Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement ("on politics, crime, science, foreign affairs, and maritime and military matters in the United States, Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East.") shares, in closing, a criticism of the last Pres. Bush.
Money quote(s):
" (Not particularly reassured by Putin’s taking personal charge of the investigation, given that the former KGB agent heads a government that appears determined to restore some of the worst practices of historic Russian totalitarianism. Theoretically a show of sincerity with personal responsibility. Some people think George Bush’s biggest miscalculation was misjudging the intentions of Saddam Hussein. I think he got those exactly right, and it was Putin’s intentions that he sorely misjudged.)"
Showing posts with label Jules Crittenden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jules Crittenden. Show all posts
Monday, April 12, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
re: "Flying While Diplomatically Immune"
Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement ("on politics, crime, science, foreign affairs, and maritime and military matters in the United States, Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East") takes a moderate stance.
Money quote(s):
"Waiting for all the usual suspects to denounce the anti-Muslim sentiments inherent in a Qatari diplomat’s sarcastic jokes about lighting his shoes on fire after causing a panic by smoking in an aircraft restroom, mocking the efforts of those tasked with preventing Islamic extremists from blowing planes out of the sky."
Yeah, there's certainly been some of that.
"Sounds more like an irresponsible provocation by someone who apparently doesn’t understand what serious business this is for everyone who flies, including all law-abiding Muslims who don’t care to blow out of the sky and don’t enjoy being subjected to a high degree of official scrutiny any more than the rest of the flying public does."
Just like every American who travels by air, I'm subjected to the same security kabuki a la TSA, the increased restrictions while in the air, and I don't like it much either. But I aim to at least pretend to willing and cheerful compliance. They can't make me act like an idiot child after all, no matter how much they treat us like idiot children.
"(F)rivolous actions of the sort this Qatari diplomat is reported to have engaged in could be damaging to the good relations with Muslims and Muslim nations that our government and institutions have worked hard to maintain in difficult times, going back to George Bush’s remarks in the first days after 9/11. Fortunately, Americans have largely limited themselves to reasonable responses to real threats."
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"The Qatari diplomat wasn’t being targeted while minding his own business. He was being targeted while reportedly doing the equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater."
Money quote(s):
"Waiting for all the usual suspects to denounce the anti-Muslim sentiments inherent in a Qatari diplomat’s sarcastic jokes about lighting his shoes on fire after causing a panic by smoking in an aircraft restroom, mocking the efforts of those tasked with preventing Islamic extremists from blowing planes out of the sky."
Yeah, there's certainly been some of that.
"Sounds more like an irresponsible provocation by someone who apparently doesn’t understand what serious business this is for everyone who flies, including all law-abiding Muslims who don’t care to blow out of the sky and don’t enjoy being subjected to a high degree of official scrutiny any more than the rest of the flying public does."
Just like every American who travels by air, I'm subjected to the same security kabuki a la TSA, the increased restrictions while in the air, and I don't like it much either. But I aim to at least pretend to willing and cheerful compliance. They can't make me act like an idiot child after all, no matter how much they treat us like idiot children.
"(F)rivolous actions of the sort this Qatari diplomat is reported to have engaged in could be damaging to the good relations with Muslims and Muslim nations that our government and institutions have worked hard to maintain in difficult times, going back to George Bush’s remarks in the first days after 9/11. Fortunately, Americans have largely limited themselves to reasonable responses to real threats."
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"The Qatari diplomat wasn’t being targeted while minding his own business. He was being targeted while reportedly doing the equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater."
Monday, March 1, 2010
re: "A Wishful Truth"
Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement addresses an address by former Vice President Gore.
Money quote(s):
"You can’t wish climate change away. It’s been changing constantly for 4.5 billion years now."
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"Here’s my plan. Spend whatever is left of that stimulus dough to actually stimulate the economy by giving every person who pays U.S. taxes an American-made supercharged V-8."
Money quote(s):
"You can’t wish climate change away. It’s been changing constantly for 4.5 billion years now."
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"Here’s my plan. Spend whatever is left of that stimulus dough to actually stimulate the economy by giving every person who pays U.S. taxes an American-made supercharged V-8."
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
re: "RealHotdogPolitik Seriously Reconsidered"
Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement ("on politics, crime, science, foreign affairs, and maritime and military matters in the United States, Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East") went negative.
Money quote(s):
"Look, I’m trying to keep the criticism on a constructive level, but I’m rapidly losing confidence in this administration’s ability to manage even something as simple as a Fourth of July picnic without turning it into an international embarrassment."
But ended on a more positive note:
"(T)hey are still our embassies, and as long as there is even a remote a chance any mullahs are going to show up, I think it is important to have a lot of hot babses in American flag bikinis on hand. Don’t care what their politics are, don’t care if they’re French, as long as they’re sporting stars and stripes."
Money quote(s):
"Look, I’m trying to keep the criticism on a constructive level, but I’m rapidly losing confidence in this administration’s ability to manage even something as simple as a Fourth of July picnic without turning it into an international embarrassment."
But ended on a more positive note:
"(T)hey are still our embassies, and as long as there is even a remote a chance any mullahs are going to show up, I think it is important to have a lot of hot babses in American flag bikinis on hand. Don’t care what their politics are, don’t care if they’re French, as long as they’re sporting stars and stripes."
Sunday, August 16, 2009
re: "Hot Dog Diplomacy"
Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement ("on politics, crime, science, foreign affairs, and maritime and military matters in the United States, Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East") had some wonderful Independence Day reception suggestions for our embassies abroad.
Money quote(s):
"The notion of idly breaking bread with the representatives of men who are killing their own people, with no sign they intend to stop, in addition to having killed a lot of ours, on a holiday devoted to celebrating freedom.
A great opportunity for revolution-minded Iranian diplomats and their families to defect, I suppose. Only one problem. Could they trust the Obama admin not to throw them back?"
Ouch.
"So what are the chances any Iranian diplomat is going to be allowed to attend an event that is all about throwing off the yoke of tyranny? Unless the mullahs decide it would be fun to make the Americans look bad with a lot of chummy international photo ops while people are being killed in the streets of Tehran?
I recommend the United States embassies and career diplomats that are being compelled to go along with this travesty mullah-proof their Fourth of July events by inviting a lot of girls in American flag bikinis, just to be on the safe side."
For any who are unclear on the concept: BSFW (i.e., barely safe for work).
Money quote(s):
"The notion of idly breaking bread with the representatives of men who are killing their own people, with no sign they intend to stop, in addition to having killed a lot of ours, on a holiday devoted to celebrating freedom.
A great opportunity for revolution-minded Iranian diplomats and their families to defect, I suppose. Only one problem. Could they trust the Obama admin not to throw them back?"
Ouch.
"So what are the chances any Iranian diplomat is going to be allowed to attend an event that is all about throwing off the yoke of tyranny? Unless the mullahs decide it would be fun to make the Americans look bad with a lot of chummy international photo ops while people are being killed in the streets of Tehran?
I recommend the United States embassies and career diplomats that are being compelled to go along with this travesty mullah-proof their Fourth of July events by inviting a lot of girls in American flag bikinis, just to be on the safe side."
For any who are unclear on the concept: BSFW (i.e., barely safe for work).
Friday, May 8, 2009
re: "Because We Have Nothing Better To Keep Obsessing About"
Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement just marvels.
Money quote(s):
"What a strangely marvelous thing it must be to be an enemy of the United States. Feted and exalted as folk heroes by Euro-weenies and the American left, lavishly rewarded by the United States itself upon eventual ultimate defeat, with a well-financed, no-heavy-lifting assist on the propaganda front.
For the record: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed exactly no lawsuits against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Saudi banking system, Pakistan’s ISI, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraq’s former Baathist regime, the former Soviet regime, the current Cuban one, or any number of other associated entities for denying thousands of Americans their civil liberties or being complicit in the denial of a massive pile of American civil liberties up to and including life and the pursuit of happiness, though all of those entities at different times have operated and/or had assets and agents in the United States."
Money quote(s):
"What a strangely marvelous thing it must be to be an enemy of the United States. Feted and exalted as folk heroes by Euro-weenies and the American left, lavishly rewarded by the United States itself upon eventual ultimate defeat, with a well-financed, no-heavy-lifting assist on the propaganda front.
For the record: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed exactly no lawsuits against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Saudi banking system, Pakistan’s ISI, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraq’s former Baathist regime, the former Soviet regime, the current Cuban one, or any number of other associated entities for denying thousands of Americans their civil liberties or being complicit in the denial of a massive pile of American civil liberties up to and including life and the pursuit of happiness, though all of those entities at different times have operated and/or had assets and agents in the United States."
Sunday, April 5, 2009
re: "To LBJ Or Not To LBJ"
Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement notes how history presents presidents with choices.
Money quote(s):
"Obama doesn’t want to be a war president. Too bad. Because not being one isn’t one of his options. He only gets to choose whether he wants to be a winning war president or a losing one."
Money quote(s):
"Obama doesn’t want to be a war president. Too bad. Because not being one isn’t one of his options. He only gets to choose whether he wants to be a winning war president or a losing one."
re: "Barack Obama: Born in Hawaii"
Andrew Walden at FrontPageMagazine.Com settles this issue decisively and conclusively.
Money quote(s):
"A fairly impressive internet industry has sprung up claiming that Obama was born in either Kenya or Indonesia. This is nonsense which distracts from the broadly unexplored story of Obama’s upbringing. This kind of nonsense has emerged because the McCain campaign chose not to raise the many questions about Barack Obama’s numerous hard-left alliances. Barack Obama was born in Hawai'i, August 4, 1961 at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu."
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"For Obama to have been born in Kenya, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. would have had to fly from Honolulu to Mombasa, give birth in a substandard third world hospital, fly back and then somehow arrange for a fraudulent birth certificate to be entered by the State of Hawai'i on August 8, 1961 (at the time governed by Republican William Quinn). They would have also somehow planted the phony birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser (at the time edited by Republican Thurston Twigg-Smith) and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Hawai'i’s current Republican Governor Linda Lingle would also have to be complicit in the cover-up as would all of the leftist 1960s University of Hawaii friends of Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr—among them US Rep Neil Abercrombie.
In 1961, the roundtrip flight to Kenya would have been a very expensive, pointless, and time consuming epic journey for two starving students. Barack Obama Sr. had only been able to come study at UH Manoa with a free ticket on a donated charter flight with other Kenyan students. "
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Hat tip to Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement.
Money quote(s):
"A fairly impressive internet industry has sprung up claiming that Obama was born in either Kenya or Indonesia. This is nonsense which distracts from the broadly unexplored story of Obama’s upbringing. This kind of nonsense has emerged because the McCain campaign chose not to raise the many questions about Barack Obama’s numerous hard-left alliances. Barack Obama was born in Hawai'i, August 4, 1961 at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu."
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"For Obama to have been born in Kenya, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. would have had to fly from Honolulu to Mombasa, give birth in a substandard third world hospital, fly back and then somehow arrange for a fraudulent birth certificate to be entered by the State of Hawai'i on August 8, 1961 (at the time governed by Republican William Quinn). They would have also somehow planted the phony birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser (at the time edited by Republican Thurston Twigg-Smith) and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Hawai'i’s current Republican Governor Linda Lingle would also have to be complicit in the cover-up as would all of the leftist 1960s University of Hawaii friends of Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr—among them US Rep Neil Abercrombie.
In 1961, the roundtrip flight to Kenya would have been a very expensive, pointless, and time consuming epic journey for two starving students. Barack Obama Sr. had only been able to come study at UH Manoa with a free ticket on a donated charter flight with other Kenyan students. "
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Hat tip to Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
re: "Great News!"
Jules Crittenden at Forward Movement explains why Blair House wasn't available any earlier than customary.
Money quote(s):
"John Howard, erstwhile Oz PM, towering figure of moral strength and clarity, stalwart ally, is coming to D.C. for a victory lap with Tony Blair and George Bush."
Money quote(s):
"John Howard, erstwhile Oz PM, towering figure of moral strength and clarity, stalwart ally, is coming to D.C. for a victory lap with Tony Blair and George Bush."
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