Buttle's World

19 July, 2006

And now for something completely different

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 14:43

The Register is on the discovery, in China, of a very strange military base.

If you happen to live on the Chinese/Indian border, you may choose now as the time to be concerned. About what, nobody can tell you.

Daniel Pipes Up

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 14:01

I’m sorry. That’s an inexcusable pun. I just couldn’t resist. But his article seriously remonstrates Israel for their Unnecessary War.

To undo this damage of thirteen years requires Israel returning to the slow, hard, expensive, frustrating, and boring work of deterrence. That means renouncing the foolish plans of compromise, the dreamy hopes for good will, the irresponsibility of releasing terrorists, the self-indulgence of weariness, and the idiocy of unilateral withdrawal.

Bush Doctrine, RIP

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 11:25

Andy McCarthy bemoans the demise of what I had at the top of the very short list of things Bush has done right.

Of course, the underlying logic of the Bush Doctrine was that rewarding terrorists and their rogue state benefactors with negotiations and concessions inevitably encourages more of their barbarism. Firmness is the only language they understand. As top terror recipients of Iran’s largesse wage war with Israel, it’s worth asking whether we’ve forgotten that.

How demoralizing propaganda is done

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 11:07

Found this on LGF. Seen this photo?

You’ll be shocked – shocked! – to learn it was set up by foreign journalists.

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