Why do these guys hate the military: A military investigation has concluded that American personnel made significant errors in carrying out some of the airstrikes in western Afghanistan on May 4 that killed dozens of Afghan civilians, according to a senior American military official. The official said the civilian death toll would probably have been …
Foreign Affairs
Red Province, Blue Province
Harold Myerson of the Washington Post is shrill about our new economic overlords’ skill at learning from America’s Best Capitalists(tm): The military units that rolled into Beijing 20 years ago today came chiefly from the sticks. Isolated by geography and indoctrination from the liberalism flowing through Chinese cities and packed into Tiananmen Square, they were …
The Free Tibet Lobby Flexes
Remember those stories last week about the unified stand on Israeli settlements? Ben Smith says it might be eroding: But even a key defender of Obama’s Mideast policy, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), is seeking to narrow the administration’s definition of “settlement” to take pressure off Obama. And the unusual criticism by congressional Democrats of the …
Soldier Dead in Arkansas
Another crazy person with insane beliefs appears to have killed a a soldier in Arkansas: A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one, police said Monday. “This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and …
Why does David Petraeus hate America?
Via the Washington Monthly, David Petraeus has several comments in support of Obama’s policies on Gitmo and enhanced interrogation. Here’s his comments on the closing of Gitmo: “Gitmo has caused us problems; there’s no question about it. I oversee a region in which the existence of Gitmo has indeed been used by the enemy against …
Israel and the Settlements
A pretty fascinating piece in Foreign Policy by Laura Rozen about the current administration’s message to Netanyahu and the rationale behind it: Last night, shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told journalists that the Obama administration “wants to see a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions,” …
Keep Bombing Until They See Things Our Way
This is, as far as I can tell, the only public pronouncement from the administration regarding the bombing missions in Af-Pak that are producing horrifying numbers of civilian deaths: U.S. airstrikes aimed at al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan have been “very effective,” with few civilian deaths as a result, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday …
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