Posted by
Soldier Dad on Friday, August 11, 2006 6:22:51 PM
The Good: I just couldn’t choose today. We caught some bad guys on a few fronts of the war on Islamist facism. I urge you to read the excellent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today entitled, “Mass-Murder Foiled,” about the apprehension of 20-plus terrorists in Britain yesterday. The WSJ confirmed yesterday’s digression of mine saying, “The plot was foiled because a large number of people were under surveillance concerning their spending, travel and communications. Which leads us to wonder if Scotland Yard would have succeeded if the ACLU or the New York Times had first learned the details of such surveillance programs.”
On a more local front,
Rich Galen reported a
much less publicized event in Marietta, Ohio. Two men were arrested after a Radio Shack employee found it suspicious that they wanted to buy six cell phones without giving their contact information. They later admitted to buying around 600 phones to send overseas as detonators for the bombs that kill our soldiers.
[I DIGRESS…]By the way, even though they were born in the US, their names were not Bob Hunter and Mike Smith. Their names are Osama Sabhi Abulhassan and Ali Houssaiky. Seriously people, are we seeing a pattern yet???[END DIGRESSION]The Bad: I’m not going to be able to bring my latte or lip-gloss on the airplane anymore. Maybe Hollywood will finally join the war against terrorists now. Oh never mind, they all take private jets anyway – in their constant quest to fight global warming, of course.
The Ugly: Ok, back to very serious things – Mike Wallace. The poor old man left his Ensure and pudding in retired-news-anchor-land (honestly, what does he do without a camera on him?) to interview President Ahmadinejad of Iran. A
column in today’s Human Events reads, “The reasons why it is asinine in the extreme to conduct a serious interview with [Ahmadinejad] are too numerous to enumerate, but let’s just sprinkle a few to garnish our point. One, he is a whack-a-doodle. Two, he probably is a puppet without real power under the imams. Three, to the extent that he has power he is a menace. Four, his regime is currently fighting a proxy war through Hezbollah and it is critically important to avoid conferring legitimacy. Five, he is being told by the UN that if he does not stand down on his nuclear program, he will be forever banned from polite company; some American news agency has no business sending the opposite signal.”
Wallace tells Fox News, “[Ahmadinejad] comes across as more rational than I had expected.” Iran’s president has been quoted as saying, “Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury,” that “Israel must be wiped off the map,” that there is “no significant need for the United States.” He yearns for a “world without Zionism” and asks, “could [9/11] be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services - or their extensive infiltration?”
Hello Wallace!!! Put your glasses and hearing aids back on – of COURSE he came across as more rational than you expected. After those quotes, a rabid wolverine on crack would come across as rational.
After taunting our President on CBS’ dime, Ahmadinejad condescendingly says, “Today is the era of thoughts, dialogue and cultural exchanges."
[I DIGRESS…]Note that the man doesn’t bring up his own nuclear proliferation program, or the fact that he’s thumbed his nose at the Useless Nations Security Council’s directives. The nerve of this guy.[END DIGRESSION]We’ve got a squadron of F-18s and B-2s that are probably ready to do that cultural exchange right now.