The guys in Reuterville just can’t pass up an opportunity to make fun of America. Here’s a passage from an article on the possibility of a new moon mission:
In 1962 President John F. Kennedy issued a stirring call for the nation to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Apollo 17 astronauts landed there in December 1972.
But wait. Didn’t Apollo 11 make it to the moon in 1969?
Haha, silly boy, Reuters is a news agency, not a fact agency!
“This revolution does not depend on one individual, or two, or three,” Castro declared in a speech of more than two hours at a birthday celebration in the courtyard of Elian’s school in the child’s hometown of Cardenas, about 85 miles east of Havana.
The mind reels at the depravity of a political system that would subject a 10-year-old boy to a two-hour speech by this gasbag at his birthday party.
Just think of what those children had to be threatened with to get them to sit through that.
Red Cross president Jakob Kellenberger said the same thing last month:
We will not operate from buildings secured by military personnel and we will not use military escorts. Either measure would be incompatible with independent humanitarian work as we understand it.
If the Red Cross had left because they didn’t believe the Americans could protect them, I would have understood. I won’t condemn NGO workers for refusing to take risks I don’t take myself. But the way I read this, the Red Cross left because it didn’t want to be protected by American forces, because that would somehow corrupt their peaceful mission.
I think it’s more that the Red Cross didn’t think protection worth the cost of associating with the US military, even to help the Iraqi people. What does that say about the International Committee of the Red Cross?
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The [United Nations] General Assembly approved a resolution today asking the International Court of Justice to rule on the legality of the barrier that Israel is building in the West Bank.
Perhaps the UN should rule on which nation actually own the land over which the wall will run. Is it Palestine? Woops, there is no Palestine and never has been! And Jordan, the former occupier (strange how that occupation was OK) has renounced its claims. The would leave ownership by conquest and default to … hmmm, I’ll have to go look that up … dang, it doesn’t seem to be on my map.
Comments from commanders in the field in Iraq, via Winds of Change. The summary, as expected, is