In This Dimension

Obama Halts Prosecution of Planner of USS Cole Bombing

You can’t make this stuff up….

The Washington Post, no less, is reporting this.

I guess Obama gets to do this if he wants to… but the DoD and ALL SERVING MILITARY PERSONNEL ought to take a new look at their CINC and his halting the judicial prosecution of a man who planned the attack that killed 17 and wounded 39 serving US Navy personnel.

Now if you recall, the Left insists that we treat terrorism as a criminal, rather than a military, issue…. and now we refuse to prosecute those the Left insists are criminals?

Am I on Candid Camera?

The military inculcates a[…]

How about a sane approach to the Mosque?

America, and the West in general (in fact, it’s part of the foundation of the West) is extraordinarily tolerant of religious practices. Our Liberal wings all believe in the relative equality of cultures and equal outcomes.

So - how about this:

Saudi Arabia is the home of Islam - Mecca, Medina and all that. The Muslim world views NYC as the financial and power center of the West. The Muslim wanting to build the mosque says he is doing so with the goal of religious outreach and interfaith understanding.

So… in keeping with that concept: We build a large Christian church in Mecca[…]

The Wisdom of “Star Trek” — Life Imitating Art?

The 1960’s TV series “Star Trek” might be classified as “art” by some, so I’m going to go with it to make a serious point.

Here is the plot summary for a 1967 Star Trek episode titled: “A Taste of Armageddon”:

On a mission to establish diplomatic relations, Kirk and Spock beam down to the planet to learn that its inhabitants have been at war with a neighboring planet for over 500 years. They can find no damage however and no evidence of destruction. They soon learn that the war is essentially a war game where each planet attacks the other in a[…]

Brett Stephens: Containment cannot work with Iran

Brett Stephens, a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and the author of the paper’s Global View, a weekly column, has published in Commentary a very important article regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran and the feasibility of a policy of containment should they achieve the status of a nuclear power. He doubts the ability of Iran to be contained, and of the West to persevere through that containment even if Iran chose to allow itself to be contained. You should read it.

In response to his column, the below post. It is long.

Mr. Stephens’ article is an excellent - and necessary article.[…]

Who is Protecting America and our Allies?

So here’s a question for you.

The primary Constitutional duty of our military is to defend the Constitution - and the nation. In a sane world, America’s military is allowed to do this through deterrence. Deterrence, of course, works with sane opponents, not insane ones.

What is a working definition of “insane” on the current world stage? Any nation whose residents strap bombs on themselves or their subjects or their children in the name of some absolutely barbaric Middle-Age totalitarian, despotic “religion,” is a working definition of geopolitical insanity.

Given that America has for nearly 200 years told nations of the Eastern Hemisphere[…]

“Peace Process”

I’ve blogged before about the silliness of the Middle- East “Peace Process,” why it’ll never work and why Israel just needs to take-off the shackles and have at it.

Another WSJ column, “Peace Processes Never Work,” prompts this:

Peace happens when the policies of Side A become malign enough to the continued success and peace of Side B that Side B chooses to spend the money and lives to erase Side A.

Non-erasure of Side A always results in higher cost and future wars than had Side B erased Side A to begin with. This is why WW1 resulted in WW2, and WW2[…]

Islamists Threat South Park Creators with Death for Free Speech

So Radical Muslims now are threatening the creators of South Park with death for writing a send-up of Muslim terrorists about how it is impossible to show Mohammad on TV.  This logically follows the global riots and killing over a CARTOON. At least the cartoon was of Mohammad… The South Park episodes are about not being ABLE to show Mohammad…

(Pop Quiz: If the creators of South Park are killed, will Liberals blame them for their own (probably gruesome) deaths? Extra Credit: If the creators of South Park agree to have their free speech stifled, will Democrats, once the party of Free[…]

The “Peace Process”

The problem with the way in which peace has been sought in the Middle East since 1948 is that all attempts have been based on not losing, or on appeasement. One would think that Neville Chamberlain proved for all time that appeasement never works with a determined foe. One would be mistaken.

No attempts have been based on history, on winning, on doing what is right, or on what’s best not only for the people of the region, but the people of the world.

Let’s begin with the latter: What would be best for the people of the region and the world?

Easy answer: Peaceful[…]

Our International Embarrassment: Obama

So much for the guy who was going to “repair” our foreign relationship. What an infantile embarrassment we have put in our White House.

From Powerline:

Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu visited the White House. The details of the meeting have been slow to come out, but we are now learning what transpired. The Telegraph reports that Obama opened the meeting by presenting a list of 13 demands to Netanyahu. One was a complete freeze on Jewish building in eastern Jerusalem.

When Netanyahu did not immediately agree to the demands, Obama went to eat dinner. In one account he told Netanyahu to consider[…]

USA v. Iran - A Different Idea?

This is an extremely interesting column by George Friedman, the CEO of StratFor, a global civilian intelligence organization.

Accepting that the two most-talked about ideas (striking Iran, cutting-off their gasoline supply) won’t work for some very realistic and factual reasons, he posits what seems to be a new - and quite intriguing idea, the possible repercussions of which could be very good.

Read it and consider….

Although he lacks faith in Obama to pursue this, and though Obama may be too low in political capital even to try something this counterintuitive, I wonder….  Obama may be intelligent and even cunning, after all….

Perhaps by following[…]