In This Dimension

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[…]

Obama’s Christmas Bomber

Lots of ink and photons already have been spilled on the Christmas bomber. (But obviously not enough - yet.)

Most, if not all, are wondering why Obama didn’t come off the links a tad earlier, put down the tennis racket a set sooner, or show a bit - just a bit - of concern for his 300-odd fellow Americans who almost had been murdered on his watch.

I continue to find this curiouser and curiouser…

At what point does everyone begin to understand that another 9/11 will allow Obama and Rahm to use that crisis to complete their takeover of America?

Obama doesn’t care[…]

Truman vs. Obama

If Truman Had Taken WWII as Seriously as Obama Takes War on Terror

By Doug Patton

December 7, 2009

Imagine for a moment President Harry Truman addressing cadets at West Point on his strategy for finishing World War II:

Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our efforts against Japan in the Pacific — the nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests, and the strategy that my administration will pursue to bring this war to a successful[…]

Obama, West Point, Compliant Generals… and the Future

(This is a long post, but I think it’s important enough that you read all of it… obviously;  otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it.)

The full consequence of the decision by President Obama to depart Afghanistan on a predetermined date seems not yet to have been understood fully.

This decision has ramifications far beyond Afghanistan, NATO, or the American Left and Right.

With this decision, President Obama is telling a compliant military that, should an unspoken (unwanted?) victory not have been reached by his pre-determined date of withdrawal, any future deaths in-theater – as well as all deaths and injuries to-date – will[…]

Today’s Military…

Here’s a great article on the military today.

Three SEALs found the Islamist terrorist who masterminded the killing, burning and hanging of the bodies of those civilian contractors from some bridge in Iraq a few years back. The SEALs arrested him.

Now the SEALs are going to be court-martialed because the terrorist got a bruised lip.

Yep – same military that allowed Hassan to shoot 31 people, killing 13… until he was gunned-down on an Army base….. by a CIVILIAN. Probably the MPs, in light of the criticality of “diversity” over safety, as their CO later told us,  were looking for their Arabic-English dictionary to open[…]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — on Trial?

So now we are going to put this warmonger on trial. He attacked America with WMD, killing thousands. HE and his terrorists created about 15,000 orphans in an instant.

Everyone - even Democrats - know this was an act of war. Democrats, however, don’t accept our going to war - they’re OK voting for the odd combat mission (which is NOT war; we are not AT war in Afghanistan, for example, we are applying martial law - the differences are huge - but Democrats don’t get that).

As always, Powerline gets to the point with the only salient question:

“Ask yourself this question: suppose that[…]

21st Century Great Powers - Who, Who Not, and Why

As the world’s Great Powers re-orient themselves following the major geopolitical occurrences of the post-Soviet world – the rise of Islamists and the utter and complete failure of America and the West to deal with this rise — it is interesting to watch the strategies of the once-and future Great Powers. What Powers will be willing to take what measures appropriate to the threats they perceive to a world order that benefits themselves? Which Powers will not – and so fade from the stage as no longer important to the functioning of the planet and its peoples?

Who are the Great[…]

Get really nasty or go home NOW

The Financial Times today has a column that at first sounds reasonable, but on reading, presents untenable arguments, ignoring the larger issue of the enormous rise of Islamism globally, and the Western thought that Islamism can be dealt with and assimilated to Western values.

It cannot.

The fight in Afghanistan is not about Afghanistan… it’s about the future of Western Civilization, of liberty, freedom, women’s and children’s rights, environmental rights, freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and the Rule of Law.

Really, Afghanistan is about basically everything we in the West have fought for for centuries.

Are we still willing to fight for our freedoms and liberties?

Or not?

Wars[…]

Our New Post-Allied America

This is well worth the read. Short. To-the-point.

Terrifyingly accurate.

He must be stopped.

Obama Unilateralism on Defense

Remember when the Left hammered Bush43 for unilateralism?

For those who don’t recall, it was before and after they were hammering him for NOT being unilateral on North Korea…

Really, though, is there anything even remotely multilateral in the missile defense blunder our Presitwerp just made in Poland and Czech Republic? Even British newspapers are commenting on what a bad and unilateral decision it was.

Perhaps, like dissent, criticism of any type against a president only is acceptable if it’s a Republican president.

How childish is THAT?

And I guess if your guy acts unilaterally you just ignore the screams of fury you made when the[…]