Category Archives: U.S. Foreign Relations

US/Israel Drills, Plans, Posts

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America!!  F— Yeah!

The drill, which is unprecedented in its size, will include the establishment of US command posts in Israel and IDF command posts at EUCOM headquarters in Germany – with the ultimate goal of establishing joint task forces in the event of a large-scale conflict in the Middle East.

via US commander visits Israel to finalize missile… JPost – Defense.

This cuts both ways.  It may be a decive to bolster Israel by establishing an overt US Military presence in Israel, in order to forcibly entangle our responses, but only in case of an attack on Israel.  It may also be a device to limit Israel’s freedom in whacking Iran, but with the counterweight of reducing (though not eliminating) her need to do so.

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Burn in Hell, Kim Jong Il.

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What took so long? Ding Dong, etc.

PYONGYANG, North Korea AP — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69.

via News from The Associated Press.

I give the furtive inbred mutant son about 72 more hours before his innermost thoughts become his outermost clothing. This is going to be great!

Recently, slave labor camps were discovered in RUSSIAN Siberia, where apparently the Norks have been selling humans to the Soviets to haul coal, or handle lumber, or whatever they do in Siberian work camps these days. Russian Mafia will be the most likely foreign support for what remains of the disgusting Kim regime, and that includes Putin and the rest of his KGB bastards.

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Pakistan Civil War

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For all my criticism of our recent conduct in abandoning critical interests, I feel that the real loser in this week’s outrages in Pakistan is of course, Pakistan.  Pakistan is both a friend and an enemy, and to solve the problem in Afghanistan requires a solution to Pakistan.  The Army, much of the government, and much of the population are friendly to the US, NATO, and western influence in limited but welcome ways.  The intelligence and security services, parts of the military, and a well-connected (internally and externally) religious segment of the population are angling for their place in a post-American middle east, banking on our failure and departure, in no particular order, while working to achieve both.

I suspect that the recent border incident in which we … Continue reading →

Former Iraqi General: Saddam's WMDs in Syria

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[Update: Apparently, this has been well-researched and of course poorly reported.  This may be a good time to “make some hay”, as we are slinking away from a crumbling Iraq and Syria is bustin’ loose.  Well, at least there’s Iran to help stabilize the region, right, Murtha?]

I have said all along that the WMDs went to Syria, but I thought the reported “endless convoy” of trucks going north as we came in from the south was the event.  This former Iraqi general says that it was much earlier, using the cover story of relief materiel to aid after a dam burst.  There’s a tent-peg at [the date the dam burst] and November1, 2002.  If he’s right, the WMDs were transferred between those dates.

The “relief” airlift and … Continue reading →

Marxism Colonizing Pentagon

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This is bad.

POLICY BOARD SHIFT

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta this week moved to replace key members of the Defense Policy Board, the advisory group of former officials that serves as a brain trust.

“He made it more ‘Democratic,’” one board member quipped about the changes.

Liberals added to the board include former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright and Jane Harman, a former Democratic congresswoman from California. Also added: former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead.

Most notable among the new members is Ms. Gorelick, who was notorious for erecting the so-called bureaucratic “wall” blocking law enforcement and intelligence agencies from cooperating closely before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The … Continue reading →

Uncomfortably Numb

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In our dark moments, we wonder: If this is freedom, what’s the big deal?

China

China is undergoing its most significant upheaval since becoming a communist state.  Any communist revolution is by definition an attempt to deny and suppress the spirit of man.  The current transition will be both more important and more successful than the revolution there, because this move has been anticipated for thousands of years–it is led by reality, rather than the other way around.  China, long famous for deprecating any knowledge or influence from barbarian realms, is becoming oriented beyond its own borders.

While we dither and kowtow by re-forming NASA into the North African Space Administration (with a mission to make Muslim countries feel proud of their accomplishments, no less), the Chinese are … Continue reading →

Anti-American Hikers

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Boy, no sooner do you extend a bit of patience than you realize how late it really is.  I hadn’t done any reading on the three hikers who have now all been released by Iran, so when I saw some comments on FaceBook which I thought were harsh and critical, I responded that I thought they were just granola hippies caught up in the Iranian propaganda.  I figured their criticism of America was just reflexive parroting of the Iranian line they had had no choice but to hear for a couple of years.

I wrote, in closing:

“They are hippie hikers who never understood the danger they were in, and I would not expect them to have a moral core to rely on to resist having their thoughts … Continue reading →