julescrittenden.com - 12/2/2008
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Obama says India can whack Paks, if that's where the investigation goes.* Sovereign nations and all. Times of India:
WASHINGTON: Sovereign nations have the right to protect themselves, US president-elect Barack Obama said on Monday, when asked if India could follow the same policy he advocated ...
washingtonpost.com - 12/7/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Reactionary liberalism, the ideology of many Democrats, holds
that inconvenient rights, such as secret ballots in unionization
elections, should be repealed; that existing failures, such as GM, should be preserved; and, with special perversity, that ...
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The Fairness Doctrine Fouls Out
julescrittenden.com - 11/26/2008
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Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George
Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of
Defense. Politico: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. ...
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Thanks, George
julescrittenden.com - 11/29/2008
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Roggio, Long War Journal, with a long examination
of how the Mumbai attacks differed from past terrorism
attacks: military-style assaults on multiple targets led to three days of fighting: The Mumbai attack is unique from past terror strikes carried ...
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... writes. But overly siding with India could alienate Pakistan’s radicals and seriously destabilize the situation between the two nuclear states, Jules Crittenden blogs. FROM THE BLOGS: ...
Good job, Skippy
Silent Running —
Another historic first. Skippy* just might become the first US President to precipitate a war before even taking the oath of office. Nice. [ * - Somehow, it just fits as a tag handle for Barry O. Think that’s what I’m going to use from now on to refer to ‘the one’] ...
SHERMAN VS. GREENWALD. “Understand that I am a native of Atlanta, taught from the cradle to hate She…
Instapundit —
... that bombardment despite warnings. Surely Hamas has no right to complain of the predictable consequences. . . . I would remind Glenn Greenwald of the words of Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor, who declared that the 9/11 attacks represented ‘chickens coming home to roost’ for America. Is it not possible, by the same standard, to see the Israeli attacks on Gaza as ‘chickens coming home to roost’ for the Palestinians?”
Meanwhile, what about the Obama Doctrine?
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If The US Can Bomb Pakistan Why Can’t India?
firedoglake.com 12/2/2008 —
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Looks like the Indian press wants the same rights to bomb other countries the US has been claiming, and they're trying to use Obama's words to justify it:
Sovereign nations have the right to protect themselves, US ...
Obama: India Has the Right to Protect Itself —
PoliGazette
Speaking Monday , U.S. president-elect Barack Obama said that India is a sovereign country and has, as a result, every right to protect itself.
He said so in response to questions whether he would support India if it would use military force against terrorists in Pakistan.
During the ...