Time for encouraging news about the “surge”.
Are the policies paying off? “King David” as Petraeus is known from his previous tour of duty up near the Syrian border, is cautiously optimistic. “Less than half the al Qaeda leaders who were in Baghdad when this [surge] campaign began are still in the city,” he said. “They have fled or are being killed or captured. We are attriting them at a fearsome rate.”
This video interview a nice little list of some of the techniques which will be used against your kids – and you, if you are a “resister”, by the “educational” establishment.
Short version: If you don’t like the curriculum, don’t take their offer to be on the committee.
I heard Joel Mowbray on KSFO this morning mention a couple of scandals. One is that USAID is supporting a terrorist school: Islamic University, in Gaza. So legitimized is that Hamas school now that Intel plans to open a high tech plant and school there.
Perhaps worse, Al-Hurra, which used to be our “Voice of America” in the Arab world, has been turned over to an ex-CNN cronie who has made it more of a terrorist voice than al Jazeera.
That whirring sound is the Bush Doctrine spinning in its grave.
Reasonable men can certainly disagree on politics, and what course U.S. foreign policy should take. Clearly (as in any war) grievous mistakes have been made in Iraq. Civil discourse does not require raised pinkies nor the kind of politeness which Ralph Waldo Emerson said “ruins conversations.”
Given all of that, why does it seem that a certain sector of political speech seems hell bent on looking like freaks?
NB: Even though all of those photos were taken in broad daylight on a public street, some of them are NSFW (Not Safe For Work).
