[Mil.com] Estonia may be one of NATO's smallest members, but its air force commander had the strongest words for Russian aggression in Ukraine at a gathering of allied military leaders.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's "war against Ukraine did not really come as a surprised to us," Col. Jaak Tarien, commander of the Estonian Air Force, told an audience at the U.S. Air Force Association's 2014 Air and Space Conference.
Speaking with a group of NATO military leaders, Tarien reminded how Soviet Russia launched a similar operation in Estonia in 1924.
"Soviet Russia sent infiltrators to our young republic. They tried to rally local people to demonstrate against our government," he said.
The Estonian people did not want to go along.
"So on the night of Dec. 1, they tried to take over key government buildings and take over the post office was the key to their success because then they were supposed to send a telegraph to Moscow asking, in the name of a newly formed government, to send in assistance troops which were already forming up on our eastern border," Tarien said. "Sounds familiar doesn't it?
Bill Clinton was ambiguous about the definition of �"sex�" and "is". Barack Obama is uncertain about what the definition of "war" might be.
...Democrats could defend Bill Clinton's need to lie about what they termed his private life, but even they can�'t defend an administration that plays Clintonesque word games with something as big as a war.
We are currently not in a war with the Islamic State, which according to this administration is neither Islamic nor a State, with a strategy of possibly destroying them (unless that doesn't work out and then we'll settle for degrading them) and we are backed in this non-war by a coalition of Muslim nations that can't as of yet be named, but which have possibly pledged to help us with certain undetermined things.
...Obama was guiding Americans away from the awareness that we were in a war. In wars, someone wins and someone loses. If he refused to call it a war, maybe we wouldn't realize that we were losing.
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Certainly plausible, tho. Didn't the same thing happen with some of the Gitmo detainees who promised to play nice if they were let go? And yes, evidence would be nice.
#5
Ag, silly alarmists. Those lads all have nice, door-to-door sales jobs now. That GITMO box on the detention sheets was simply filler. They've all been properly rehabilitated, you'll see.
[DAWN] AS reports pour in of the havoc wrought by this season's flood -- of lives lost, property washed away, livestock drowned, crops damaged and infrastructure destroyed -- unbearable is the feeling that this is less due to nature's wrath than human folly. Much of the misery caused to the people could have been avoided.
This despite the fact that some significant steps have been taken over the past few decades to improve the country's disaster management capacity. Gone are the days when disasters were addressed by a tiny desk in the Cabinet Division and all that was required was waiving of land revenue/irrigation charges for the affected farmers.
Now we have disaster management authorities at the centre and in the provinces. The defence forces, the army in particular, are still largely responsible for rescuing the marooned people. But one notices that Rescue 1122 is also quite active -- to the extent its resources permit -- though one misses the civil defence and municipal rescue services that used to be active up to the 1960s.
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[WAPO] BLUF: An air-only counterterrorism effort will fail because the Islamic State is not, as Obama claimed in his address, "a terrorist organization, pure and simple." The group governs a swath of territory the size of the United Kingdom. It rules cities. It collects taxes. It controls natural resources and is bringing in $3 million a day in oil revenue. It has a conventional army -- one that has won battles against other conventional armies. As Obama's own defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, has put it, "They're beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess, they are tremendously well-funded. This is beyond anything that we've seen. So we must prepare for everything."
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So how many generals and senior bird colonels have been forced to resign by nowhere man and his political officers?
Now, according to Drudge, nowhere man intends to "personally sign off" on all bombing targets in Syrian.
That is a guarantee of ineffectiveness with the now you see them now you don't aspect of tactical targets...and oh by the way, do you want to interrupt him for permission while he is lining up a putt?
That is also an indication the current administration is not serious about this campaign against ISIL. It will come down to some like Libya where nowhere gets credit for participating while other countries do all of the heavy lifting and bleeding.
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Obama says "BUSH, BUSH," we know he lies.
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"Now, according to Drudge, nowhere man intends to "personally sign off" on all bombing targets in Syrian."
Just like Johnson and Vietnam. Must be a DemocRat thing.
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Barbara, it's also like Carter but he's a Repub.....oh wait, he's a Democrat too.
By jove I think you're on to something. Democrats are arrogant control freaks.
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Approval targets is he? That means he's probably also reviewing bomb damage assessments (BDA). After doing the same in AFG and Pakistan with his drone campaign, I can't help but wonder what his mental state is. Anyone who actually enjoys that type of thing over an extended period of time...... well, there might be a problem or two in the bell tower.
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Given how the yaahoos in ISIL like those Toyotas with the 14.5mm AA on the back and such, todays armed encampment / mobile missile launch site is tomorrows suq. You wonder who is advising him since just about every piece of equipment ISIL has has "mobile" in its nomenclature.
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I forgot the flyboys favorite term "targets of opportunity" given the time difference between Washington and Aleppo. Our pilots could be going at it hammer and tongs while nowhere man is at a fundraiser...you want to interrupt the 20 minute speech to get his approval to bomb a column of BTR-60s?
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[SPECTATOR.ORG] The more violence that comes out of the Islamic world, the more that the Left insists Islam is a "religion of peace." The rise of ISIS has inspired Western leaders to redouble their attempts at reeducation. Appointing themselves Islamic authorities, they declare that ISIS is "not Islamic."
These Western leaders are far more protective of Islam than their own historic religion. They are willing to subject Christianity to scrutiny for its supposedly reactionary teachings, even as they hold that the doctrines of Islam are flawless and beyond criticism.
At Yale this week, student groups that typically sponsor critics of Christianity denounced the appearance of a critic of Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, on campus. Had Ali arrived to blame Ray Rice's domestic violence on patriarchal American culture, she would have been welcomed with open arms. But, instead, she came bearing a message they didn't want to hear: that Islamic culture mistreats women. As a victim of genital mutilation and forced marriage at the hands of Muslims in Somalia, Hirsi Ali is understandably baffled by the Left's enthusiasm for Islam.
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Once you master the belief that "gender is cultural", "Islam Religion of Peace" is small change.
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NFL commentator James Brown was applauded by the Left for his wild attempt to connect the Ray Rice incident to a sexist culture in the NFL: "When a guy says you throw a ball like a girl or you're a sissy, it reflects an attitude that devalues women and attitudes that will eventually manifest in some fashion."
This is a man who has drunk deeply of the the Kool-Aid.
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I've seen a deader or two, but recently I have been sent some of the most gruesome photographs I have ever seen in my entire life, of ISIS butchery of Christians. These ISIS people are absolutely evil.
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One day I might try to understand why the left is so abysmally stupid and blind about the religion of peace. Just not today and probably not tomorrow. I've tried arguing with people on the left. It is generally a waste of time--sort of like "rasslin" with pigs in mud. Pigs love it and you end up getting soiled.
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[DAWN] AS reports pour in of the havoc wrought by this season's flood -- of lives lost, property washed away, livestock drowned, crops damaged and infrastructure destroyed -- unbearable is the feeling that this is less due to nature's wrath than human folly. Much of the misery caused to the people could have been avoided.
[SPECTATOR.ORG] The more violence that comes out of the Islamic world, the more that the Left insists Islam is a "religion of peace." The rise of ISIS has inspired Western leaders to redouble their attempts at reeducation. Appointing themselves Islamic authorities, they declare that ISIS is "not Islamic."
