Chutzpah

That’s what this Lebanese/Hezbo broadcast has when it talks of Israeli barbarism while showing Islamist barbarism.

(Warning: Graphic and distrubing footage of the desecration of Israeli corpses.)

Straining at a Silver Lining

VDH sees hope amid despair in the Middle East. He sees recent terrorism, including the Hezbo attack on Israel and the foiled airline bombing plot, as being counterproductive to the Islamists, since it’s unmasking them.

In an amorphous war of self-induced Western restraint, like the present one, truth and moral clarity are as important as military force. This past month, the world of the fascist jihadist and those who tolerate him was once again on display for civilization to fathom. Even the most timid and prone to appeasement in the West are beginning to see that it is becoming a question of “the Islamists or us.”

In this eleventh hour, that is a sort of progress after all.

I hope he’s right that the tide is turning. But there’s an awful lot of denial yet, and the tide sure seems slow to me.

So there’s your modified modicum of cheer for this Friday.

The leaks matter

only when it’s convenient to the traitors, apparently. Andy McCarthy reports

In order to convince Judge Anna Diggs Taylor to invalidate the NSA program, these plaintiffs had to establish that they had “standing” to sue — meaning that they had suffered some kind of individualized harm, something that was unique because it is not enough for standing purposes to simply claim a general objection to government policies.

So how did these plaintiffs claim to have been harmed? They are journalists, lawyers and scholars who do research and other work in the Middle East. But now, according to Judge Taylor’s opinion, they have sworn in affidavits that “Persons abroad who before the program [became pubic knowledge] spoke with them by telephone or internet no longer do so.” They are, she says, “stifled in their ability to vigorously conduct research, interact with sources, talk to clients,” because people suddenly think the U.S. government is listening.

Get it?