

A disease is eating away at the Middle East. It afflicts the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, even the Israelis. It is

Look, I don’t know anyone who would be taking Maureen Dowd very seriously anymore.  That point aside, her writing of the other day, shows is clearly that the left really didn’t have anything in terms of a plan for Iraq.