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avior and imperial intent signaled the likelihood of such behavior and intent in the future certainly many in the west hoped strong support and a muscular defense of now liberated states would help coax russia away from aggressiveness and a belief that such aggressiveness need not be eternal mandelbaum also suggests that nato promoters considered russia too weak to endanger any new nato members so we would never have to commit troops to defend them that sounds like a straw man and the whole point of moves like membership in nato and participation in missile defense is a well considered response to a russia far too strong and still quite capable of violence and aggression towards its neighbors friedman concludes georgia is a nascent free market democracy and we can t just watch it get crushed indeed within his russian apologia masked as even handed criticism friedman also consents to a bottom line i can agree with if it persists this behavior will push every russian neighbor to seek protection from moscow and will push the europeans to redouble their efforts to find alternatives to russian oil and gas this won t happen overnight but in time it will stretch russia s defenses and lead it to become more isolated more insecure and less wealthy friedman ends where russia s neighbors have always lived in nervous vigilance next to an imperial minded thug via memeorandum labels democracy russia link posted by jeff 5 58 pm saturday august 16 2008 georgia on my mind what to make of events in georgia or the obviously preplanned depredations of russia s putin in responding to georgian aggression are we entering an era of a renewed cold war has history resurrected itself what to make of evil that brooks no opposition nor makes any effort to hide or disguise its true nature how many times will the world need to relearn the same lesson in different guise victor davis hanson evaluates reaction from certain quarters of the american political landscape writing at the corner once again for the left if it is a question of supporting democratic states and those in them from tyrants or finding new creative ways of blaming the united states first well the answer is a no brainer and from paleos one expected a sort of georgia s bigmouth stuck his neck in a noose so let him hang but the near gleeful admiration for the way ole putin took care of business in his backyard was over the top even for them obama initially sounded like the therapeutic high school principal and his zero tolerance doctrine of moral equivalence as he expels both the victim and the bully but his calls for un solutions talks with equally at fault parties and apparent trust in the wisdom of the eu and the power of nato may not just scare eastern europeans but even those 200 000 who deified him at berlin but in fairness they were warned when obama lectured them that the world had saved berlin during the airlift rather than the us air force nothing is scarier for a western european than to be praised for his sophisticated diplomacy as a prelude to being asked to lead on his own in times of crises complexities abound in the reality based community the real one inhabited by people who thoughtfully consider the real world for what it is not what they wish it to be not the kind of people waiting around for the world to realize they are the embodiment of everything the world has been waiting for not the residence of the hard left for whom appeasement and apologia for slavic dictators and tyrants were their mother s milk and strained peaches where every strain of american exceptionalism is discounted save the view that america must be uniquely condemned not the home for the stone age right who view every international attachment through a racist prism exaggerating threats to the homeland and whatever genetic stock they enshrine america first america only america in splendid isolation from a barbaric world the big city might benefit from determined attention to the broken windows in the hood but the wider world is better left to its own devices and as we face the most serious of choices this fall do either of the major candidates live in the real gritty world with the rest of us years in a communist prisoner of war camp years of solid but not uncritical support for fighting terrorism where it actually germinates or matures make a pretty good prima facie case for real world residence a long but unpublished academic tenure community activism and a short but entirely unremarkable political career should give us pause should we be more or less unsettled by a candidate s long and collegial association with marxist revolutionaries and black liberation hysterics or who can so frequently find common cause with known apologists for communism and totalitarian regimes and dictators just some worrisome concerns from an old cold war anticommunist labels politics link posted by jeff 9 00 am thursday august 07 2008 prepackaged slander the editors at the ny times have long proved themselves overwhelmingly biased and nakedly partisan throughout 8 years of relentless attacks against any move the bush administration has taken to fight terrorism or our terrorist enemies they make no pretense of logic consistency or even sanity as long as all slurs and insults point bush ward they have no need of facts let alone opposing viewpoints especially not those heretical ones that refute the received wisdom of the times they assume venality in every case cause and controversy and have championed the alternate universe inhabited by most of the left whereby their political opponents are evil every intention is ulterior and sinister and every partisan on the other side is less than human the ny times doesn t just drink the kool aid they concoct huge batches of it for public consumption but they ve outdone themselves today in offensiveness insult even slander asserting that the us military has aided and abetted in orchestrating a kangaroo court conviction of an admitted terrorist under orders from the white house and congress from the editors of the times comes this guilty as ordered now that was a real nail biter the court designed by the white house and its congressional enablers to guarantee convictions of high profile detainees in guantánamo bay cuba using evidence obtained by torture and secret evidence as desired has held its first trial it produced a guilty verdict the military commission of six senior officers whose names have not been made public found salim ahmed hamdan who worked as one of osama bin laden s drivers until 2001 guilty of one count of providing material support for terrorism the rules of justice on guantánamo are so stacked against defendants that the only surprise was that mr hamdan was actually acquitted on the more serious count of conspiring it was unclear with whom to kill americans during the invasion of afghanistan after sept 11 2001 the times refuses to employ real legal scholars or any modicum of fact checking to refute your average terrorist defense attorney s talking points apparently preferring to rely on columnists like economist paul krugman for legal commentary thus they can allege that the trial outcome was ordered or that the military tribunal process is so stacked against defendants while in the very same editorial admit that hamdan was found innocent of a questionable charge and found guilty of one he admitted this despite the views of actual legal scholars who note that the current military tribunal process as established by the worst bits of lawmaking in american history the military commissions act of 2006 insisted upon by the supreme court and enacted by congress on a second attempt is actually more protective of defendant rights as anything guaranteed by the geneva conventions or even that afforded us soldiers under military justice if i were one of the 6 officers who sat in that jury i d file a defamation or libel suit against the times i d also make it big public and embarrassing for the times editors the times has played anything but the role of impartial observer negligently perpetrating untruths and fallacies about military law and repeated bush administration efforts to create a legal framework for individuals who are at war with us but act as proxies for state sponsors of terror or other organized terror and criminal gangs the times misreports on the geneva conventions and the laws of war military justice military affairs and often constitutional law and jurisprudence they insist on remaining ignorant and perpetuating the prolonged ignorance of their readers they sabotage government and military counterterrorism programs aid and abet the disclosure of classified intelligence and programs and they self righteously cloak themselves in a ludicrous mantel of public service in doing as much harm as possible to any effort taken to combat terror if there existed any actual impartial credentialing authority for journalists their bona fides would have been yanked some time ago i for one have concluded that we should have identified any terrorists saboteurs irregular militias fighters in or out of uniform captured on foreign battlefields or outside the us as prisoners of war rather than unlawful combatants with an oppositional and power hungry supreme court an obstructionist opposition party who places partisan gain above national security there has been and will be no hope we will ever convince the naysayers that terrorists are a threat and terror organizations are real and must be combated aggressively here s the thing with pows in wartime military authorities get to identify those who engaged in terror committing acts of violence in direct violation of the geneva conventions and laws of war sure go ahead and exempt american terrorists and shuttle them off to the civilian legal system the us can then implement military proceedings on foreign combatants and conduct summary executions of individuals deemed guilty of war crimes terror espionage or sabotage on the spot they can keep the rest confined until such time as a credible terror organization steps forward to surrender on their behalf which means we can leave them to rot for the rest of their lives in prison camps an actual real world prosecutor with real life experience in prosecuting terror cases andy mccarthy reacts with similar if more composed outrage over at the corner naturally i would never suggest that the new york times stoops to a predetermined editorial narrative with which it proceeds and toward which it slants news coverage without a care in the world about what facts actually happen but today s guilty as ordered rant about the hamdan military commission trial has to take the cake the first paragraph is so shamefully dishonest and misrepresentative of reality as to defy one s necessarily low expectations of the gray lady snip of course the trial also produced a not guilty verdict was that as ordered too if the system was designed to guarantee convictions how did that happen bill west writing at the counterterrorism blog comments on the times malicious slander of the military officers sitting on the hamdan jury the results of this trial demonstrate that american military officers truly are the independent minded moral self thinkers we expect them to be sure members of the military must take and follow orders but they must also be able to think for themselves and act in a moral way this is especially true for the officer corps the leadership of the us military we expect military officers to act with honor and sound judgement contrary to what some on the far left very many of whom never served in the military may believe when one becomes a us military officer one does not morph into a mindless automaton the officers who served on this jury had a duty to independently weigh the evidence presented to them within the rules of the commission and to render a decision based on their own judgment of that evidence not based on any external orders the conduct of the proceedings and the verdict demonstrate those officers did just that they not only vindicated the commission the system but they brought great credit upon themselves and the officer corps they upheld that code of honor we the people expect of them the ny times in its derogatory editorial not only ignores that fact but does a backhanded insult to those officers who served on the jury links via memeorandum labels media war on terror link posted by jeff 8 00 am tuesday august 05 2008 the people s call a concerned group of alarmed leftists noting sen obama s many flip flops on issues of critical interest to them wrote an open letter to the presumed democratic nominee for president in addition to obligatory foreign policy positions on iraq and terrorism as well as a completely unrestricted right to abortion they identify a panoply of aged socialist ambitions from which obama dare not dissent for risk of straying from marxist orthodoxy a response to the current economic crisis that reduces the gap between the rich and the rest of us through a more progressive financial and welfare system public investment to create jobs and repair the country s collapsing infrastructure fair trade policies restoration of the freedom to organize unions and meaningful government enforcement of labor laws and regulation of industry universal healthcare an environmental policy that transforms the economy by shifting billions of dollars from the consumption of fossil fuels to alternative energy sources creating millions of green jobs a commitment to improving conditions in urban communities and ending racial inequality including disparities in education through reform of the no child left behind act and other measures an immigration system that treats humanely those attempting to enter the country and provides a path to citizenship for those already here one can only imagine what a more progressive financial and welfare system would look like as it stands now less than 50 of americans pay more in taxes than they receive as direct payout from the government the top 5 of earners pay more than 80 of all taxes anyone earning more than 100 000 a year nowhere near rich by modern standards pays 50 or more of their income towards taxes at the federal state and local levels the poor in america subsist at a higher standard of living than 95 of all of humanity and more than 80 of all other citizens of the world it reminds me of the bumper sticker you see vote democrat it s easier than working public education and emergency medical care are easily available on demand for these same poor despite the deplorable absence of universal healthcare and when did the us outlaw unions workers remain free to organize unions but fewer and fewer non unionized workers chose to sacrifice even a modest amount of their income to union bureaucracies and kleptocracies that have enriched their leadership without improving working conditions which already exceed those of almost every country on earth what s...