The choices with Iran January 13, 2006
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Victor David Hanson sees four options in dealing with the increasing threat of a (crazy) nuclear Iran. Ignore and hope it just goes away; increase the international condemnation; allow Israel to take care of it; or take care of the problem ourselves with a few weeks of strategic bombing.
What I would like to see, right now, is for liberals to start stating exactly how they think we should solve this problem. Too often, they remain silent and then criticize whatever is attempted. The fourth option might be the best one, yet I can already imagine the howls of protest, and front pages filled with images of injured babies.
Right now, this is THE story. Not the Alito hearings, and certainly not the Abramoff scandel,
Mister Snitch!: Premature electulation January 13, 2006
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From Mister Snitch!, a definition:
The reaction to Abramoff is just the latest example of a debilitating but seldom-mentioned malady known as ‘Premature Electulation’: Elation over an election or other political milestone long before it’s certain or appropriate. P.E. has rendered Democrats impotent for years, but it is now reaching crisis proportions. Unable to ‘deliver the goods’, today’s Democrats have resigned themselves to hoping the other guy falls beneath their level of performance.
We must not remain silent while this political killer goes unchecked.
No, indeed.
h/t:KISP
The Eagle Has Landed January 13, 2006
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By eagle I mean my brother-in-law, and by landed I mean he just arrived in Bangor, Maine, after a year in Baghdad! He just called to tell me, so it’s official. Woot woot!