Category Archives: Foreign Policy

LinkSwarm for Monday, May 9, 2011

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Lawrence Person

A few links of potential interest: “Candygram.” Al-Zarqawi complains about his new roommate. Cracks in the Eurozone. Deficits have consequences. “Each hid his homosexuality, each was racist, each took pains to manufacture favorable coverage, each was driven by petty hatreds … Continue reading →

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Osama Bin Laden IS Norma Desmond!

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Lawrence Person

So the Pentagon has released captured video of Osama Bin Laden watching footage of himself on TV: Setting aside why he would have had anyone filming him watching TV (maybe he was testing a new camera, or maybe he was … Continue reading →

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And Still More Bin Laden Fallout

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Lawrence Person

A few more post-Osama postmortem tidbits: Ace of Spades presents a timeline of the hunt for Bin Laden. It turns out that, despite initial reports, Bin Laden was unarmed when the SEAL team sent him to Allah. I’ve got absolutely … Continue reading →

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More Bin Laden Fallout

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Lawrence Person

First, I called it on the ISI’s involvement in hiding him, since he was taken out in a “former” ISI safehouse. Belmont Club’s Richard Fernandez connects the dots: Ironically the circumstances surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden tends to … Continue reading →

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Give Our Regards to Hitler and Stalin

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Lawrence Person

So. Osama Bin Laden is dead. Good. If there’s an afterlife, he’s moved on to a place where his ideas about Jihad will be warmly received. A few points: This was an important victory, but the war against terror continues. … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for Thursday, April 14, 2011

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Lawrence Person

Interview with Michael Totten on The Road to Fatima Gate. Preliminary redistricting proposals have been released. More about it from BurkaBlog here and here. There is talk of moving Texas’ Presidential primary to April. The blog is called Frontloading, which … Continue reading →

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Books Received: Michael Totten’s The Road to Fatima Gate

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Lawrence Person

My copy of Michael Totten’s The Road to Fatima Gate came in today. Since I’m also an insane book collector (and since he does good work), I got an autographed copy. (One book collector gripe, Michael: If you’re going to … Continue reading →

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The Case For (and Against) Intervention in Libya

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Lawrence Person

A few weeks ago, the United States (and Obama) could have delivered a knock-out punch to the heinous regime of Moammar Gadhafi. A clear-cut victory over a tottering tyrant was within our grasp, an outcome that would have benefited us, … Continue reading →

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This Week in Jihad for March 18, 2011

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Lawrence Person

Been one of those weeks, so this is a little shorter and later than usual: Army reprimands 9 scapegoats for its own political correctness in Nidal Hasan’s Ft. Hood shooting. U.S. resident Pakistani charged with illegally smuggling nuclear material to … Continue reading →

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Japan Tsunami/Earthquake News

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Lawrence Person

I haven’t been posting much here, as I’ve been putting up a lot of news and videos on the Sendai earthquake on my personal blog. But I did think this bit caught in my spam filter over there was worth … Continue reading →

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