Apparently, the Nature of Strategic Military Planning Eludes the Left

From the London Times, this morning:

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director

The player that we’ve heard from the least in the Middle East of late, is Syria.  So, I was interested when a BitsBlog reader forwarded a report from Reuters:

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria is facing a violent campaign by Islamist

Cliff Thier, American Thinker,  outlines the ultimate Rudy Guiliani general election spot.

Narrator: In 1999 Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s wife, said, “Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli

The Palestinian Authority’s security organizations are unable to assume security control of cities in the West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad told senior Israeli officials during recent meetings. Fayad told Israeli officials that the PA’s security forces are unable

Mrs. Clinton hinted that she would resume her husband’s failed practice of using million dollar missiles to blow up tents:

But she did not rule out U.S. attacks inside Pakistan, citing the missile attacks her husband, then-President Bill Clinton, ordered

Boortz this morning:

Western intelligence is confirming it … the mullahs of Iran are, indeed, linked to al Queda. Iran is being used as a base for terrorists. These terrorists then go into Iraq and kill Iraqis and Americans,

Christopher Hitchens has a number of religious phobias surrounding him. His latest book would seem to indicate that point, amply.  They seem to me unreasoning phobias.  For all that he has the symptoms of the Islamo-Facist movement cataloged fairly well,

More news from FOJ, Friends of Jimmy:

The military wing of Hamas today released an audio message from Corporal Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier it kidnapped after a cross-border raid a year ago, in which he claimed he was

An interesting situation, up to the other day, which went mostly unnoticed by the press. Herein,Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, slips up, and admits that the “Palestinians” came to the region when the arabs invaded, and are not an aboriginal

One of the best indications that your foreign policy is on track, is when Jimmy Carter complains loudly about it.  Such is the case, with his latest tirade:

The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy

Bill Gertz is reporting:

New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.
U.S. government appeals to China to check some of the

The National Rifle Association has some 4.3 million dues paying members, for which it is referred to by the main stream media as the “gun lobby.”

In stark contrast, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has about 1,700 dues

The Quote of the Day, and from the be careful for what you wish department, comes from Hassan al-Bazam, 20, resident of the Gaza Strip,  in reference to his Fatah kidnappers:

“These people are real murderers, […] Even the Jews

The same media which ran over six thousand stories on over heated and over dramatized allegations of torture at Abu Ghraib has been silent in face of real torture by al Qaeida.

From the Media Research Center:

To their

James, over at OTB writes today about an article posted by worldpublicopinion.org :

(Link fixed, sorry James…-Ed) 

Worldpublicopinion.org a project of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, has recently published an public opinion poll on