In This Dimension

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[…]

Hillary Begins her 2012 Run

Here’s an interesting article on the non-participation of our Secretary of State as Obama threw our eastern European allies under the bus. It’s an interesting view, from a European, on Hillary’s being nowhere to be found in the largest Foreign Policy blunder of this new presidency she serves.

Question: Is this a move by Hillary to begin to distance herself from Obama for a 2012 run?

Obviously, by anyone’s estimation (other than the children at MoveOn and CodePink), the 2012 campaign will hinge on national security issues.

By 2012, Israel either will have been attacked by, or will itself have attacked, Iran - or[…]

The Taliban, Pakistan, SWAT and America

A columnist in today’s WSJ writes of the problems and way forward for Pakistan, the SWAT area of which is arguably the penultimate theater in any war on terror that is serious, Saudi Arabia being the logical ultimate theater.

Any war on terror that is serious in the way WW2 was serious - a fight to the death against tyrannical threats to liberty and freedom, which very much is what Islamism vs The West really is - that does not BEGIN with the immediate destruction of Saudi Arabia and its funding of global Islamist terror is not serious.

And, of course, having[…]

Silly Afghanistan Constitutional Discussion

Recently the WSJ published an OpEd about Afghan governance entitled, “The Surge Afghanistan Needs.” The columnist, Ann Marlowe, yammers on and on about strengthening governance and problems with their “disastrous 2004″  Constitution.

This entire constitutional argument is silly, ignorant and naive. 

Our soldiers died - and are dying - to free these people. Our money paid for it. Our constitution is the best in the history of the known universe, our people the most free and equal. There is zero reason these people ought to have been allowed to create their own constitution and governance policies just as they emerged - are[…]

The Religion of Peace in Mumbai

From the WSJ

India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV, GEETA ANAND, PETER WONACOTT and MATTHEW ROSENBERG

MUMBAI — As waiters started setting dinner buffets in Mumbai’s luxurious hotels, the killings that would ravage this Indian metropolis began out of sight, in the muddy waters of the Arabian Sea.

In the dusk hours of Wednesday, fisherman Chandrakant Tare was sailing his boat about 100 yards from a fishing trawler when he spotted young men killing a sailor on board. He says he saw them toss the body into the engine room. Assuming he had stumbled upon pirates, Mr. Tare says,[…]