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I got a very nice comment from Darren Hutchinson thanking me for my links. Let me say louder what I said in the reply comment. The tag Honorable left is made for a guy like him who doesn’t check his principles at the door when his side is in power.
Dissenting Justice is being added to the blogroll and I would recommend keeping an eye over there. I’m sure we will disagree a lot over the next few years but that’s how you learn and form an honest opinion on things.
…the New Minutemen
A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.
Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to recruiting the women and orchestrating dozens of attacks.
Hot air reports and comments:
It’s a particularly despicable scam. Jassam didn’t just step in as some sort of Islamist rape counselor to advise suicide as an answer to shame. She arranged the rapes of dozens of women, and then presented herself as an advisor to the victims to recruit them for suicide missions. It’s one of the most ghoulish plots I’ve ever known, and a stunning betrayal of her own gender.
I’m reminded of what Lincoln said concerning the bill passed in the south at the end of the war authorizing Negro troops. He said we have to get to the bottom of the manpower well of the foe. I guess they are getting there.
This would never get reported while Bush was still there.
…but if you read only one thing today read Michael Yon’s letter exclusively on Instapundit. Key Excerpt:
The idea of a two-state solution, once popular with many Israelis, is evaporating. More and more Israelis are coming to believe that any appeasement with the Palestinians is merely a reward for terrorism. And so it is. The Palestinians have become prisoners by their own hand. The hand that builds the bombs, wields the guns, and welds the rockets, has caused a fence to be built around them.
They are isolated and imprisoned. But it’s not only Israel who’s done this. The Gaza Strip borders Egypt, and Egypt has done the same. The terrorists are tunneling like rats and the Egyptians and Israelis are trying to locate and destroy the tunnels under their respective fence lines. Who wants the Palestinians? If the Palestinians truly were a peaceful lot, victims only of Israel, one might think that they would have free entry into Egypt. But they do not.
Yon is the best single reporter in the world on the war on terror.
UPDATE: His bottom line is unfortunately correct at least at this time.
It simply does not make sense for us to support a Palestinian state, when at every turn they demonstrate that they will simply become more powerful, richer terrorists, with longer range rockets.
My greatest regret with HiWired is we were unable to pull off the podcast with Yon. We traded e-mails kept missing each other. It was before he was well known and would have been a solid exclusive.
… this is a great way to illustrate how the press and others look at President Obama.
I mean cripes my next door neighbor has a new sticker on her car “Yes we did”. I’ve seen people keep bumper stickers on after winning, I’ve never seen a victory sticker before.
