Unqualified Offerings

The appalling slaughter by a Palestinian suicide bomber at a Seder feast in Netanya yesterday is even more appalling to those of us who have had the pleasure of attending one, or many. The next time someone suggests letting an enemy nation off the hook out of respect for Ramadan, just throw this atrocity back [...]

The Times of India says “General Musharraf finally begins to lose.” Jim Hoagland of the WashPost writes, “President Pervez Musharraf’s failure to match promises with sustained action undermines Bush’s campaign to make his war on terrorists a clear struggle of good vs. evil.” Whether this is due to Musharraf’s weakness, disgust that the aid tap [...]

Best [Neocon-Approved Items] of the Web has figured out a slight downside to the Administration’s public commitment to a regime-changing war against Iraq:
It’s also true, though, that if Baghdad unleashes weapons of mass destruction, victory could come at a steep cost to Israel. The ideal outcome surely would be to topple terror-sponsoring regimes one at [...]

Mrs. Offering continues, stubbornly, to wake up to NPR each morning, which is her right as an autonomous human female person. But today Unqualified Offerings misheard a reference to “Puccini’s Madame Butterfly” as “Dick Cheney’s Madame Butterfly.”
And that’s when it struck Unqualified Offerings: What else do these folks have to do in their undisclosed location [...]

Tony Adragna offers a solution to Israel’s Palestinian terror problem that was first suggested by Charles Krauthammer back in August 2001. It made sense then. It makes sense now. One Leet-ull problem: The US would oppose it. Says Tony:
Too bad Sharon blew the opportunity (as Charles predicted he would). What’s even worse, though, is that [...]

Reader Martin Wisse writes to inform that
Spiked Online is the new project of the editor of the old LM magazine, which used to be called Living Marxism. So yes, it’s a leftist magazine, but of a somewhat unusual kind, having arrived at a more …libertarian outlook regarding some issues.
They’re also not afraid to [...]

I think little of the Palestinians as a political entity. I think hardly more of the Arab world as a polity. If there is such a thing as political adolescence, of the most infuriating kind, the Arab nations generally and the Palestinians specifically have been mired in it for decades. If the Palestinians had had [...]

Ken Layne’s FoxNews column is devoted to Saddam Hussein’s financial support for Palestinian suicide bombers. The factual case is persuasive. This isn’t clutching-at-straws propaganda like the endless futile attempts to tie Iraq to the September massacres or the anthrax attacks. There is no doubt that Hussein’s actions make Iraq Israel’s enemy. There’s no reason Israel [...]

An Instapundit reader excitedly points to today’s Dick Morris column, in which Morris susses out the Bush Administration’s clever plan for Iraq:
But, instead of Saddam playing Bush, it will be Bush who is playing Saddam. The minute Saddam resumes his old game of telling the arms inspectors they can’t visit sites without notice or barring [...]

Air Force Major “JH” sends a link to this interesting historical site, devoted to the Battle of Kontum in 1972 South Vietnam. He may have done this because he thinks Unqualified Offerings is unduly dubious of the results from Shah-i-khot – he doesn’t really say. For whatever reason, it’s always nice to get mail from [...]