re: "Maybe your country is at war, but not mine"

Murdoc at Murdoc Online found a paucity of martial ardor in our NATO allies.

Money quote(s):

"There was a time when Murdoc thought that the primacy of the UN as the main international body was over than that an expanding NATO would someday fill its place in global politics. That time is long, long past.

NATO isn’t completely worthless. But it seems to inch closer and closer to that state every day.

Though, to be fair, sometimes (a lot of times?) it’s hard to tell that America is at war, too."

America isn't at war. America is "at the mall."

(6/26)

re: "Stupid Headline of the Day"

Murdoc at Murdoc Online ("This weblog is my hobby and other than income from advertising is not run for profit.") tackles the following stupid headline:

"At Auschwitz, future U.S. military leaders learn what not to do"

Money quote(s):

"Yeah. Because otherwise they would have set up concentration camps and genocided someone."

Believe or disbelieve in American exceptionalism as you like, but it takes years of "higher" education for someone to be so mired in the swamps of moral equivalency that they become this stupid.

re: "We were all fooled by the “floating hotel” cover story, weren’t we?"

Murdoc at Murdoc Online ("my quasi-journalistic weblog with military news commanding the greater part of my attention") asks a more-or-less rhetorical question.

Money quote(s):

"It was sold by the Ukraine to China on the condition that it never be used as a warship."

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that China is welching on the terms of the deal. You could knock me over with a fender.

Pray they do not alter it any further.