Hi there, !
Today Sat 05/18/2013 Fri 05/17/2013 Thu 05/16/2013 Wed 05/15/2013 Tue 05/14/2013 Mon 05/13/2013 Sun 05/12/2013 Archives
Rantburg
533725 articles and 1862087 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 69 articles and 165 comments as of 21:10.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT        Politix   
IMU takes credit for Quetta suicide bombing
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 4: Opinion
1 13:41 Skidmark [1] 
3 10:43 Iblis [5] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
0 [7]
0 []
7 19:59 Cretinous Humongous [1]
0 [9]
0 [8]
2 10:34 Shomolet Glinegum1863 [2]
1 10:09 Muggsy Mussolini1226 [7]
0 [6]
0 [2]
1 10:13 Frank G []
0 [2]
0 [5]
0 [1]
0 []
0 [8]
0 [3]
0 [1]
1 11:38 Pappy [7]
Page 2: WoT Background
0 [2]
0 [2]
0 [1]
0 [1]
0 [2]
0 [1]
8 20:09 Thing From Snowy Mountain [2]
0 [5]
1 16:03 Alaska Paul [2]
7 22:41 Redneck Jim [5]
2 10:52 Redneck Jim [1]
1 02:58 JosephMendiola [4]
1 13:39 Pappy [2]
0 [8]
0 [6]
0 [6]
0 [2]
1 17:30 Shipman [2]
2 12:19 g(r)omgoru [6]
1 06:18 g(r)omgoru [2]
0 [2]
0 [3]
0 [5]
4 22:25 texhooey [8]
3 22:02 tu3031 [11]
Page 3: Non-WoT
2 22:41 Rambler in Virginia [5]
0 [1]
0 [2]
0 [1]
8 19:56 tipper [4]
0 [2]
16 22:23 Redneck Jim [3]
0 [6]
2 12:09 Frank G [2]
1 10:03 Shomolet Glinegum1863 [7]
5 21:58 tu3031 [4]
3 15:47 Rambler in Virginia [1]
13 20:14 Rjschwarz [13]
11 14:47 Barbara [1]
Page 6: Politix
0 [1]
3 22:01 Redneck Jim [4]
8 22:05 Redneck Jim [4]
13 16:45 AlanC [1]
9 19:49 Secret Master [2]
6 13:48 Pappy [1]
1 12:02 AlanC [2]
3 12:39 Whock de Medici1307 [2]
10 23:10 Procopius2k [5]
4 21:21 RandomJD [3]
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The Lesser of Syria’s Evils
There are no good options in the civil war in Syria but it has led to a keen debate among the professional echelon tasked with advising policymakers in Israel. This debate has been reflected in a more subdued public conversation and occasionally in spectacular events—like the bombing of Syrian military sites around Damascus. So, what are the dividing lines in this Israeli debate? Does Israel back any side in the war in Syria? And what would be an optimal outcome from the Israeli point of view?

Posted by: bernardz || 05/15/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good to watch for when Big O refuses to surrender the office.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2013 4:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Personally, I cheer for bodycounts & damage to infrastructure.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2013 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Call me sentimental, but I'd like to see this thing end with Assad's head on a stake.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/15/2013 10:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Get Up Off The Floor
By Sarah Hoyt, best known for her science fiction writing. g(r)omgoru has posted a number of interesting opinion pieces from her blog, and hers is one of the sites I make a point of reading several times a week. Also, she posts a chapter from her latest work-in-progress just about every Friday, which is great fun.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2013 06:34 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice read and a good rallying cry, "quit whining!"
But there are just two blog-reader audiences for this, 1) couch-potato surfers and 2) those of us that have risen as best we can.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2013 13:41 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
41[untagged]
4Govt of Pakistan
4Arab Spring
4Govt of Syria
3al-Qaeda in Arabia
2TTP
2Jamaat-e-Islami
1Govt of Iran
1Govt of Iraq
1Commies
1Govt of Sudan
1Boko Haram
1Hezbollah
1Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
1al-Shabaab
1Fatah

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2013-05-15
  IMU takes credit for Quetta suicide bombing
Tue 2013-05-14
  Nigeria Court Convicts Iranian of Illegal Arms Shipment
Mon 2013-05-13
  Tunisia Police Disperse Salafists in Two Cities
Sun 2013-05-12
  Pak: Dozens killed in poll day violence
Sat 2013-05-11
  Car bombs in Turkey near Syria border killed more than 30
Fri 2013-05-10
  Syria troops, Hizbullah advancing on Qusayr
Thu 2013-05-09
  Nigerian cult ambush kills 46 policemen
Wed 2013-05-08
  Lashkar-i-Jhangvi's Karachi chief arrested
Tue 2013-05-07
  22 dead as police clash with Bangladesh Islamists
Mon 2013-05-06
  Tanzania police: 4 Saudis arrested after blast
Sun 2013-05-05
  Explosions shake Damascus, Syria blames Israel
Sat 2013-05-04
  Egypt: Mob lynches son of Muslim Brotherhood leader
Fri 2013-05-03
  Sarabjit Singh dies in Pak Jail
Thu 2013-05-02
  Brahimi to quit as Syria peace envoy: Diplomats
Wed 2013-05-01
  Three people arrested in Marathon bombings


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.
3.129.210.17
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (18)    WoT Background (25)    Non-WoT (14)    (0)    Politix (10)