Whither The Fool?

Wherein the hypocrisy of the “world community” continues to astound.

It really is very simple.

Take no more prisoners.

It’s time to level the battle-field a bit.

AJ Strata via “The Strata-Sphere” (h/t Michelle Malkin) tells us that Congressman “Mad” Jack Murtha tried to intervene to keep the New York Times from printing their disgraceful story regarding the U.S. government’s terrorist financial tracking program.

Of course, this makes sense in an odd way. Murtha would rather not fight terrorism militarily, and this financial tracking program was a good option to military action.

Me, I don’t buy this theory.

I believe that Murtha is feeling the heat in an election year, and realizes he’s become the poster-boy for the anti-American Democrat Party rhetoric that many–even among the Dems–feel is about to make the upcoming vote go horribly wrong for them.

I think he doesn’t want any more red meat tossed to the conservative base who’re increasingly getting riled up enough to go vote him and his cohorts into minority status for yet another two year stint.

And I think the river of **** just got that much deeper for them.

[h/t to Ann Althouse who brought this article to my attention]

The NYT tells us (breathlessly, of course) that the GOP has “embraced the Iraq War as an election year issue.” In fact:

White House and Congressional officials say President Bush’s aides argued that it could be a politically fatal mistake for Republicans to walk away from the war in an election year.

Fantastic! I think they are right on with this issue.

Now, these aides need to help the GOP in an election year with a winning domestic issue. They need to tell them it would be a “politically fatal mistake” to walk away from control of our borders and enforcing our laws with respect to illegal aliens.

Oh, wait. It appears those particular aides have yet to be hired.

Several years ago, I wrote this. Yes, I am the author (and this is probably the last time I’ll give such an overt hint as to my “true identity,” mild-mannered or not).

I am not so sanguine about things, thirteen years later. I have come to recognize that much of my anguish was self-inflicted, that much of the estrangement from my children was self-caused. In fact, I’m a bit more critical of men, generally speaking, than I used to be.

However, we’re talking here about human beings, about the human condition. That’s never a simple thing, and no matter how we may try to simplify it in the abstract, human relations - and especially relations between the sexes - can’t easily be codified in a one-size-fits-all outline.

Nevertheless, continuing in the spirit of the notion that there are things that women, as wives and mothers, can do to promote a positive environment to nurture fatherhood, this article by Nicole Russell on American Thinker is recommended.

Ms. Russell concludes:

We have come a long way in society in technology, women’s rights, education, and science. But we are losing something most important. If our families disintegrate, these achievements will mean little. Keeping families together falls to both sexes: If women respect and love their men, they’ll most likely stay and raise a family with her.

That really should not be a concept open to debate. After all, it simply derives from the Golden Rule.

In the wake of the death of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi last week, it appears the rolling-up of al-Qaeda-in-Iraq is continuing. Now comes word of some captured documents that, if they are authentic, reveal some interesting facts about the state of that dying organization.

The money quote:

According to the summary, insurgents were being weakened by operations against them and by their failure to attract recruits.

There’s lots of other interesting stuff in there, particularly regarding their plan to foment war between the U.S. and Iran (”delusions of grandeur,” eh?) But I think that one sentence is the most interesting.

We have been told repeatedly by our own home-grown defeatists, that it is really impossible to win this war on terror as we have been pursuing it, that these are people who “believe” in an ideal and won’t be stopped by death or destruction, that when one al-Zarqawi falls, fifty more will rise to take his place (gee, I hope at least one of them knows the numbers to the bank accounts), etc.

If so, you’d think that they wouldn’t be running out of willing volunteers so soon.

I dunno, maybe it’s the rising gas prices. They’re having a hard time getting together enough dough fill the tank to go join jihad.

BRILLIANT.

Read The Jihadi Network’s Fatal Flaw by J. R. Dunn over on American Thinker. I’m sure Rush Limbaugh will comment on this today or soon after.

With respect to the determination of the enemy to destroy us all, as described by Mr. Dunn, we should never let down our guard. The next time a seditionist Democrat pulls the “terrorist threat is vastly overblown” card on you a la John Kerry and Al Gore, take your talking points from this article.

However, it gives a bright ray of hope. I’ve already opined in this fashion, though in not so many words, in this posting.

The crux of the argument is this, from the American Thinker article:

Consider a situation where you have perfect knowledge of a particular target – plans, defenses, weak points, personnel, everything you need to know to get inside and destroy the place. Now give that information to an eight-year-old. Or a dull-normal, or a junkie, or a schizophrenic. Or the average teenager, for that matter.

This problem is insurmountable [for al-Qaeda].

It is, indeed.

Despite the continuing Leftist mantra “hopeless quagmire, hopeless quagmire,” we are accomplishing what we set out to do, slowly and relentlessly, just as President Bush said we would. The efforts in Iraq are coming to a total success, just as the “island-hopping” strategy was successful against the Japanese Empire in World War II, even though we lost tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen in the process.

Of course, we’ve lost nowhere near that number this time.

But we can never forget that we started out with the loss of over 3,000 innocents on 9/11/01. The Democrats want us to disregard that and focus instead on this mythical “quagmire.” But the only people I see left with no hope are our enemies.

A: They have both shrunk a ponderous deficit while a Republican majority held Congress.

(h/t Don Singleton).

How could this be otherwise?

UPDATE

The future is being laid now. There will come a time when anyone who is openly critical of homosexual behavior will be declared an outlaw.