Be on the lookout

Have you seen any of these “students“?

If you can’t stage the photo

just make the caption a lie.

Even if it gets “corrected” later, you’ll still have provided the propaganda fodder you wanted.

Green Helmet Guy – Director

LGF snagged video from Zapp, a German TV program, with proof of Green Helmet Guy’s role as director.

Turns out he’s had a long career. He was doing this back in 1996!

Since all of this media scrutiny was triggered by Adnan Hajj’s poor PhotoShop skills, I wonder how long it’ll be before the nutroots claim he’s working for Karl Rove.

Meanwhile, next door in Cuba

Any rejoicing over the death (which I think has already happened) of Fidel Castro gets squelched by learning who Raúl Castro is.

Raúl was always under the influence — of alcohol and self-importance. My Cuban intelligence counterpart in those days, Sergio del Valle, who was Raúl’s closest associate going back to their early days in the Sierra Maestra, used to call his boss “Raúl the Terrible” in a semi-serious allusion to the first Russian to crown himself tsar. Raúl was Cuba’s uncrowned tsar — his official title was “Maximum General.” Fidel gave the speeches, hour after hour. Raúl ran Cuba’s economy, her foreign policy, her foreign trade, her justice system, her jails, her tourism — even her hotels and her beaches.

Raúl is generally perceived as a colorless minister of defense, but he has also been the brutal head of one of Communism’s most criminal institutions: the Cuban political police. I met him in that capacity. He was cruel and ruthless. Fidel may have conceived the terror that has kept Cuba in the Communist fold, but Raúl has been the butcher. He has been instrumental in the killing and terrorizing of thousands of Cubans, and there is no question in my mind but that he would fight tooth and nail to preserve his powers. Otherwise, sooner or later Raúl would have to account for his crimes, and I do not know him to be suicidal.

How to Lose the Long War

Andrew McCarthy argues that we’re doing it just fine.

“No,” you say, “not true. The administration is deftly running diplomatic interference for Israel, slow-walking a truce so the Israelis have time to put a hurtin’ on Hezbollah.” Really? Was that what you really thought “drive them from place to place” meant? Running interference with France while somebody else does your heavy lifting? Is this what you supposed was meant by regarding state sponsors as “hostile regimes”? We play diplo-chess for our ally while Iran not only arms and directs but, now, actually joins Hezbollah in the fighting?

I wonder if American admiration for British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be as strong if, when it came time to fight jihadists and their enablers in Afghanistan and Iraq, England figured it was good enough to run diplomatic interference with France.

This morning I heard Bush refer to Islamic fascists, and cheered. How discouraging it is at a time of war to have to cheer the president for only sounding vaguely like he did a few years ago.