I can't take any more of their Orwellian crap. Was the moronic inferno this bad when the Vietnam War ended?

This, Kraus, is the Vietnam debate all over again. Nixon/Kissinger's version of the above was ousting Sihanouk and replacing him with Lon Nol in Cambodia, so as to make that country fight on our side and deny the North the use of eastern Cambodia as a supply route and sanctuary.
This led to civil war in that country, which led to the Khmer Rouge winning, and the rest, as they say, is history.
It was all the fault of the defeatist Left, of course. They're trying to set it up so that they can say the same thing again.

Let's also recall that the ouster of Sihanouk was preceded by the merry-go-round of new rulers in Saigon starting with the overthrow of Diem. Granted Diem had all sorts of problems and probably wouldn't have lasted much on his own, it remains that none of the guys who replaced him turned out to be any more stable. I wonder where the talk about replacing the Maliki government in Baghdad is going these days.

This is hilarious writing. And Matthew got all the funniest bits in as I checked out the original. Thank God for satire and irony in cases like this. Where would you be if you couldn't laugh at this lunacy??

Dems--PUSH BACK!

This reminds me of Billmon, perhaps the greatest blogger-ironist, at his best. Alas, poor Billmon, he's left us: "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you..."

Managed to finally see Der Untergang last week, Hitler also had a way of pulling fictional divisions out of his ass. When they for some reason didn't arrive to save the day, he blamed his generals and the German people for their treasonous disloyalty.

This is just awful. The feminist (NOW) endorsement of the war on Afghanistan has destroyed its credibility in my mind (I think that academic feminists still have to acknowledge that, coming after the Lewinsky fiasco). Now one goes to war to defend gay rights. Is the US really reaching for straws as far as justification is concerned? Of course, as said, it is WINNING! whatever that means now. God, I need a good night of deep sleep.

I read the above and for some reason couldn't get Python's "Spam" skit out of my head:

"Well we've got surge, eggs, surge, bacon, surge and surge.."

"Or surge, surge, more troops, surge and surge.. "

"But I don't want surge.. "

"well then order the ethnic cleansing, surge, surge and civil war.. there's not much surge in that".

What a mess.

ah, motherfucker...I'm getting worked up about the saber-rattling against Iran, the stationing of Patriot missiles in Iraq (why?...), the invasion of the Iranian consulate, the carrier groups...somebody calm me. Give me a shot.

Iraqi Kurds demand MNF to release Iranian consulate staff

"Citizens of Iraq's Kurdistan express their dissatisfaction to such operations which violate the region internal affairs and create tension between Iraq and neighboring countries, therefore Iraqi Kurds demand the immediate release of the Iranian officials," the statement concluded.

Great. As per usual, they manage to exceed even my expectations of their blundering, even when I take into account their ability to exceed those expectations. The one thing I'd have thought they'd have been able to do was to keep the Kurds on board.

Didn't we nearly go to war with Iran over violation of our diplomatic personnel? Man, all you kids are too young to remember this stuff.....

Ah, well, at least you are experiencing the worst of times. After this Administration, even mediocrity will seem brilliant by comparison.