Good People Better Rise Up!: War on Terror: August 2006 Archives

August 3, 2006

A Four Front War?

Sid Blumenthal has a big one in Salon. An excerpt: The National Security Agency is providing signal intelligence to Israel to monitor whether Syria and Iran are supplying new armaments... [More]

I HAD A LONG POST ABOUT ISRAEL, IRAQ, AND THE WAR ON TRERROR PLANNED, BUT...

I think I'll give you the short version instead: You can kill people. You cannot kill ideas. Until we understand that we will never win the "war on terror."... [More]

"I Have Never Painted a Rosy Picture"

Lies, lies, and more lies. Rumsfeld graced the US Senate with his presence today, and yes, Zakaria is right - Rumsfeld clearly is living in some sort of parallel universe.... [More]

Significant Threats

From Laura Rozen: From a colleague covering the conflict in Israel: "Almost everyone I talk to here is now saying the Iraq war has presented one of the most significant... [More]

August 5, 2006

The Security Council has spoken. Will Israel and Hezbollah listen? France and the United States reached agreement Saturday on a Security Council resolution to halt the fighting in Lebanon, even... [More]

August 8, 2006

Digging A Deeper Hole

Glenn Greenwald is guest posting over at Salon.com this week, and his effort today is absolutely spot on. Here's an excerpt: In his radio address last weekend, George W. Bush... [More]

August 9, 2006

Meanwhile, in the White House...

Laws? Those are for the common folk: The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers... [More]

August 10, 2006

Terror Plots (Updated)

I'm with Josh on this.... It's one thing when the adminsitration was moving the color coded terrror alert system up and down willy nilly in the run up to the... [More]

Unintentional Irony

Within minutes of one another, two comments from the kids at NRO's Corner... One: Peddling the Realist Kool-Aid [Michael Rubin] ...Substance should always mean more than process. Two... Let's See... [More]

Says Who?

Via ThinkProgress, we get this great commentary from Tom DeLay: They don’t want to fight this war on terrorism. If they did, Bill Clinton would have led us into the... [More]

An Important Reminder

Given today's events, now might be a good time to remind everyone of this report from just last month: The CIA has closed down a secret unit that for a... [More]

August 11, 2006

Coming Unhinged (UPDATED)

This is all really getting a bit ridiculous. Following Lamont's victory on Tuesday, the primary Republican talking point was that, essentially, the Democrats had become the party of terrorist sympathizers.... [More]

August 12, 2006

Go Ahead, Matt, Say It!

Yglesias is up late tonight: Israel had every reason to desire the permament dismemberment of Hezbollah, by force if necessary, but no reason to think that there was any actual... [More]

What the London Terror Arrests Tell Us About NSA Wiretapping

Glenn Greenwald is right to remind us.... a major terror plot was foiled through the combined efforts of US and UK law enforcement, and on both sides of the pond... [More]

It's All A Matter of Timing

Interesting story from NBC News: NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot... [More]

"We Must Be Patient..."

Anonymous Liberal lays out one of the best answers I've yet seen to the charge that the Dems don't yet have a "master plan" for fighting terrorism. What if what's... [More]

August 13, 2006

Forbearace?

Interesting piece in today's Boston Globe from Laura Rozen.... The title? Islamic radical groups are not all alike. Here's the part that caught my attention: While there's been ample discussion... [More]

NYTimes Withheld NSA Article in 2004 in Attempt to Avoid Influencing Election

Bill Keller's explanation is ludicrous. Fairness? Take a look: Holding a fresh draft of the story just days before the election also was an issue of fairness, Mr. Keller said.... [More]

August 15, 2006

Blame America First? (Updated)

A few weeks back, I noticed that Bush had made the odd admission (for a Republican at least) that resentment over US foreign policy had in large part caused 9/11.... [More]

And While I'm On The Subject

And while I'm on the subject of blame, I'd be remiss if I didn't pass along this fabulous post from Glenn Greenwald. For nearly 5 years, those on the right... [More]

Shorter George Will: John Kerry Was Right

Read for yourself: The London plot against civil aviation confirmed a theme of an illuminating new book, Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11." The theme... [More]

"The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld Position"

That's Bill Clinton's take on Joe Lieberman.... [More]

Chuck Roberts Apologizes to Ned Lamont

A quick followup on this story from earlier in the week... Chuck Roberts has now officially apologized to Ned Lamont for suggesting that he is "the Al-Qaeda candidate." Take a... [More]

The Gratuitous One-Armed Man

A reader remonstrates: What the hell does the race and gender of the employees of the TSA have to do with their ability/inability to keep the public secure? He's referring... [More]

August 16, 2006

"Beside the Point"

Josh seems to have had a revelation. I can't say the recent arrests in London hit me the same way, but nevertheless, I suspect he might not be alone on... [More]

This Is Why We Fight?

Meanwhile, in our other war.... KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels - up by more than 40 percent from 2005 - despite hundreds of... [More]

August 17, 2006

"There Are No Hereditary Kings in America" (UPDATED)

In case you haven't heard yet, a big HUGE victory for both civil liberties and the rule of law today. A federal judge in Detroit ordered a halt to the... [More]

A Serious Plot?

More doubts today about the seriousness of the threat posed by the terror cell recently broken up in London. Their plan for mixing the chemicals while onboard the plane? Via... [More]

More on the NSA Wiretapping Ruling

I had promised to continue updating this previous post with commentary from other blogs, but this post from Glenn Greenwald is too good not to single out. Thus, judicial decisions... [More]

Off The Bus

Via NRO's Corner, it seems that one of the Iraq war's strongest supporters just got off the bus. And when I say off the bus, I mean off the bus.... [More]

August 18, 2006

Fundamentalism In Action

Here's a quote that demonstrates perfectly the "fundamentalist mindset" I was discussing yesterday. In reaction to yesterday's ruling on the NSA wiretapping program, Bush said the following: “I would say... [More]

August 19, 2006

The Experts Speak, and They Disagee

With a few days now between us and the ruling by a federal judge that this administration's NSA wiretapping program was unconstitutional, the experts have had the time to look... [More]

August 20, 2006

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan....

This is what happens when you don't finish the wars you start. "If we die, we are martyrs - if we live, we are victors," say the Taliban in the... [More]

August 21, 2006

Respecting the Rule of Law

Publius adds his latest installment in the ongoing debate over last week's ruling on NSA wiretapping. I love Greenwald's work, and I'm entirely sympathetic to his conclusions, but I think... [More]

For the Record, From the Man Himself

C+L has the video of today's presidential press conference. In his own words: QUESTION: A lot of the consequences you mentioned for pulling out seem like maybe they never would... [More]

August 25, 2006

"We're Doing Exactly What The Terroists Want"

Via Cato Institute, here's an excellent post by Bruce Schneier, one of the world's foremost security experts, on our illogical and counterproductive approach to the "war on terror."The highlight: The... [More]

What the Public Really Thinks

Check out the lead from the latest CNN poll: Less than half of Americans believe the United States is now safer from terrorism than it was before September 11, 2001,... [More]

August 26, 2006

A Digital Pearl Harbor?

From Foreign Affairs: The United States is gradually losing the online war against terrorists. Rather than aggressively pursuing its enemies, the U.S. government has adopted a largely defensive strategy, the... [More]

August 28, 2006

When Crafting New Military Law, Military Lawyers Need Not Apply

Pathetic. And stupid. Despite assuring Congress that career military lawyers are helping design new trials for accused terrorists, the Bush administration has limited their input on their key request, that... [More]

August 29, 2006

"Rumsfeld is a Buffoon"

Well now... I was planning on responding in full this evening to Rumsfeld's idiotic speech last night before the American Legion. In the span of a rather short speech, the... [More]

The Truth, In Full

How misguided do you have to be to demand that a 9/11 documentary be edited to remove real-life profanity spoken by real-life firefighters on the day the real-life Twin Towers... [More]

August 30, 2006

Please... Stop the Nonsense (UPDATED)

Blogging 101: When you think of it, write it. Otherwise someone else will write it for you. While I was out at work today, Matthew Yglesias was apparently reading my... [More]

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