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1. Rick Ballard:

A great piece by Mr. Ajami. The Gaddis speech that you cited earlier in the week should be read in conjunction.

“The non-stop reactionary swill” will not pause. Just think of it as a series of orders emanating from the Fuehrer’s bunker to armies already in captivity. Delusory reporting to illusory customers.

May 21, 2005 - 10:42 pm 2. Doug:

“Delusory reporting to illusory customers.”

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But W & Co’s gotta get reality to outlast it.

…Strange thought dept:

I found myself hoping Hillary would read it!

…just in case.

Strange that the Democrats could be so screwed up that anyone would look at it that way.

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Leslie Gelb of all people.

Guess it’s time to Google him.

May 22, 2005 - 12:10 am 3. lindenen:

Norman Mailer is a real nutter. That’s all I can say.

May 22, 2005 - 12:48 am 4. Ron:

What a difference between the stories found in the editorial section of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. An article in the WSJ by Fouad Ajami about the rise of liberty in countries which had none before George Bush. Stories about people regaining freedom is always uplifting, it make you feel good to read something like that and then there is the New York Times with their old hate America screed penned by the descendants of Walter Duranty. Here is their front page:

“Army Faltered in Investigating Detainee Abuse

By TIM GOLDEN

Investigators initially advised closing the case of two deaths at Bagram, Afghanistan, without bringing any criminal charges.

ÔøΩ Interactive Feature: The Bagram File

ÔøΩ Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates’ Deaths

ÔøΩ Karzai Demands Custody of Afghan Prisoners”

Just what is the matter with these people, why do they despise this country so much that they try to fan the flames of hatred against us. We can’t fight on two fronts and win a war that must be won, how can we be successful with an enemy in front while their 5th column is in our homeland.

May 22, 2005 - 1:11 am 5. Doug:

“Liberalism” has become a mental disorder.

May 22, 2005 - 1:21 am 6. Doug:

May 21, 2005

“THERE IS A THREAT. YOU NEED TO ACT.” Here’s a post from RedState on how to comment (you can do it by email) on the FEC’s proposal to regulate bloggers. [Relocated to keep this at the top a while longer.]

UPDATE: I should stress just how bipartisan and broad-based the blogospheric resistance is.

posted at 11:08 PM by Glenn Reynolds .

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BUT, Unfortunately Glenn does not give this warning and Advice:

FEC Comments – There are criteria for submitting By: Gun Trash

Let me add something, please. I did that and received a reply to the effect my comment couldn’t be considered as it did not comply with the rules as specified in the Federal Register from April 4, 2005.

They kindly attached a 13 page PDF extract for my reading pleasure.

You might want to double check the criteria before you pen your email comment or it’ll likely go into the virtual round file.

—One other thing.

If you’re going to comment to the FEC, why not continue and comment to your Congressman and Senator and ask them to co-sponsor HR. 1606 and/or S. 678. These two bills will exempt the Internet from any FEC rules.

And where did I find out about these bills? Why, right here at Red State, Apr 22, 05, in Online Freedom of Speech Act Update post.

. ___REDSTATE___

May 22, 2005 - 1:38 am 7. Doug:

Red State was down when last tried, Maybe the Glenn link did it.

Too bad he doesn’t have that warning by Gun Trash.

DC – A barrier to Entrance by Human Intelligence.

May 22, 2005 - 1:41 am 8. Doug:

Some good Gelb links here w/his bio.

Including 10 day trip to Iraq.

. Leslie Gelb

May 22, 2005 - 3:40 am 9. Doug:

Newsweek meets 21st century war .

Austin Bay

May 22, 2005 - 3:55 am 10. jedrury:

Roger:

The Arab Spring may be one of this country’s finest moments but let’s not forget the unmasking of the mainstream media’s hypocrisy by the seismic shift in American political thinking and action.

A seminal moment in American politics which can not be permitted to pass as an unrecognized event.

May 22, 2005 - 5:52 am 11. RBMN:

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”, Katrina vanden Heuvel said, released prisoners and detainees are “confirming” the Newsweek story, and much worse–torture. She’s VERY concerned, because obviously, this type of outrageous US military brutality comes right from the top–Rumsfeld, etcÖ.

Can America survive such LOVE for our military?

Katrina makes me want to throw up. How she deserves that type of forum on ABC and other places, I just don’t understand. That kind of talk gets more Americans killed, and she doesn’t care as long as it makes Bush and other Republicans suffer politically.

Oh yes, one more thing. People like her–people critical of the Administration–are being “intimidated” into silence. That statement was the most precious.

May 22, 2005 - 7:24 am 12. Captain Hate:

Katrina’s very confused and geographically challenged. She keeps telling people she lives in Harlem and not in the upper West Side. If she can’t get that right…..

Plus she looks like she’s auditioning for a Ramones cover band.

May 22, 2005 - 8:51 am 13. dougf:

“Oh yes, one more thing. People like her–people critical of the Administration–are being “intimidated” into silence.”

The real problem is that these useless creatures do not know the ‘meaning’ of words.Katrina who frankly requires years of serious therapy in order to process a coherent thought,has no clue what ‘intimidation’ really means in the REAL world.

In too much of the real world(ie.much of the planet outside Manhattan),’intimidation arrives to the sound of boots in the street,a vicious beating by means of introduction,and more than credible threats against anyone or anything you might happen to value.I wonder how long Katrina would last against true ‘intimidation’of which she now believes herself a victim ?

By using these stupid rote phrases she denigates the courage and suffering of those who really are ‘intimiadated’.

May 22, 2005 - 9:39 am 14. erp:

Katrina, a large legacy lady, is editor of Nation magazine which probably has fewer readers per month than Roger’s blog. She’s married to Soviet “expert,” Stephen F. Cohen, formerly on the faculty at Princeton and now at NYU. For you readers who are not familiar with the hierarchy of institutions of higher learning, in academe, Princeton and NYU aren’t, to put it politely, on the same planet.

This apparent decline in his former star quality came soon after the fall of the USSR which he completely missed and which rumor had it, he had to read about in the newspapers.

For years he was the go-to guy when the nets wanted someone with credentials to tell us how the Soviet Union was so far ahead of us that we could never hope to catch up never mind surpass, etc. His academic stutter was perfection itself, but if he ever said anything sensible, I didn’t hear about it.

It would hard to find two more clueless people.

May 22, 2005 - 10:17 am 15. Terrye:

The ironic thing is that if the Bushies had found an island to put these people on, hid the very fact of their existence and then just shot them when they ceased to be useful they could have avoided all of this.

Galloway said the worst day of his life was the day the Soviet Union collapsed. And for years they disappeared people without any real bellyaching from the likes of George and Katrina.

If either one of them had their way Saddam would be still be cutting off people’s tongues, so why should I care what they think?

If they will believe anything these folks tell them then they are too stupid to worry about.

May 22, 2005 - 11:56 am 16. Terrye:

Oh yes, I loved the Ajami oped. It is nice to get a perspective from someone who actually knows what he is talking about.

After unlike so many of the people bitching and moaning out there, this is his area of expertise.

May 22, 2005 - 11:58 am 17. Kyda Sylvester:

I love this essay. There are such momentous events unfolding before our very eyes with so many stories that beg telling. You’d think journos would be falling all over themselves in their attempts to tell those stories. You’d think.

I met Syrians in the know who admitted that the fear of American power, and the example of American forces flushing Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole, now drive Syrian policy. They hang on George Bush’s words in Damascus, I was told: the rulers wondering if Iraq was a crystal ball in which they could glimpse their future.

Gee, who saw that coming? Oh yeah, just about everybody here.

May 22, 2005 - 1:39 pm 18. Syl:

How timely that just a few hours ago I re-read Ron Rosenbaum’s piece “Goodbye, Left-Wing Idiocy”:

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3754

wherein he explains to me, succinctly, the reason Katrina et al can never be moved by Saddam’s and jihadist atrocities. If one simply dismisses the Holocaust and communist murder as unimportant, then it follows that argument on rational grounds will never succeed with them.

I think this is why George Bush is perceived as a greater threat than militant Islam because Bush has opened our eyes to the hypocrisy of the Left, the internationalists, the one-worlders, the UN and ICC lovers. And, to add insult to injury, the van den Heuvel’s of the world are being rebuffed. They believe it’s suppression by intimidation whereas, in reality, they’re simply being disagreed with.

Katrina’s world is crumbling and it’s all Bush’s fault. Fine with me.

May 22, 2005 - 3:31 pm 19. Ron Wrght:

Roger and all,

Great OP-ED! Maybe President Bush will finally get some recognition for his fundamental shift in America’s strategic foreign policy in the ME.

Here’s a link to a previous essay on this shift and a full copy of the WSJ OP-ED for those who haven’t signed up for WSJ’s Online Opinion Journal.

Link Here

May 22, 2005 - 9:36 pm 20. Buddy Larsen:

Judging from her facial expression, I think Katrina’s problems stem from an overdeveloped olefactory capacity. Everything stinks, and she is quite pained over it.

May 23, 2005 - 9:17 am

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