Rule 18 and lots more down the latest MSMemory hole. (HT Glenn)

Spanish Flypaper Redux Apocalypse Interlude

Warren is back with the intersection of Iraq and Spain:

As the author of the much-mocked "flypaper theory" -- the phrase I used to describe the implicit strategy behind the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan -- I am more and more persuaded it has worked. All ground indications are that large numbers of Islamist terrorists who would otherwise remain dangerously under cover, not only across the region but in Europe and elsewhere, are irresistibly drawn towards these theatres of action, where they sooner or later get themselves killed.

As terrorists, they were, almost invariably, in a position to be more effective where they were. They are lured away for emotional reasons, or "spiritual" if that word can be applied to something that is essentially not Godly but demonic. It is the Islamist analogy to the way young socialists, anarchists, and adventurers from across Europe were drawn to Spain during its Civil War in the 1930s.

Not to mention a way too optimistic review of the Apocalypse:

In summary: the Bush administration has done, in the main, the right things to extinguish Islamism. This leaves us with other, and potentially worse problems elsewhere, on which it has done nothing at all, nor yet appears to have anything resembling a plan.

Yes, I said way too optimistic.

More details "soon".

Well, every good leftist knows that the Germans are an excellent source of foreign law to help shape the U.S. Constitution. Here's why they're mental midgets.

Downs with the MSM

Michael points out that the MSM persists in calling folks who do this "insurgents" when in fact they are nothing more than bigots with car bombs.

And no, that's not a typo in my title.

The MSM would never tell you this about the bloody beasts they effectively support with their "if it bleeds it leads" story line corruption. (HT WoC)

The MSM is trying with all their heart to throw open the doors of the sanctuary.

UPDATE: And, oh yes, the MSM really would have you believe they care oh so much about minorities. Right.

Depends On What The Meaning Of Soon Is...

Glenn summarizes this weekend's required reading at the Belmont Club. I would comment more tonight but as you probably noticed, I ran out of words in the last post. RTWT and go back and review the Three Conjectures and their postscript while your at it.

More words on the Tinfoil Apocalypse coming soon... (Well, soon is getting closer anyway...)

Babe Theory Update: But Still Without Driving

Red State is quoted thusly by WILLisms:

:...the "babe theory" is actually a clever way of expressing a profound point. The edifice of Middle Eastern autocracy and its particularly virulent outgrowth--terrorism--rests upon the repression of women. Liberate female energies from political cage of tyranny and the religious prison of Islamic doctrine and the authority of the bearded mullahs and "pious" terrorists and sexually repressed holy men will crumble like the desiccated dust of the mummies they are.
We are releasing a genie into the Middle East--and the world--whose power is incalcuable.

Kinda gets down to the nub of things, doesn't it?

I really, really want to see how our so-called women's rights activists -- who say not a peep about the stunning repression of women in the Muslim world -- would react if when Condi visits the Saudi nut-jobs she asks to drive a car and turns the brouhaha into a spotlight on their misogyny!

Any bets that Condi would somehow be the object of their venomous attacks?

Thought so.

Did I forget to mention that driving by women leads to evil?

I have now officially run out of words...

You Wonder Why Foul-Mouthed Howie

... is so foul-mouthed? So he can distract his minion loons from having to consider points like this:

Forgive me for making a blunt and obvious point, but events in Western Europe are slowly discrediting large swaths of American liberalism.

Most of the policy ideas advocated by American liberals have already been enacted in Europe: generous welfare measures, ample labor protections, highly progressive tax rates, single-payer health care systems, zoning restrictions to limit big retailers, and cradle-to-grave middle-class subsidies supporting everything from child care to pension security. And yet far from thriving, continental Europe has endured a lost decade of relative decline.

Western Europeans seem to be suffering a crisis of confidence. Election results, whether in North Rhine-Westphalia or across France and the Netherlands, reveal electorates who have lost faith in their leaders, who are anxious about declining quality of life, who feel extraordinarily vulnerable to foreign competition - from the Chinese, the Americans, the Turks, even the Polish plumbers.

Mais Oui?

No new ideas from the Dims? The French are their heros after all...

Another fake message about the latest MSM fake story? Or a real message about a fake story? (HT WoC again)

You say Husayni, I say Husseini. Unfortunately the whole thing won't get called off until the death toll looks a lot more like that created by his patron: Hitler. (HT WoC)

Remembering Luther

My uncle Luther was a WWII vet who participated in the North African and Italian campaigns. Here's to you Luther! (I'll post a picture soon -- the technology fails me right now.)

And I just learned that my cousin's son Joe has joined the 82nd Airborne!

Our family salutes you both!

UPDATE: Here's that picture of Luther I promised...

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