The UN-recognized Libyan government captured the al-Waitya airbase southwest of Tripoli from Hiftar's LNA. The base had been key for Hiftar' slow offensive. But Hiftar screwed up. He gave his enemy time. And Turkey used the time to intervene to stop Hiftar.
This is another take on my worry that we so far can't compare one country's experience with and response to the Xi Jinping Flu: "One reason for the higher American and European numbers per million is a better health care system that can identify and count more of the infected and dead. Not all nations are able, or willing, to get accurate numbers. Many nations don’t really notice the deaths covid19 causes because the death rate for covid19 is not much worse than a very bad annual influenza epidemic. Moreover [covid19] is most lethal to those who already have serious medical problems. There are fewer of those in many poor nations that have not got the medical infrastructure to keep the seriously ill alive."
China will continue to erode democracy and rule of law in Hong Kong. For people who allegedly have an amazing long-range planning ability (hah!) the Chinese of the CCP sure are in a hurry to control Hong Kong completely prior to the 50 years of freedom that Hong Kong in theory was granted more than two decades ago. The U.S. spoke out for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters. Hong Kongers out protesting the new CCP effort to crush their remnants of freedom faced tear gas fired by Chinese security forces.
Iran's chief nutballs says America will be ejected from Syria and Iraq. Well, if the Iranians didn't fight our efforts to roll back their influence it wouldn't be a war would it? And even when America leaves Syria at some point (assuming Assad is still in charge), Israel isn't going anywhere.
I see that the ayatollah Khamenei is still out there:
Is he auditioning for a Carnac the Magnificent reboot?
Ssss, boom, bah, indeed.
The X-37B is in space again. Is it just me or does this craft get more media attention as time goes on? Scale it up and it can house a boarding party. Which I've wanted even before I came up with the cool name SMOD for the Space Force marines. I like the second breakout of the SMOD acronym. Although I still think STAR is pretty good.
I don't know what kind of mental gymnastics you have to contort your arguments into to reach this conclusion, but safe havens that allow you to plan, train, rest, access the world, gather supplies, and otherwise live without having to expend all your efforts trying to survive in a hostile environment are too valuable to simply dismiss as irrelevant to enabling terrorism.
If Russia is provoked by ex-vassal states wanting to join NATO to prevent them from being future vassal states of Russia, the problem is Russia and not NATO expansion. The ability to excuse any Russian expansionist aims with the justification of Russian paranoia is amazing. Elements of the right are now in the business of making excuses for Russia while Democrats are all General Ripper on the Russians (for the moment). The Xi Jinping Flu pandemic is the thing that makes the most sense these days.
Go figure. The media has forfeited a lot of the trust they once had to sway people in the direction the media wants.
No! Way!
Wait. One nationalized delivery service isn't enough? Hard pass. Tip to Instapundit.
I am open to the possibility that nationwide shutdowns adopted globally in the wake of the Xi Jinping Flu pandemic were a mistake. Not that I blame politicians for starting down that path given the lack of information we had and the horrible models that scared the heck out of politicians. But county- and city-based lockdowns where there were spikes in cases would probably have been better, combined with voluntary self-isolation outside of the lockdowns for those with flu symptoms. But again, this is all outside my lanes. Then again, a nationwide policy of lockdowns may have been a good idea for a month tops, but too many people got carried away with staying locked down until all danger passed. After action views should be plentiful. Hopefully 20/20 hindsight is not used to condemn too harshly. This was outside of everybody's lane, really. Even the ones who thought it was their lane.
Will the post-Xi Jinping geography reduce political polarization? "[The people moving out of dense cities] will likely support those who support their aspirations rather than indulge a never-ending environment of ceaseless, and often pointless, political warfare." How cute to actually believe that!
An actual whistleblower. Bringing Chicago politics to the White House was very harmful. There better be prison terms and lost pensions resulting from this banana republic behavior. Nicely creased pants don't make it okay. Tip to Instapundit. Funny that our media doesn't celebrate this whistleblower, eh?
I think states had a moral and ethical duty to have responsible fiscal policies that could endure a major setback without disaster.
Just go away Hillary.
Yes, Jake, the Russia-Trump collusion theory was a hoax. And no, saying that does not deny that Russia interfered in our 2016 election. The Russians are liars. As they were when they were still the USSR. And you'd think that there would be some recognition that the whole Resistance thing vastly amplified Russia's small and sadly goofy effort that likely had no effect. Is Tapper that bad at his "journalism" job or is he a partisan hack? I know, the healing power of "and."
Democrats claim to love plans. The Obama "plan" for a pandemic being cited by Democrats and their media allies to attack Trump is not even close to being a plan. Once again, avert your eyes, puny mortals!
Media logic: To reopen a state economy you need to expand testing. Expanded testing will show more infections regardless of whether there are more infections. More identified infections means reopening was a horrible mistake. The media is failing at their basic job in this pandemic.
Reporters who celebrate the legacy of Watergate reporting think that they have no obligation to examine Obamagate until the Trump administration provides the evidence. Journalists don't have that attitude. Democratic operatives have that attitude. Face it, the scandal of domestic spying by the Obama administration is real, and it's spectacular. Or so it appears. I can certainly be persuaded that the smoke doesn't indicate fire because dots are being connected without true relationships. Lord, I want to believe that the Obama administration wasn't capable of this. But if true, when presented with the evidence the journalists will be all "Old news! Move on!" Truly, the dog that did not bark in the night is most unusual--or should be.
Just a reminder that we wouldn't tolerate Aryan Institutes or Putin Institutes, but China runs Confucius Institute propaganda and espionage centers all across America.
One of the X-37B experiments is to test collecting solar power in space and beaming it to a surface collector. In a high school class we had to write a post-Apocalypse story. Mine was a recovered society that used such capabilities for power, to export to other people around the world, and as a weapon if the beam was tightened. The article says weaponizing it really isn't feasible. The article also says that this is the first experiment for this since the 19th century. I assume they meant 20th century. Also, it isn't my imagination. The Air Force is talking more about this mission. And Space Force is handling the launch even though the craft is Air Force. Perhaps after this experiment the Space Force will take over?
Huh, the head of WHO has a history of covering up three cholera epidemics in his home country Ethiopia. No wonder China backed him for the WHO job.
Israel continues to pound Iranian assets in Syria to prevent Iran from moving weapons to Lebanon for Hezbollah to attack Israel. Iran is building up a protected depot in eastern Syria on the border of Iraq. Everybody involved in Syria wants Iran out. I assume Assad wants Iran out, too. I wonder if the eastern depot will be smashed by Israel when the facility is finished or whether Iraqi forces will cross the border and capture the facility for intelligence and then blow it up on the ground?
The allegation is that Putin bungled the Xi Jinping Flu, but the infection rate is slowing now. Although Dagestan is apparently in rather bad shape. I still don't know how we can compare one country to another with such varied testing and reporting practices. At some point when comparisons are made, researchers will need to establish uniform definitions; and coding all that will require armies of grad students, I imagine.
Trump said he is taking Hydroxychloroquine to reduce the risk of getting the Xi Jinping Flu. Democrats in and out of the media are horrified. I have no opinion on the drug (out of my lanes, as I've often said). But if Democrats truly thought the drug was harmful rather than helpful I suspect they'd have been insisting for the last two months that Trump take it. And on cue:
I suspect that if China invades Taiwan that America will intervene even if it is too late to stop China from getting ashore. An authoritarian Taiwan would not be able to convince Americans for strategic reasons to save them. But a free and democratic Taiwan will move the public--especially post-Xi Jinping Flu--to support saving them from a CCP-run China that is a horror we haven't seen since Nazi Germany. That's my opinion, of course. But honor is a powerful motivator.
I actually did LOL:
It seems like only yesterday that Democrats and the media were saying that conservatives should be focused on the Xi Jinping Flu rather than "obsessing" with the now-Democratic Russia collusion scandal. Yet today I find out that Pelosi's House is working on another impeachment. You won't hear the media or other Democrats insisting Pelosi focus on the pandemic instead. Because they didn't the first time. Try to imagine Trump ordering stricter measures to fight the pandemic back then without Democrats bleating that he was trying to distract us from the VERY SOLEMN impeachment trial proceedings.
Governor Cuomo complained that America isn't supporting New York City through the Xi Jinping Flu the way it did after 9/11. I think that is incorrect. America is helping. And rightly so, although I don't want to pay for pre-pandemic fiscal problems. But New York billed people who went to NYC to help by taxing their wages. For the 9/11 analogy to really fit, the 9/11 attackers would have had to land and refuel in NYC before flying off to attack other parts of the country, too. A media that wasn't carrying water for Democrats would find New York's state and NYC responses horrifying. Look, I managed to be happy for California that their far-left leadership seems to have contained the threat well contrary to my expectations (although lockdown seems to be lasting too long now). But then again, I can change my mind because I wasn't trained in a leftist "journalism" school.
If it misleads it leads.
If this keeps up, MoveOn will go back to its original purpose instead of being just one more Democratic advocacy group.
De Blasio threatens to fence off beaches. Wait. What? Walls work?
The Resistance really has no sense of humor.
I swear, the only thing the left can laugh at in this era is some comedian saying "Deplorables are stupid." Their "comedy" is all ideology maintenance now.
I believe I mentioned that military members might not want to separate from service to go into our civilian economy right now.
Before Michigan schools were closed in mid-March I started to prepare for a lockdown by slowly building up supplies. One thing I ordered after not seeing any in stores was a thermometer. My existing one was old and if it died I wanted a spare. I still haven't gotten it and finally complained. The company quickly responded and offered to send another. The staff warned me that it would take a while because it is coming from China. Notwithstanding that I wrote an article about using the Army against China in war and another on adapting amphibious operations under China's A2/AD threat, I decided to assume that the Chinese people are a victim of their CCP government. So I thanked the staff member and gave them the ubiquitous "stay safe" sign off. A little bit of soft diplomacy, eh? And my old thermometer is still working. And I still haven't needed to buy toilet paper--despite not even imagining the need to stock up on that!
Governor Cuomo has asked major league sports to reopen without fans. But in a twist he has decided to send recovering pandemic patients into the stadiums and arenas.
Last week I noted the extremely troubling Obama interference with the incoming Trump administration in contrast to the departing Clinton administration's removal of "W" keys in White House keyboards when Bush 43 won: "If only Obama staffers had confined themselves to removing "D" keys. Hell, they could have gone after the "T" keys, too, and I'd have just chuckled. Instead I want them locked up." It seems like another world then, when that post-2000 incident seemed like a real break with tradition and decorum. Really, what the Obama administration did is no less than trampling on the American tradition of peaceful transfer of power. Russia's amateurish and minuscule election interference in 2016 sought to damage our democracy. The Obama administration and its evil spawn the Resistance are what have seriously damaged our democracy. "Useful idiots" doesn't begin to describe their damaging role. Seriously, if Trump refuses to accept the results of the 2020 election (he won't), what would he do differently than what the Democrats have done since 2016?
Australia should be glad to have gotten this lesson of what life in a region dominated by China will look like all the time. Tip to Instapundit.
We keep learning more about the Xi Jinping Flu. Like how contagious it isn't via surfaces.
I was not enough of an adult to refrain from clicking on the naked college cheerleader scandal link. Sorry. SFW, FYI. I'd forgotten that competitive cheerleading is a thing. Clothed, of course.
Ethiopia will not delay filling their Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam at the pace Ethiopia wants, regardless of Egypt's and Sudan's concerns about getting enough water downstream of the dam on the Nile River.
Michigan is starting to tentatively open up, beginning with northwest Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. My country is part of the southeast Michigan region hardest hit, so I assume our opening up is last on the list. Which sucks given that we haven't been hit that badly compared to Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. On the other hand, if Ann Arbor was excluded from southeast Michigan, when we opened up a lot of people from the Detroit area would be rolling into Ann Arbor via the freeways for our open bars and restaurants, which might not be good for us right now. Regardless, the general lockdown is extended to June 12th. I expected a few weeks. That will put us close to three months. What price are we paying for an uncertain gain?
They've got to be effing kidding me.
Tip to Instapundit.
I've never watched the Tiger King series. I almost watched because for a long time when I saw it on Netflix, I thought it was a Michael Palin spoof. Seriously, the Netflix picture really looks like Palin, doesn't it? Once my impression was dispelled, my interest dropped off the chart.
The technology arms race.
Even if he deserves it, Obama will not be prosecuted for "Obamagate." It would tear the country apart. His guilt may be demonstrated--we'll see--but if it is, he'll be pardoned. Then the parties are even (Nixon). But perhaps Obama isn't guilty given that it is possible that the initial concern about Trump was not out of bounds. As I've said, I can see that. What is absolutely wrong was the over-enthusiastic pursuit after Obama departed of the collusion narrative long after the evidence for it fell apart. Unconnected dots were connected to create a fantasy picture. But people will be punished because what they did was wrong and dangerous for our democracy. I'm starting to wonder if James Comey will be the fall guy at the top of the prison pyramid. After all, even the left can hate him for his actions regarding Hillary. He might not be the highest ranking guilty person, but he might be the highest ranking prosecuted person.
Another fake whistle-blower martyr. Journalists aren't very good at providing news; but they are good at being Democratic Party operatives. So mission accomplished, I guess. Tip to Instapundit.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to improve our image in Europe, but if Germans think China is better than America in whatever way polls ask, that's Germany's problem. That's nuts. How can German opinion move toward a horrible China at the expense of an allied and democratic America? I don't buy that Germans want American leadership on the Xi Jinping Flu pandemic. If Trump was telling Germans and Europeans what to do, raise your hands if you think Germans would be saluting and executing. Anyone?
Anyone? And yes, German opinions of America shot up when Obama was president. But what exactly did that provide America? Help in the Middle East? Rearmament to contain Russia? Cheap schnitzel imports? Their good will and a buck got us a small coffee. So address the issue but don't obsess. There was a lot of BS in that article.
North and South Clusterf*ck. I just don't follow this war that closely because chaos and war seems to be a constant.
Once again, lockdown was for the purpose of bending the (Xi Jinping Flu infection) curve to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed--not to cure the pandemic. And extending the lockdown isn't going to help hospitals (and will hurt them by depriving them of revenue) or cure the pandemic. Yes it will get worse once we open up. That was always the assumption. But do we know it will be worse than the effects of indefinite lockdown? Especially given how model predictions of doom have vanished into thin air? The pandemic is bad. And it justified action, in my mind. Including a 2-week lockdown--okay, give it 4--but for most parts of the country, this lockdown is starting to look like a murder-suicide pact.
I have to admit, when I first heard that Susan Rice "by the book" comment I thought of Captain Kirk.
Brexit: keep calm and carry on--on time. I don't assume Brexit wins until Britain is out of the European Union. Remainers colluding with the EU will do just about anything to reverse the 2015 referendum.
If Democrats did buy this unicorn in a vain hope to finally get something on Trump, my bet is they keep quiet about this embarrassing face plant and float rumors that Trump bought the unicorn to keep it hidden. Lemons and lemonade, as the expression goes.
Well, Californians can be as generous as they want, I guess. That's how federalism works. As long as Californians pay for it and don't expect the federal government to bail them out.
If this holds up it is good news on the Covi19 front. Tip to Instapundit.
That kind of ambiguity of roles makes it hard to have a nuclear arms control agreement with China.
I was advised that this sort of thing was ruled out by the infusion of Hope and Change. Via Instapundit.
The busy world of special operations command. Great power competition compels a revival of skills for fighting great powers, even as missions remain from the War on Terror as it becomes the Global Troubles.
Hahaha (those are tears of laughter, I swear!):
Hmmm. We're at the "coincidence" level of the "bad luck--coincidence--enemy action" framework of evaluating bad things with the second stealth fighter loss this week at Eglin.
I know I mentioned this before, but the bright side is that the moron was a MSU professor and not a Michigan professor. I honestly would have bet on the latter. Whew. And notice that she just assumed that a wedding picture would be of two heterosexuals. Hater. That God it is still legal for me to micro-care about such nonsense.
The Michigan dam that failed was a known problem back in 1999 and a couple years ago there was federal action to compel remedial measures. Thank God for government regulation. Also, the operator wanted to lower the water level but the state wanted to protect mussels. Nice priority.
The Air Force demonstrated that it could reinforce Japan despite the Xi Jinping Flu pandemic.
The uncertainty about Kim Jong Un's health status was not eliminated by those photo ops earlier in the month. Also, accurate data about the Xi Jinping Flu has disappeared. Lord knows what the true pandemic situation is in either North Korea or China.In other news, the fire from North Korea in that DMZ incident was an accident caused by inexperienced troops. I would have thought that only trusted and trained troops would be on the DMZ. Also, South Korea had a problem when a remotely controlled HMG could not be fired in response.
The U-2's retirement continues to be put off. The ones we have in service now were built in the 1980s.
If Democrats replace Biden at their convention wouldn't they doing what they feverishly claim Trump might do after November--disregarding the wish of voters? Isn't that a bad look? Of course, that assumes the media wouldn't support the Democrats in urging people to move along because there's nothing to see.
Nearly as many Germans want a close relationship with China as they do with America. I don't believe that they really believe that. But if we are to believe the Germans that they really are barely restrained Nazis, how far are we from a Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the People's Republic of China? But China has a lot of obstacles in its path before it could supplant America, and the author mentions a factor I wrote about here.
When looking for options for virtual game nights I downloaded Messenger without realizing it is a Facebook product. So I got to cancel a Facebook account for a second time.
Obama doesn't want to attend an unveiling of his official portrait at the White House while Trump is in office and the media spins this as Trump shunning Obama. It's so odd that the media is so mistrusted by conservatives.
Is Russia lying about their Xi Jinping Flu casualty numbers? Why shouldn't their firehose of falsehood spray that way, too?
I noticed there was an opinion piece in the local paper urging Republicans to put country over party and vote for Biden. I refrained from reading it lest I find I know the moron. I assure you, I always put country first and that is why I'll vote for Trump.
But our media says China's dictatorial methods ended the Xi Jinping Flu epidemic there! "China’s Communist Party is again seizing factory lines churning out the world’s supply of medical safety gear — sparking fears the country is preparing for a second wave of the coronavirus, American traders in China told The Post." Something is going on in northeast China.
Getting to the FREMM FFG(X). What to do with the LCS that are retired early? How about APD testing for amphibious warfare (membership required)? As an aside, FFG(X)'s a damn big "frigate." I think of it more as Burke Lite.
Americans are more risk averse now than in the past. I noted this before. Or maybe our government and media are just more risk averse, I suppose. What if they had reacted more confidently in the face of the Xi Jinping Flu?
I suspect Biden's lead in polling is fleeting and will only serve to reduce the pressure to replace Biden as the candidate. But what do I know? I didn't believe the polls in 2012 and believed them in 2016.
China has a frowny face: "The U.S government has notified Congress of a possible sale of advanced torpedoes to Taiwan worth around $180 million, further souring already tense ties between Washington and Beijing, which claims Taiwan as Chinese territory." America should tell China that we are simply selling Taiwan our best Personal Protection Equipment (PPE).
#BelieveAllConfederates?
Wait. What? Who's killing grandmas? I don't want to hear another damn word about how Trump could kill a man in the middle of 5th Avenue and his supporters wouldn't care. (D) after your name is the true shield. Journalism schools are clearly just Democratic Party Finishing Schools.
Well, it's early. With practice you won't even see the lips of Biden's handlers move at all!
Russia's foreign adventures puzzle me. Russia can ill afford their foreign adventures all over the globe as if Russia is a superpower. What on Earth does Putin think Russia will gain by interfering in Libya on the LNA's side? (But the author's idea that we should thwart Putin by supporting the jihadi-friendly recognized GNA government is nonsense.) And Lord, given Russia's finances that barely allow them to interfere in Libya, can Russia really afford to win in Libya? Putin would be like the dog that caught the car. What now? Still, the whole mess is an interesting postscript on the left's Libya War theory that if only America would knock out the dictator and then refuse to get involved, the locals would quickly sort out their differences without our "awful" presence.
Will Hong Kong's fight for freedom eventually be the source of the Chinese Communist Party's defeat? It seems too good to be true. But I noted that the freedom "virus" might be lethal to the CCP in October 2019, funny enough in light of the subsequent Xi Jinping Flu pandemic.
A small torpedo for Navy attack and active anti-torpedo defense. Everybody else is getting smaller weapons that, because of accuracy, can still destroy targets. Does that apply to naval warfare where size still matters when attacking--especially with double-hulled submarines? It seems like CRAW is a good defensive option (if it works) and perhaps for offense when the standard larger torpedoes are overkill. It could be put on surface warships as well--although that seems to have run into a problem--like a RAM/Phalanx point defense weapon against missile attack.
If Erdogan has prompted an anti-Western admiral to resign, I doubt that this is more than a false signal of rejoining the West--because Sultan Erdogan is the architect of Turkey's swing to autocracy and the Middle East. And Turkey finds that its hope to find allies in Russia and Iran isn't working out like Erdogan hoped. Oh well. I'd wait until Erdogan is rejected by Turks before restoring Turkey to NATO's good graces.
Another ex-treaty with Putin's lying, cheating Russia. Russia cheats, so maintaining the "sanctity" of the Open Skies Treaty is just a gift to Putin.
It sounds bad that Biden told an African-American man questioning Biden's policies “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black." But watching it, the conversation was friendly and you need that context to appreciate the nature of the comment on that person-to-person level. That said, its nice to see Biden experience the out-of-context treatment usually reserved for Trump. And I will also say that the attitude of that quote among Democrats is all too real. And perhaps that is--or should be--the real outrage. Biden wasn't being insulting to a man. He committed a faux pas by telling the truth about how Democrats view all African Americans. Perhaps African Americans--and other minorities--need a Societal Emancipation Proclamation to grant them freedom of political association.
Hmmm, the Xi Jinping Flu virus was "manipulated in a Chinese laboratory"? Early on experts said it had no signs of being created in a lab. But scientists have told us a lot of things that haven't proven to be true. Still, "manipulated" may be a term of art that makes that claim pretty banal and not an explosive revelation. Outside of my lanes, as I've admitted. Tip to Instapundit.
Baby steps, I suppose. Next they'll admit that Kim's VCR clock is still flashing.
Oh good, jihadi terrorism in Texas at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. On the bright side, the jihadi scum ball is dead. And the left will have to condemn the man rather than make excuses for his Islamist murderous rage--because he violated lockdown to carry out his attack. That is unforgivable.
Britain seems like--but I assume nothing until the end of the year--it will gain its freedom from the proto-imperial European Union. Now the British people just need to gain their freedom from their own government which may have internalize a lot of dangerous ideas about what state power can be.
Apparently the problem I noted of the F-35 suffering damage at supersonic speeds isn't anywhere near as bad as the initial reports I read made it out to be--and were under very atypical conditions. So that's a relief. The limits will extend time between maintenance and would be lifted in combat with no short-term problem.
The thin green line in Alaska.
Yes, it is very odd that Biden beat Bernie by rallying the non-socialist elements of the Democratic Party, only to allow his candidacy to be the Vanguard of the Bernietariat. It takes a Democrat to surrender after winning, I guess.
Egypt continues to kill jihadis in the Sinai Peninsula. The continuing appeal of jihad is disheartening.
American forces and our Kurdish allies in Syria killed a couple ISIL leaders. There were plenty of people arguing that America abandoned the Syrian Kurds--not me, of course--and here we see our forces still working against a common enemy.
This guy is clueless. Contrary to his assertions, America is exercising leadership all around the world; Afghanistan and not Iraq a year and a half after 9/11 was the central focus of our response to 9/11; calling Bush 43 a "neocon" grossly misunderstands the term which simply means former leftists who became conservative to resist the USSR; China has a long way to go to surpass American hard power; and we actually won the Iraq War by turning a terror-supporting threat to the region into a terrorist-killing ally. And then I lost the will to keep reading. Hopefully Australians don't look to that guy for strategic advice.
Democrats keep using that word "science." I don't think that means what they think it means. We didn't know it at the time based on what we thought we knew, but I think (but I admit I could be wrong--not my lane as I've said repeatedly) we overreacted to the Xi Jinping Flu. We can't go back in time, of course. So I don't blame leaders for beginning the extreme lockdowns. But we can act now on correcting that mistake, no? Tips to Instapundit.
Constituent services at work in the Pelosi-controlled House of Representatives.
Hiftar vows to keep fighting the recognized national government backed by Turkey.
I have to say I didn't see this one coming. Tip to Instapundit.
Yeah, American soldiers didn't die on the D-Day beaches to destroy a regime of people who disagreed with your plans to create city bike path networks. That type of cheap (and wrong) insult cheapens what they died for in World War II. When everyone you don't like is a Nazi, nobody is. And worse, we ignore that Nazis and Fascists were actually just a version of socialists. Dishonest morons have set the definitions of our debates. Tip to Instapundit.
On my patio with warm weather finally, drinking coffee while birds have breakfast:
The 2009 Battle of Kamdesh, Afghanistan, is worthy of a movie which is coming out next month. But more than 17 years after the battle, we still don't have a movie about the Iraq War Battle for Larry, Curly, and Moe during the Baghdad Thunder Run.
It's a short journey from hating America to colluding with our enemies. Tip to Instapundit.
