Politician first, general second, Army chief of staff General Casey with weak knees propagandizing about the bad religion of Slam

The link: Army Chief Concerned for Muslim Troops
A quote:
Asked whether he thought the Army “dropped the ball” in not responding to warning signs that the major was increasingly radical, General Casey replied that he was encouraging soldiers to provide information to criminal investigators. But he added that the Army needs to be careful not to [...]

Tom Cruise, he loves all the Scientology suckers of the world

The St. Petersburg Times does a big expose on Scientology here.
People have been chipping away for years at Scientology, and it’s finally getting to the point where Scientology can’t go after their critics as effectively as they could in years past.
Their cash cow, the exclusive access to the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, are threatened [...]

The Afghan war, and when Afghans have a will of their own

The link: U.S. official resigns over Afghan war (washingtonpost.com)
A quote:
Hoh was assigned to research the response to a question asked by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during an April visit. Mullen wanted to know why the U.S. military had been operating for years in the Korengal Valley, an isolated spot [...]

The payback in war of setting false expectations

The link: American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplains (timesonline.co.uk).
A quote:
Sergeant Christopher Hughes, 37, from Detroit, has lost six colleagues and survived two roadside bombs. Asked if the mission was worthwhile, he replied: “If I knew exactly what the mission was, probably so, but I don’t.”
In Proverbs, it’s written, “Hope deferred makes the [...]

McChrystal, an aggressive man who knows when he has the advantage

The link: Barack Obama angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan (telegraph.co.uk)
A quote:
An adviser to the administration said: “People aren’t sure whether McChrystal is being naïve or an upstart. To my mind he doesn’t seem ready for this Washington hard-ball and is just speaking his mind too plainly.”
and
Some [...]

There’s no war magic for McChrystal

The link: Ten US soldiers killed in Afghanistan (timesonline.co.uk)
A quote:
The US has suffered some of its worst casualties in eastern Afghanistan, where its soldiers have sought to control the remote passes through which Taleban fighters infiltrate from Pakistan, but it had planned shortly to withdraw from the area as part of General [...]

The Republican propaganda that results from requiring that we always win, from not recognizing that the world is a big place, that 300 million people aren’t all powerful

The link: George Will’s Afghanistan Moment (theatlanticwire.com)
A quote:
America’s slipping fortunes in Afghanistan have caused conservatives to ally with Obama on staying the course, while liberal and moderate support for the President’s war efforts have been foundering, as the Wire has covered here and here. Today, George Will, the premier tory conservative columnist in the Washington [...]

Jimmy Carter the dissbigot

The link: Carter: Racism plays major role in opposition to Obama (cnn.com)
A quote:
“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American,” Carter told NBC News. “I live in the South, and I’ve seen the South come [...]

Black on black

It’s obvious to me that ideas such as “freedom” and “the right to bear arms” and “socialism” are ideas that supersede race, so it’s a bad thing when the flaming liberals try to inject race where it shouldn’t be injected.
From: Fear for Obama’s Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash (abcnews.com)
“I don’t think [...]

The real threat of Slam largely ignored by diversity worshiping liberals, for various reasons

The link: Eight Christians burnt to death in Pakistan after Koran is ‘defiled’
Pakistan is an Islamic republic. That means it’s a good place to look for as an example of what happens when Islam rules, not “radical” Islam, but mere Islam, where with mere Islam, it’s against the law to criticize the Koran.
But to flaming [...]