Andrea Mitchell looks pretty pissed: “He didn’t have reporters with him, he didn’t have a press pool, he didn’t do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq.”

An Iraq clarification from Barack Obama:

Let me be crystal clear: if elected president, my first act will be to call for the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq. I have always been consistent and forthright in this position, and I want to reassure my supporters that my recent statement backtracking from it was just some bullshit my staff came up with to tack to the center for the general election. To win this election, it will be critical to appeal to the dwindling but stubborn group of idiots who cling to fantasies of American “victory” in this tragic disaster.

Is it all downhill from here for Hezbollah?

at The People’s Cube.

Negating the Nakba Narrative

The Washington Post says that Al Qaeda is not doing so well these days.  The reporter struggles to explain (or is purposely excluding) the Iraq war’s importance to their serious setbacks world-wide, essentially claiming that Al Qaeda is its own worst enemy (not the US).

Baltimore Sun:

Kantor talked with Jewish voters in South Florida, many of them liberal Democrats, and found real skepticism about Obama, some of it based on a lack of familiarity with him, some of it on misinformation and some of it on plain old-fashioned racism.

She didn’t find anyone who felt uncomfortable because of his stated positions calling Israel a sore or his willingness to meet face-to-face with Iran’s leadership who want to wipe Israel off the map.  I guess those positions are just kosher with every informed, non-racist Jew.  Funny how that works.

Why some Neo-Nazis are starting to support Israel.

No more porno in Gaza

Michael Totten: “Hezbollah’s “victory” in Beirut is not all it seems”

Steyn warns Europe: Be Careful What You Wish For

At Michael Totten:

Obama’s language is derived from those corners of the left that claim Hezbollah is only interested in winning the Shia a larger share of the political process. Never mind the guns, it’s essentially a social welfare movement, with schools and clinics! – and its own foreign policy, intelligence services and terror apparatus, used at the regional, international and now domestic level. But the solution, says, Obama, channeling the man he fired for talking to Hamas, is diplomacy.

“A far cry from Title IX”

Sandmonkey looks at the situation in Beirut (with a mix of seriousness and humor).

Read this: The Very Big War

Obama flip-flops on his pledge to meet with rouge leaders unconditionally…and the NY Times is there with the expected spin wash.

Campaign to free Yemeni Journalist al-Khaiwani, who was sentenced to death for criticizing Yemen’s president.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah is surging in Lebanon.  Good thing those UN weapons sanctions worked so well.  I actually met a French army officer assigned as UN overseer last summer and he assured me, despite everything I was reading, that the situation was well under control.

Obama did not choose Trinity despite Wright’s extremism but because of it.

Michael Totten dismisses the recent wave of hype about a potential Syria turn-around as wishful thinking. Michael and I could not agree more.

We are driving back to New York City right this moment, trying out this Sierra Wireless adapter (so far we are very pleased).

Is Jimmy Carter a racist? Probably not. A diplomatic shill? Definitely.

UPDATE: This from PowerLine

Sadr coordinating with Al-Qaeda?

Nice work from former President Dhimmi Carter.  Someone revoke this guy’s passport, please.

Listen to the Generals on the ground. No wait, don’t listen to the Generals!

Barbie attack!

John Bolton explains the idiocy of Jimmy Carter.