#1
General, if you don't know who your enemy is, maybe it's time for you to go home. Usually your enemy is the one who is trying to kill you. Check out the direction of the fire.
#2
I think he meant to say that we need a new label for the enemy, as "Taliban" basically means Muslims who are Afghan or Pushtun or Pakistani, but who are not "not-Taliban", whoever they are.
#4
A vote for "bandits." A good description of most of the planet's current enemies of order and civilization, be they FARQuistas or provos or taliban or Putin's men or Government Sachs thieves or ....
#2
Wow they are 30 years behind the times. In the early 80s I had to attend "Race relations" when I was in the service. The course would be better titled: "Your white and you should be ashamed of yourself" Later it was renamed "Equal Opportunity" to focus on the sins of people who had the mistake of being born both white and male. It seems that because I lacked a vagina and dark skin, my life had been way to easy. Total waste of time IMHO.
#3
When the Navy started this nonsense in the '70's, it quickly got the nickname "Archie Bunker School" due to its actual effect of reinforcing negative opinions of other racial groups.
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#4
I also heard one student say she rejected the term "gender-neutral" as sexist, and instead preferred "gender-fluid."
#5
From the same thinking that 'acting white' is now the pejorative term used to refer to others, within certain self identifying racial groups, who are successful academically and why Asian is now the 'new white'.
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" - Matthew 7:3
#6
Am I supposed to feel guilty about being white? My forebearers didn't even come to this country until around the 1900s on my mother's side. On my father's side they came from Ireland around the time of the potato famine. Neither side had an easy time of it. Coal miners on one side and laborers on the other side. There were a fair number of Irish who were indentured servants and had to buy their way out of servitude. My wife's parents were Jewish. They came here after WWII. They were in the German concentration camps. She lost her grandparents and some of her aunts and uncles there. Her relatives were slaves in these camps. So screw this article. People can feel guilty if they like but it is a waste of time for me.
#9
I had two RR seminars within 6 months because I was born (spit, spit) WHITE!!! They use to start them with the statement, "If you don't believe you're a racist then you can walk out now!" Believing that no one would do it. I did at the second one and got my ass in a sling for it.
#10
i hope they do make it manbdatory sop i can tell them too go too hell with that BS too along with their mandatory healthcare coverage. Couldn't afford it before what makes them think I can now.
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#11
I am an AMERICAN! To hell with the hyphenated bull$hit. "Whiteness" workshops do nothing more than foster fester scabs and split Americans. The people who promote such garbage can go to hell for trying to Balkanize America.
#13
I wonder if anti-Semitism is covered in these classes.
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#14
of course not we have an anti semite in the whitehouse, bunch of them actually
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#15
a few observations:
1) These people have entirely too much time on their hands.
2) see no.1
3) Society has become so pathetically soft that a century or so ago idiots like these would've suffered at the hands of natural selection. Man I hate pussified liberals.
4) the mere notion that only whites can be racist is in of itself racist.
#16
Just like the Black Congressional Caucus and the LSM whoring out the race card the other day when they lied about the N-word - this type of sh*t simply makes it much, much, more harder when there is *real* racism in play. And I believe that there is real, live, racism out there - and some of it is fairly ugly.
The next time there is an instance of *real* racism - the victims are either going to get laughed off, ignored, or not taken seriously because crap like this (and the Black Congressional Caucus) makes racism complaints a joke.
#20
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folks
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule
But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark
Are dancing cheek to cheek
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school
h, the poor folks hate the rich folks
And the rich folks hate the poor folks
All of my folks hate all of your folks
It's American as apple pie
But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans
'Cause it's very chic
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand
You can tolerate him if you try
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Moslems
And everybody hates the Jews
But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-
One-Another-hood Week
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you
It's only for a week, so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
#21
"If you don't believe you're a racist then you can walk out now!"
I'd have been right behind you, AA.
I don't do well in these classes insults - I refuse to play the victim card, and actually say nice things about men I know (not boyfriends, just friends). It drive them nuts. :-D
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#22
As long as there's moonbats, thar's gold in that thar guilt industry. They wanna feel like shit about themselves. They don't know any other way. It's like S&M without the whips.
#5
Surprise, surprise. The man's entire adult life has been an effort to pimp his race before one audience or another. He has no real accomplishments aside from his two autobiographies, which were themselves little more than navel-gazing and meditations on his racial identity.
#6
"There's a level of self-consciousness about these issues the previous generation had to negotiate that I don't feel I have to." -President Obama
And to think my sister (who I love dearly) tried to convince me that Sarah Palin was a bigger narcissist than Obama.
*chuckling to myself*
It didn't work then and it's most certainly not going to work now.
#2
She's not on our side--she doesn't strike me as a conservative, or someone on the way to becoming conservative, or someone who could be brought 'round to conservatism with a little persuasion. However, she is intelligent enough to realize that the DNC/MSNBC?NYT propaganda line is wrong, the Tea Party movement isn't Ernst Rohm and the Brownshirts--and that Obama-worship is fast going out of style and the Dems are heading for a meltdown. Is this Naomi positioning herself to be on the right side of a trend, or something deeper? We'll see.
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#3
The woman is reverting to her flower-child San Francisco roots. In her post-Gore campaign phase, she put on about 50lbs, separated from her husband and has spent much of her time traveling around college campuses inveighing against hookups and promoting romance. NTTAWWT, but I don't think she's now, or has ever been, a serious student of politics...
#4
Ms. Wolf is a puzzling person in a lot of ways, but she does have a point about power and corruption. She's a little late to that particular party, we conservatives having made that point repeatedly these last few decades, but better late than never.
There should be bright lines in American political activity. We should not hold American citizens (e.g., Jose Padilla) in military detention. If they're traitors, charge them and try them in a civilian court. There is indeed a difference between listening to a telephone conversation between two American citizens and a conversation between two foreigners: we can eavesdrop without a warrant on the latter but not the former.
If Ms. Wolf has now recognized that the bright lines are being obliterated by people on both sides of the aisle, some well-meaning and some decidedly not, then welcome, Ms. Wolf, we have a lot to discuss.
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#5
The colossal flameout that was Barry may have the same effect on the left that Bush's many failures has had on the right.
The real driver of a political realignment though should be economic insecurity, not civil liberties fears. Note that Naomi's expressed concern is that muslims may be persecuted, not that anyone's guns will be taken away.
Focus on mass underemployment (ca. 20% and not declining), our fiscal implosion and the widespread, and utterly correct, impression that Big Finance has captured the regulatory apparatus (not to mention the legislative and executive branches), and you have the makings of a realignment in this country.
The issue isn't left-right, or state vs individual. It's the failure of our betters to protect us from the devastation wrought by people who specialize in heads-we-win, tails-you-lose arbitraging of the state and the public treasury.
#7
IIRC about 8-9 years ago her marriage fell apart, she went from being gorgeous to being fat and rather dumpy, and her "beauty myth" well ran dry with no one paying much attention to her books or lectures. Kinda sad, indeed.
Barack Obama is in danger of reversing all the progress his predecessors, including George W. Bush, made in forging closer U.S. ties with India. Preoccupied with China and the Middle East, the Obama administration has allotted little room on its schedule for India, and failed to get much done in the short time it did make. Hosting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the November state visit, the administration managed to produce cordial photo ops, but the agreements reached on education, energy cooperation, and the like dealt with trivia.
Indian diplomats close to Singh say the lackluster results show how far the relationship has fallen since Bill Clinton and the two Bushes transformed a strained Cold War rivalry into a close strategic partnership between the world's largest democracies. Obama's predecessors built a relationship around trade negotiations, joint military exercises, and ad hoc coalitions for humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of the Indonesia tsunami. Despite his reputation for uniquely pushy diplomacy, it was George W. Bush who concluded the landmark deal that recognized India as a legitimate nuclear power and opened the door to the sale of civilian nuclear technology to India. No single American move has done more to demonstrate Washington's respect for New Delhi as a rising and equal power. Now Obama, who came to office promising to respect U.S. allies, is backpedaling on that deal, to the growing chagrin of the Indians.
Obama appears largely oblivious to India's concerns. When the U.S. gathered its allies in the Afghan war at a London summit in January, Indian officials felt they were marginalized because their views were not sought or paid heed to in any fashion. They were even more annoyed by U.S. declarations of a "new dawn" in relations with India's old adversary, Pakistan, and the apparent trust American officials now place in Pakistan's willingness to fight the Taliban, both at home and in Afghanistan. Their feeling is that top Obama advisers, like national-security adviser James Jones and the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, have little experience in South Asia and have displayed remarkable naiveté in public statements.
More than once, Jones has argued that reducing Indo-Pakistani tensions would allow Pakistan to redeploy forces from its Indian border to the fight against the Taliban along the Afghan border. This is utterly fatuous in the view of Indian officials, who believe Pakistan is still dallying with the terrorists who target Indian interests in Kashmir and who orchestrated the devastating 2008 attacks on Mumbai. Despite all this, India has renewed talks with Pakistan and moved military personnel away from the de facto border in the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan has yet to reciprocate. As a result, some officials in New Delhi are livid about Jones's remarks. Holbrooke triggered a similar reaction in early March: after Afghan Taliban killed a number of Indian workers in Kabul, he blithely stated that the victims were not targeted on the basis of their nationality. Indian officials publicly dismissed Holbrooke's remarks as uninformed. Behind the scenes, they see his comments as part of a larger pattern of Obama administration insensitivity toward India.
India won't wait indefinitely for the White House to put the relationship back on track. Instead, it is cutting deals with nations that respect its significance. Russia, which had let old Soviet ties to India wither, is now dramatically renewing the connection. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently visited India and went home with multiple agreements, including deals on civilian nuclear energy and more than $1.5 billion worth of advanced naval aircraft. Obama's inattention is what makes Russia's advance possible.
It's hard to understand why Washington would continue to neglect such a valuable ally. India is a vast and growing market, a significant military player in South Asia, a growing force in global talks on climate change and nuclear nonproliferation. So instead of ignoring or publicly upbraiding India, Washington needs to find a way to avoid the acutely sensitive issue of Kashmir, while enhancing counterterrorism cooperation and actively seeking India's input into the larger discussion on Afghanistan. Doing so will help secure Washington's relationship with a nation that is too important to keep on the sidelines.
Ganguly, a professor of political science at Indiana University, Bloomington, is currently the Ngee Ann Kongsi chair in international relations at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.
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#3
Big O does not care about India or its markets or security. He identifies more with Pakistan, a country with multiple personality disorder. He wants to sink the US economy, he has no love for nations with a tradition of representative government. He is a chump that lives in his lefty ideological house of cards and embraces dictatorships. His record speaks for itself.
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#4
TOPIX > THE LEFT'S DESTINY IS CLOSELY INTERTWINED WITH INDIA'S, SAYS YERCHAY.
CPI Politburo Member Yerchay says SECULARISM + DEMOCRACY CANNOT BE SEPARATED, + that the LEFT must continue its fight agz the NEO-LIBERAL AGENDA, IMPERIALISM + COMMUNALISM as these latter only induce debilitating anarchies not in line with common, or universal peace, equality. + human dev-improvemnt. Also, that NO KIND OF WORKING OR SUSTAINABLE GOVT [in INDIA]CAN BE ACHIEVED WIDOUT THE LEFT.
And the USA???
IIUC SCOPE > India's campaign agz NAXALS = COMMIE MAOISTS is actually a STRUGGLE AGZ RIGHTIST NATIONALISTS/SOCIALISTS/ETHNICS, aka FASCISTS. IOW, by fighting agz NAXALS-MAOISTS India is indirectly waging a COVERT CLASSIC COMMIE STRUGGLE AGZ ITS RIGHTIST COMRADES-IN-SOCIALISM THATS [inetntionally]NOT BEING LABELED OR DESCRIBED AS A COMMUNIST STRUGGLE/WAR AGZ RIGHTISM???
#5
Now Obama, who came to office promising to respect U.S. allies, is backpedaling on that deal, to the growing chagrin of the Indians.
Join the club, Desis. Britain, Honduras, Poland, Czech Republic, Israel, Canada: it's a large club, and growing rapidly.
Also a prestigious club, to our nation's shame. Think about the opposite club, of nations with thuggish bandit regimes that wish us ill and that Barry Bower has sucked up to: Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the Palestinian pseudo-Authority...
At this rate, the decent world will soon recognize being stiffed or insulted by Barry as a badge of honor.
#6
ION "TESTING THE BAMMER", TOPIX > BAKU:SENIOR OFFCIAL SAYS AZERBAIJAN MAY RESORT TO WAR IFF KARABAKH DIPLOMACY COLLAPSES/FAILS, + AZERBAIJAN HAS THE RIGHT TO LIBERATE ITS TERRITORY BY ANY MEANS [includ War], + AZERBAIJAN FIRES OF NKH DEFENSE ARMY POSITIONS.
* SAME > WHY IS THERE NO CHECHEN GENOCIDE BILLS BEING CONSIDERED OR DEBATED BY THE US CONGRESS?
US Congresscritters enggae in intsnsive Recognition Debate as per Armenian Christian genocide, but NOT Chechen Muslim genocide [which ocurred thrice at hands of TSARIST RUSSIA + former USSR + now RUSSIA again]???
To him, Pakistan is the country of pheasant hunting and pretty sisters, with the beautiful sound of the muezzin echoing throughout the land... and not a single colonial oppressor to be seen from sunrise to sunset and back again.
#12
But, but, but I distinctly remember Barry said he was going to restore our position of respect in the world after the last administration which he inherited. And I remember he said he was going to get Malia and Sasha a dog from the pound (you know to try to relate to us commoners).
The "inherited Bush administration" is getting as boring and in bad taste as the line John F. Kerry always mentioned where he said every chance he got to mention he served in Viet Nam. Getting a little worn and old.
#13
Apparently Barry didn't catch the irony in (the original) JFK's line after he took responsibility for the Bay of Pigs: "Success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan."
This clown has botched nearly everything he's touched: the bank non-reform giveaway, the stimulus fiasco, the healthcare botchjob, Isr-Pal, missiles in Europe, Iran....
Summary:
Two Rooter embeds with the insurgents get wasted along with the insurgents. Rooters not happy, think their employees deserve special privileges.
The Masters of the Universe at Zerohedge are in meltdown mode. (Warning video is graphic)
#1
So what we really have here is proof of Reuters acting in concert with insurgents. Sounds like all Reuters employees need treated the same way the rest of the terrorists are.
#3
Next time Reuters wants to embed with Saddam's thugs or Al Qaeda mass murderers, be sure to wear flashing strobe lights and broadcast GPS coordinates so that trigger happy Americans can fire around your precious sense of entitlement.
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#4
This is from 2007.
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#5
Many of us felt Saeed was better shield than an armored vehicle.
#9
I dont understand, a fun-loving heavily armed iwackis and they just shoot em? Those yahoos really have their panties in a bunch over this? (Guns + RPGs = BAD Guys) we shoot them.
#10
A searing analysis of Wikileak's poor analyzing ability by Bill Roggio at The Weekly Standard. link
Wikileaks, the website devoted to publishing classified documents on the Internet, made a splash today with a video claiming to show that the U.S. military "murdered" a Reuters cameraman and other Iraqi "civilians" in Baghdad on July 12, 2007. But a careful watching of the video shows that the U.S. helicopter gun crews that attacked a group of armed men in the then Mahdi Army stronghold of New Baghdad was anything but "Collateral Murder," as Wikileaks describes the incident.
There are a couple of things to note in the video. First, Wikileaks characterizes the attack as the U.S. military casually gunning down Iraqis who were innocently gathering on the streets of New Baghdad. But the video begins somewhat abruptly, with a UAV starting to track a group of Iraqi males gathering on the streets. The voice of a U.S. officer is captured in mid-sentence. It would be nice to know what happened before Wikileaks decided to begin the video. The U.S. military claimed the Iraqis were killed after a gunbattle with U.S. and Iraqi security forces. It is unclear if any of that was captured on the strike footage. Here is what the U.S. military had to say about the engagement in a July 2007 press release:
Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, both operating in eastern Baghdad under the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, along with their Iraqi counterparts from the 1st Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st Division National Police, were conducting a coordinated raid as part of a planned operation when they were attacked by small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. Coalition Forces returned fire and called in attack aviation reinforcement.
There is nothing in that video that is inconsitent with the military's report. What you see is the air weapons team engaging armed men.
Second, note how empty the streets are in the video. The only people visible on the streets are the armed men and the accompanying Reuters cameramen. This is a very good indicator that there was a battle going on in the vicinity. Civilians smartly clear the streets during a gunfight.
Mr. Roggio continues through six points of analysis. Go read the whole thing. Be kind in your mind to those poor Wikileakers and their high self-esteem.
#11
I watched the whole thing. I'm always amazed at how stupid men in the area are when it comes to this kind of stuff. They bring their kids to combat scenes moments after something gets wasted. They come out of nowhere to gawk at buildings that are being targeted moments after they are hit by a missile. They casually hang out with people carrying automatic weapons when US helicopeters are flying overhead. In my mind, these are the times best spent indoors away from the windows. And waiting until the next morning before venturing out to survey the carnage, which will still be there.
Obama is acting as if he believes a nuclear Tehran is inevitable.
He doesn't appear to think that it will make any difference when Tehran has nukes, whereas it will make a big difference should Israel withdraw from all so-called settlements and stopped responding to Palestinian actions.
#1
The PA repor may declare a formal Palestinian State by 2011, one which will be seemingly defended first by HEZBOLLAH/HIZBULLAH, in addition the usual Paleo Militant Groups, + likely future NUKULAAR-ARMED ISLAMIST IRAN come 2012 or shortly thereafter.
Iff one believes that Year 2020 (+/-) is a rough fair benchmark for when the US will effec deploy GMD-TMD in various parts of the world, e.g. EAST EURO + SOUTH KOREA + MIDEAST, then 2020 should be deemed the Year which ISLAMIST IRAN MUST HAVE NUKES BY, i.e. 2012-2019 ASAP, OR RISK NUCTECHS, GEOPOL IRRELEVANCY WHICH IS COUNTER TO THE PREMISES OF 9-11 + JIHAD.
IOW, "GREAT POWER" SCOPE > IRAN MUST DEV NUKES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE US-ISRAEL ATTACK, INVADE IT OR NOT.
Greenpeace jumps the shark. And you are there... If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
#5
What's really fabulous about this are the comments from Andrew Davies, the "web producer", and "Juliette" (whoever she is) insisting that the author is rilly rilly peaceful, and he's talking about peaceful direct action, despite "we know where you live", and this gem (a quotation from someone else):
We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It's not working. We need an army of climate outlaws.
Got that? That's peaceful direct action talk, you ninnies.
Juliette appends that to the bottom of dozens of comments complaining about the violent rhetoric, as if repeated lying will make it true. Peaceful direct action. Peaceful direct action. Omm....
#6
ION NEWS KERALA > ALIENS HUNTING LIVESTOCK ON EARTH, [UK-Brit]EXPERTS SAY.
IIUC, apparently our SOLYENT GREAT GREAT GREAT TIMES TEN * * 26TH FUTURE HEIRS AND SUCCESSORS are trying to kidnap DNA, etc. + bring back all the TASTY FARM CRITTERS HUMANITY ASYMETRICALLY KILLED OFF IN ORDER TO SAVE THE EARTH FROM FLATULENCE-CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING, aka BOVINE/FARM FARTS???
Or t'was it WARMING-CAUSED FARM FLATULENCE?
Sub-aka SAVING EARTH'S GRASSES FOR HUNGRY NORTH KOREANS TO EAT???
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
