Back to Basics

1. War is not an intelectual excersize.
2. There are no rules in war, other than the rules dicated by the winner, afterward.
3. The Geneva Convention which proports to be civilized warfare, is in fact nothing of the sort, and is not worth the paper it was written on, having repeatedly been broken in every war ever waged since it’s signing.  There’s a reason, here; Warfare is not civil under any conditions. War is, instead, the utter lack of civility. It is therefore unrealistic to assume or demand any degree of civility in wartime.
4. Those seeking closer adherence to the Geneva Convention during wartime, even on moralistic ground, particualrly when the enemy is overtly not adhereing to said convention, are themselves immoral, given they end up costing their own side lives, by causing their own military to, in effect, fight with one hand tied behind their back.
5. When a people go to war, it is by definition a last resort against an immoral enemy. It’s understood that war of itself is an immoral act. In going to war the line of immorality has already been crossed…  but it is also understood that the greater immorality is to allow the enemy to continue it’s immoral activity. It is assumed, thereby, that whatever actions are taken in pursuit of winning said war against said immoral enemy, are in the immediate sense, of lesser moral consequence than the defeat of the enemy, and the actions of the enemy, both before and during said war.
6. Hindsight is a luxury a nation at war cannot afford. For example, consider the post 9/11 world, and the discussions about ‘How far would you go to stop another 9/11?” We succeeded in stopping any more such attacks on us, and we continue to hold them back. Being concerned now with the ‘rights’ of those attacking us is at least counter-productive, and self-defeating.
7. One does not win a war by respecting the rights, the beliefs, or the demands, of the enemy. One wins a war by killing the enemy in as great a number as possible, and barring that, by breaking their will to fight.

Hobbs is all over a story breaking in Tennesee about legislative corruption. So far, 5 legislators have been arrested… and all but one, unsuprisingly, is a Democrat, and the remaining one is labeled by locals as a RINO.

Keep watching the link above. I’m sure Bill’s gonna be all over this.

Ace of Spades HQ has an interesting thread going on the subject of a book being pushed to teens.

Read all the links off Ace’s post to get the idea of what’s what… paricularly Michelle’s comments.

RITE TURN ONLY has a source for used submarines you might be interested in, or not.

Apparently, even the Canadians think they’re too old to even set them up as a museum. Which given the deteriorated state of their fleet, oughta tell you we’re dealing, sadly, with scrap, and naught more.

Ann Coulter:

“But as regular viewers of PBS know, in fact, we invaded Iraq for oil.
Yes, precisely. That’s why U.S. forces seized Iraq’s oil fields right after Baghdad fell, confiscated their vast oil reserves, and now we can buy all the gasoline we want here at home for just pennies a gallon any time we want. Sorry, we what? Folks, my switchboard is completely lit up and this isn’t even a radio show. ”

Great stuff.
RTWT

FOXNews has the details.

Going to be hard for the Democrats to claim ANYONE is ‘extreme” after screaming for four years Owen is extreme, and then posting her, anyway.

You Big Mouth, You! has up some pics, and some links describing the President’s visit here yesterday.

Sheesh, Chuck, you shoulda told me you were just across the street.
I’d have bought lunch.

World Of Longmire does a pretty fair job of cracking me up today. You know those cheap romance novels. Harold Robbins on airplane glue.

Check these re-touchups out… they’re a hoot.

Families are leaving SanFran in droves. Gee… After years of anti-Family, anti- capitalism, pro-socialism pro-homosexual moves by the government there, this is a really big shock, huh? AP has the details.

Interesting notes from Joe at Winds of Change. Joe cites German blogger Ulrich Speck:

Whoever has read Götz Aly’s new book – Hitlers Volksstaat. Raub, Rassekrieg und nationaler Sozialismus [Hitler’s “Volk”-State: Plunder, Racial War and National Socialism] – can no longer claim that National Socialism was a “right-wing” project. Aly cites Eichmann: “My political sympathies were on the Left, with the ‘socialist’ being at least as important as the ‘nationalist’.”

Actually, they can still make the claim. Since when has the left been driven by the truth, driven by the facts?

Still, a point well made.

Interesting notes from Joe at Winds of Change. Joe cites German blogger Ulrich Speck:

Whoever has read Götz Aly’s new book – Hitlers Volksstaat. Raub, Rassekrieg und nationaler Sozialismus [Hitler’s “Volk”-State: Plunder, Racial War and National Socialism] – can no longer claim that National Socialism was a “right-wing” project. Aly cites Eichmann: “My political sympathies were on the Left, with the ‘socialist’ being at least as important as the ‘nationalist’.”

Actually, they can still make the claim. Since when has the left been driven by the truth, driven by the facts?

Still, a point well made.

Interesting notes from Joe at Winds of Change. Joe cites German blogger Ulrich Speck:

Whoever has read Götz Aly’s new book – Hitlers Volksstaat. Raub, Rassekrieg und nationaler Sozialismus [Hitler’s “Volk”-State: Plunder, Racial War and National Socialism] – can no longer claim that National Socialism was a “right-wing” project. Aly cites Eichmann: “My political sympathies were on the Left, with the ‘socialist’ being at least as important as the ‘nationalist’.”

Actually, they can still make the claim. Since when has the left been driven by the truth, driven by the facts?

Still, a point well made.

Political Correctness Watch reports:

Darnell Colquitt thought the TV reporters didn’t belong in the Tillicum ‘hood and told them so. People tote heat around here, he warned. He started to pedal away on a bicycle, then stopped, turned, and told the reporters what would happen if they were still there when he came back. “You’re dead where you stand,” he said.

That, and a hail of racial slurs, earned him a trip to jail Thursday, along with a rare charge from Pierce County prosecutors: a black-on-white hate crime.

You’ll never see this on the national news… despite the fact they’ve got tape of the event on file at KIRO, which was apparently enough to jail the idiot.

You will recall I raised the question about who dropped that “Flushed Koran” story on NewsWeak.

WorldNetDaily thinks it was a Ticked Off CIA paper pusher.

Boortz today has an update on that Cessna Pilot who wandered into protected airspace in DC causing that evacuation.

We learn today that the Homeland Security people were about 15 seconds away from shooting this pilot down.  Fifteen seconds from death.  All his fault, right?

Well … for those of you who weren’t listening to the Boortz Information Overload hour yesterday … we heard something rather interesting from Jamie Dupree.  Those two frequencies that the Blackhawk crewmembers gave to the Cessna pilot?  There was nobody monitoring those frequencies.  Nobody to hear the Cessna call … nobody to respond.

If this one’s true… (and it should be noted that the source has been reliable in the past)… then some heads need to roll… publicly.

Granted, this pilot’s a screwup from the word “go”… and pulling his ticket was more than justified… but its starting to sound like there’s some other problems to be addressed here, too.

Think about this; A civilian plane was almost shot down, and several federal buildings were evac’d because nobody was even on the radio channels that the pilot was instrcted to go to… Including, interestingly, the interceptor planes who would be charged with the task of shooting down the pilot in 10 or 15 seconds.

More as I find… but I gotta tell ya… this one stinks.