Posted in: Terrorism
Thursday Jun 11, 2009
Shooting at National Holocaust Museum (Update)
I have no idea what this gunman's (James W. von Brunn) problem was, but he was on the radar of the Southern Poverty Law Center for a long time. It appears that he has ties with white supremacist groups and...
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emailThursday Sep 11, 2008
My reflections on September 11
September 11 -- I do not want to be misunderstood. I think that having a moment of silence and introspection and reflection is always good. It is as on September 10th as it is on September 11th. Memorial celebrations...
Friday Aug 8, 2008
Another Bush administration failure
By now, it is hard to keep up with the vast amount of failures that the Bush administration has accumulated. Two of these failures have arrived in the lap of the American people at the same time. The first is...
Tuesday Jul 15, 2008
I like to laugh as much or more than the next guy. I can laugh at myself and my candidate. Unfortunately, I think that the New Yorker has gone too far. Barack Obama and his supporters have fought hard...
Saturday Dec 1, 2007
What's Worse? Taking Money from Osama, or Giving It to Him?
The ABC News blog "The Blotter" drops a leak against Musharraf's rival Nawas Sharif: The former prime minister of Pakistan ... once received a million-dollar payoff from Osama Bin Laden as a thanks for not cracking down on the militant...
Monday Nov 12, 2007
I always felt that my foreign policy chapter in "Wait! Don't Move To Canada!" was the most important of the book. I also sensed it would be the chapter that would gain the least traction. Arguing, as I do, that...
Sunday Jul 22, 2007
How Did That Safe Haven Get There?
With the latest National Intelligence Estimate finding that Al Qaeda "has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability," the White House took to the Sunday shows to fight the obvious conclusion that Dubya's neocon foreign policy has...
Tuesday Jul 10, 2007
The Sorry History of Bush's Pakistan Policy
Following Sunday's NY Times report that "A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas was aborted at the last minute after top Bush administration officials decided it was too risky...
Saturday Jun 30, 2007
"We Have To Fight Them Over There, So We Don't Have To Over Here"
An argument you will never hear in Great Britian....
Thursday May 10, 2007
Soon-to-be former Prime Minister Tony Blair: ...removing Saddam and his sons from power, as with removing the Taliban, was over with relative ease. But the blowback since, with global terrorism and those elements that support it, has been fierce and...
Thursday Sep 28, 2006
Why the Intelligence Community Might Like My Book
The National Intelligence Estimate on trends in global terrorism is so damning to the Right's entire foreign policy vision, they have no choice but to pushback on it now that is has surfaced. But they are so caught off-guard, they...
Tuesday Sep 26, 2006
LiberalOasis has been critical of Washington Dems for not nationalizing the election around a " target="_blank">set of core principles. Yet Washington Dems have been working to prevent Republicans from nationalizing the election around dishonest right-wing terrorism frames. They got in...
Monday Sep 25, 2006
As you probably already know, the big show on Sunday was the Bill Clinton-Chris Wallace showdown on Fox News Sunday. The crystallizing moment of the exchange was: WALLACE: Do you think you did enough, sir? CLINTON: No, because I didn't...
Friday Sep 22, 2006
Bush Endorses Pakistan's Deal With Qaeda-Friendly Militants
In today's press conference with the Pakistan president, Dubya was asked about Pakistan's recent peace pact with the Islamic militants on the Afghan border: Q: ...are you satisfied with his assurances on the tribal deal? BUSH: ...I appreciate the briefing...
Friday Sep 22, 2006
Bush's Torture faced off with McCain's Torture-Lite. They found a Torture-y compromise. LiberalOasis outlined where this unholy compromise was headed on the Sunday Talkshow Breakdown. Hullabaloo and Balkinization have the post-compromise analysis. This is what you get when you let...
Monday Sep 18, 2006
If you thought you were going to see a big Republican Party crack-up over torture and detainee rights, well ... you may have to keep waiting. Although the White House was rebuffed last week by GOP Sens. John McCain, Lindsey...
Friday Sep 15, 2006
Yesterday, we saw Republicans admit that getting Osama Bin Laden is not a top priority, while lying about WMD intelligence regarding Iran. In other words, instead of focusing our military on the main threat to our security, those in charge...
Thursday Sep 14, 2006
Ignoring Checks, Upsetting Balances
In Sidney Blumenthal's "How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime," he properly characterizes Bush's quest for "absolute power" as the main component of his "radicalism": his "disdain[] of the Congress and brushing aside [of] the judicial branch when he...
Friday Sep 8, 2006
It's been quite impressive to watch the campaign against "The Path to 9/11," the ABC "crockudrama" slated to air Sunday and Monday. The combination of online truth-squadding, grassroots pressure, and high-level criticism has put the network on the defensive, preventing...
Thursday Sep 7, 2006
Yesterday, Dubya copped to interrogating detainees in secret prisons using "an alternative set of procedures." The head of Human Rights Watch properly responded: "'alternative procedures' - read torture." Of course, Dubya insisted that the treatment wasn't torture, but the White...
Wednesday Sep 6, 2006
In Dubya's latest speech about the "Global War on Terror," referring specifically to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, he said: These radicals have declared their uncompromising hostility to freedom. It is foolish to think that you can negotiate with...
Thursday Aug 31, 2006
The crux of Tuesday's demagogic address by Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld was: [Before World War II] was a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among Western democracies. When those who warned about a coming...
Friday Aug 11, 2006
It would appear that a bona fide terror plot was foiled yesterday by the British government. LiberalOasis takes Homeland Security chief " target="_blank">Michael Chertoff at his word: This was a very sophisticated plan and operation. This is not a circumstance...
