Great, now the frogs are whining about the possibility that we’ll execute Mr. Moussaoui–turns out he’s a French citizen. Well, they should have kept him in France, and let him blow up the Eiffel Tower. I’m actually not all that big on the death penalty for these creeps (it doesn’t seem like much of a punishment for people who want to suicide and get their 72 virgins), but now I’d like to fry him just to spite the cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
Tell you what, Frenchies, here’s the deal. Why don’t you have a referendum on the death penalty. And while you’re at it, on the Euro. You might be surprised at the results.
Just as we saw in Kabul, Kandahar shows little evidence of any civilian casualties, let alone massive ones.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if we find out that, in overthrowing the Taliban, probably fewer civilians have died in the past couple of months than they would have killed themselves, had they not been distracted by dodging bombs. I hope someone can gather the data (i.e., nominal death rate due to ongoing executions and starvation via Taliban misrule prior to 911) and do the comparison.
Like Instapundit Glenn Reynolds, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg tackles the subject of how wrong all the quagmirers and handwringers were a month ago. He chooses William Pfaff’s piece of just a couple weeks ago as emblematic of the short sightedness of the professional punditocracy.
What this suggests to me is a new noun, pfaff, for warrantless doom-saying about American military and foreign policy.
As reported by the Telegraph, a Japanese woman, dressed in lightweight clothes, froze to death in North Dakota looking for the buried briefcase full of cash from the movie “Fargo.”
Apparently, Robert Fisk doesn’t have a monopoly on anti-West paranoia among British journalists. Reuters (no one here but us freedom fighters…) has reported that Yvonne Ridley, the woman who snuck into Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban and later released, is accusing the CIA, or Mossad, or MI5, or somebody, she’s not quite sure who, of plotting to have her shot for propaganda purposes. She says the Taliban released her because they caught on to the evil plot, but even though she’s seen incriminating documents, she can’t produce them. Maybe her donkey ate the evidence…
According to this story by Dennis Hans, Bush and Cheney cut a deal with the mens’ grooming industry for the concession to the Afghan shaving market.
The disconcerting thing about this piece is that I can’t figure out for the life of me whether it is lunacy or satire. If it were in the Onion, no problem. But it’s printed at Common Dreams, a site that professes to be a center for “breaking news and views for the Progressive community.”
So, is it real, or parody, and if it’s the latter, do the Common Dreams folks understand that, or did they post it in seriousness?
What do y’all think?
[Thursday Update]
A kind (and unduly appreciative) reader, with reading ability apparently vastly superior to my own, has pointed out that the word “Parody” appears just above the headline.