Blog Roundup - 2006-09-12
* Israel At Ground Level links to a sci-fi short story about a century-long war against political Islam. The visions in the story are chilling and quite likely represent some of what will happen in the next 15 years. But author Dan Simmons is wrong - the war will certainly not last a century. Israel may be the victim of a WMD attack, Europe may be demographically overrun, but this war will not last a century. Not to be overly blunt, but either the forces of modernity or the jihadists will win long before then.
* Lileks. 9/11 video. Go.
* We heart Clarice Feldman, who has something to say about litigation facing our CIA operatives. If all our time wasn't already taken stalking Dahlia Lithwick and Alexandra of the eponymous All Things Beautiful, Ms. Feldman would be finding us really creepy right now. Really creepier (?).
* Speaking of Alexandra from the eponymous All Things Beautiful:
[T]his episode is yet again exposing how militant liberals increasingly treat free speech, civil liberties and all the rest with utter contempt, for they view these constitutional cornerstones of our society as nothing more than useful tools to further their ideologies; but only as long as they conform neatly with Liberal party doctrine. Any deviation, even the rumor of it, unleashes the militant left into overdrive, mobilizing a systematic efforts to suppress and censor such political diversity.
Our lawyer says that we have to stop putting restraining order jokes at the bottom of every link to ATB because (a) "it'll make an insanity defense more difficult" and (b) "they're not funny". Everyone's a critic.
* Israellycool: This is too easy. But we'll call it in-bounds because it links the idea of the French being effete surrender-monkeys to how the UNIFIL force structure totally screws Israel.
* Also from Israellycool: You know who's going to be really pissed off - but we mean, really really pissed off - about this? Meryl Yourish, of Yourish.com. Holy hell, is she going to be pissed.
* Gates of Vienna has a post on the other September 11th:
September 11th, 1683, the day when an alliance of Christian armies led by Jan III Sobieski, the King of Poland, arrived at the Gates of Vienna. The Ottoman Empire had been expanding into Europe ever since Constantinople fell to the Turks, and even before that. Wherever the Muslim armies went, they plundered cities, took slaves, turned churches into mosques, and converted many thousands of Christian captives to Islam at the point of a sword... One of the main reasons the Turks had had such success in the Balkans and Eastern Europe was that their Christian enemies were unable to unite against them. Since the Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire were one and the same thing, Islam experienced no such fractiousness, and it was a united horde that advanced inexorably through the mountain passes and across the plains towards Vienna... It was then, at the last possible moment on the evening of September 11th, that Jan Sobieski arrived at a hill north of the city, leading a force of 40,000 Poles and their German and Austrian allies. The battle began soon afterwards, in the early morning hours of September 12th... The battle was over in three hours. The King drove through the Turkish lines, and, seeing his success, the Vienna garrison sallied forth from the city and hit the Turks from the rear.
And for their troubles, Poland has been thanklessly torn apart by the West ever since - the Bush administration being no exception.
* Boker Tov, Boulder on the Harvard administration's pathetic excuses re the Khatami visit. Not amused. Also, Jerry Gordon at IsraPundit passes on what Khatami wants you to know: Hezbollah is sweet
* Smooth Stone is pissed. We kind of are too, but this is a family blog and so we can't talk the way he does. The phrase "you're not bullet-proof" also makes an appearance.
* Israel Matsav: This is a not-so-subtle reminder that Israel awaits you...
* IsraPundit's Bill Levinson continues working at his second job: tracking really evil posts from MoveOn.org. Special 9/11 edition: George Bush as bad as Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden. Seriously.
* Lileks. 9/11 video. Go.
* We heart Clarice Feldman, who has something to say about litigation facing our CIA operatives. If all our time wasn't already taken stalking Dahlia Lithwick and Alexandra of the eponymous All Things Beautiful, Ms. Feldman would be finding us really creepy right now. Really creepier (?).
* Speaking of Alexandra from the eponymous All Things Beautiful:
[T]his episode is yet again exposing how militant liberals increasingly treat free speech, civil liberties and all the rest with utter contempt, for they view these constitutional cornerstones of our society as nothing more than useful tools to further their ideologies; but only as long as they conform neatly with Liberal party doctrine. Any deviation, even the rumor of it, unleashes the militant left into overdrive, mobilizing a systematic efforts to suppress and censor such political diversity.
Our lawyer says that we have to stop putting restraining order jokes at the bottom of every link to ATB because (a) "it'll make an insanity defense more difficult" and (b) "they're not funny". Everyone's a critic.
* Israellycool: This is too easy. But we'll call it in-bounds because it links the idea of the French being effete surrender-monkeys to how the UNIFIL force structure totally screws Israel.
* Also from Israellycool: You know who's going to be really pissed off - but we mean, really really pissed off - about this? Meryl Yourish, of Yourish.com. Holy hell, is she going to be pissed.
* Gates of Vienna has a post on the other September 11th:
September 11th, 1683, the day when an alliance of Christian armies led by Jan III Sobieski, the King of Poland, arrived at the Gates of Vienna. The Ottoman Empire had been expanding into Europe ever since Constantinople fell to the Turks, and even before that. Wherever the Muslim armies went, they plundered cities, took slaves, turned churches into mosques, and converted many thousands of Christian captives to Islam at the point of a sword... One of the main reasons the Turks had had such success in the Balkans and Eastern Europe was that their Christian enemies were unable to unite against them. Since the Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire were one and the same thing, Islam experienced no such fractiousness, and it was a united horde that advanced inexorably through the mountain passes and across the plains towards Vienna... It was then, at the last possible moment on the evening of September 11th, that Jan Sobieski arrived at a hill north of the city, leading a force of 40,000 Poles and their German and Austrian allies. The battle began soon afterwards, in the early morning hours of September 12th... The battle was over in three hours. The King drove through the Turkish lines, and, seeing his success, the Vienna garrison sallied forth from the city and hit the Turks from the rear.
And for their troubles, Poland has been thanklessly torn apart by the West ever since - the Bush administration being no exception.
* Boker Tov, Boulder on the Harvard administration's pathetic excuses re the Khatami visit. Not amused. Also, Jerry Gordon at IsraPundit passes on what Khatami wants you to know: Hezbollah is sweet
* Smooth Stone is pissed. We kind of are too, but this is a family blog and so we can't talk the way he does. The phrase "you're not bullet-proof" also makes an appearance.
* Israel Matsav: This is a not-so-subtle reminder that Israel awaits you...
* IsraPundit's Bill Levinson continues working at his second job: tracking really evil posts from MoveOn.org. Special 9/11 edition: George Bush as bad as Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden. Seriously.
