Unqualified Offerings

Honesty requires referencing two problems with the unilateral disgorgement option that Unqualified Offerings has been pushing as the least bad solution to the current terror war in the middle east:
1) According to an audio clip on MSNBC.com, the Matza restaurant bomber was an Israeli Arab, with citizenship papers, who would, obviously, not have been stopped […]

Scott Shuger attempts to find a fitting punishment for convicted terrorists up to and including bin Laden, since “If Osama Bin Laden were caught and convicted of masterminding the 3,000 or so 9/11 deaths, he could still only be executed once, and not by being flung from a burning building.”
His suggestion makes an intriguing alternative […]

The rare palatable George Will column today about the asinine Campaign Finance Reform that George “Split-Screen Republicanism” Bush signed on his way out of town last week.
The day after Congress passed it, The Post’s lead editorial celebrated the bill, which includes restrictions on political advocacy by such organizations as the National Rifle Association, which has […]

Via the redesigned and better-looking Airstrip One, this Daily Telegraph story about infighting among America’s local “allies” in Khost:
For the Americans, the intricacies of tribal allegiances and enmities are apparently baffling.
Unable to separate truth from lies, they have put all the commanders on the payroll, subscribing to the theory that, if they hand out dollars […]

During last fall’s fishing trips along the Patuxent River above Triadelphia Reservoir, I was careful to note rocks and channels during the dead low water levels of the year, so that when spring came I would know where to cast even with all the runoff. No snow, no sleet, no rain to speak of since […]

Ginger Stampley has put together a moving collection of excerpts from recent blog and non-blog items on the middle east. (She kindly included a bit of mine, but it would be fine work regardless.)
Perry de Havilland captures the full gravity of the ethnic cleansing option.
Diana Moon has an idea what’s really going on while Arafat’s […]

Patrick Nielsen Hayden links to a disgusting little item in the Arab News, aprrovingly citing the same bogus Ben Franklin quote that appears on the Posse Comitatus website and other places. (No link to the Posse Comitatus website - Unqualified Offerings has its limits.) In the quote, “Ben Franklin” urges the Continental Congress to “exclude […]

Any man’s death diminisheth me, but the same does not apply to the Washington Post’s op-ed cartoons. Since the passing of the legendary, boring and unfunny Herblock, the Post has been using rotating cartoonists, because, they solemnly intoned, no single cartoonist could replace the incumbent, or at least not yet. So Post readers been getting […]

Sean H. Smith, “a graduate student at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government,” has an interesting contrarian argument about David Letterman and Ted Koppel in Today’s Post. No, I didn’t think “Kennedy School of Government” and “contrarian” went together either. But facts is facts. Smith argues that what he calls “pop television” actually […]

In the course of a column supporting war against Iraq and discussing Tony Blair’s upcoming trip to the US, David Ignatius writes
(I must caution my fellow scribe William Safire, grande plume of the New York Times op-ed page, that Blair will not be bringing evidence confirming secret meetings in Prague between al Qaeda operatives and […]

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 […]