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Afghanistan
Taking Stock in Afghanistan
There are not a lot of good weeks in Afghanistan. But last week was particularly bad. At least 26 American or NATO soldiers were killed in attacks by insurgents. The commanding general, Stanley McChrystal, announced that his long promised offensive in the Taliban's home base of Kandahar would be delayed for months.

Then The Times reported that Afghan officials say President Hamid Karzai is trying to strike a secret deal with the Taliban and Pakistan and doubts that the Americans and NATO can ever defeat the insurgents.

General McChrystal's counterinsurgency strategy still seems like the best chance to stabilize Afghanistan and get American troops home. His aim is to push militants out of key cities and towns and quickly build up effective local governments so residents have the incentive and means to help stop extremists from returning.

That theory ran into harsh reality the first time General McChrystal tried to apply it, in the city of Marja, a lesser Taliban stronghold. Four months after American troops drove fighters out of Marja's center, there is no functioning government, international aid programs lag, and the Taliban are coming back. A surge of assassinations of local officials in Marja and Kandahar has made Afghans all the more fearful about cooperating with the Americans and their own government.

We have not seen a full assessment of the Marja operation. General McChrystal said that he now plans to spend more time in Kandahar cultivating local support, improving public services and building up local governance. Building competent Afghan army and police forces has clearly proved far harder than expected. The same is true for fostering and protecting honest and committed Afghan officials.

Western officials and experts also say that the American military found it hard to read — and in some instances they misread — the complex tribal and societal relationships in both places. Nearly nine years after the Americans arrived in Afghanistan, American intelligence agencies, civilian and military, seem to be flying blind. That is intolerable.

Then there is the fundamental question of whether President Karzai can — or is interested in — building an effective government. Mr. Karzai got what he wanted from a recent national peace conference — a mandate to appoint a government commission to begin talks with the Taliban. That makes reports that he is trying to cut a private deal especially worrying.

We are also very concerned about his decision to force the resignation of two top security officials. Both were seen as competent and honest. And we found it bizarre that Mr. Karzai is telling aides that he believed the United States, and not the Taliban, might have been responsible for a rocket attack on the conference in Kabul.

The Americans still haven't figured out how to manage Mr. Karzai. Reviving a public fight with him isn't going to work, but they need to make clear that there's a limit to American patience — and that they will only support peace talks that have a specific set of red lines.

The basic civil rights of Afghans — particularly women and girls — cannot be up for negotiation. There can be no place in Afghanistan for Al Qaeda or the Taliban's worst abusers. It is way too soon for Mr. Karzai to be pushing to remove the Taliban from the United Nations terrorist blacklist.

We don't know if the Taliban leaders will ever compromise. But we are sure that they will consider it only under duress. General McChrystal is going to have to do a much better job in Kandahar. Mr. Karzai is going to have to drop his illusions and commit to the fight.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 06/14/2010 15:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Investors are betting on a Black Monday-style collapse, BoE warns
Investors are placing bets on a Black Monday-style crash in the British stock market at the fastest rate since the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank in 2008, the Bank of England has warned.
Posted by: tipper || 06/14/2010 13:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  2.21 pm and the Footsie up 38.5 points...
Posted by: Grunter || 06/14/2010 14:23 Comments || Top||

#2  the number of investors betting on a 20 per cent fall in the FTSE 100 index, based on their purchase of options connected to such a scenario, had risen from below 5 per cent to about 13 per cent in the past month alone.

These things are normally contrary indicators.

But the merde has to hit the fan fairly soon in the soveriegn debt crisis, next 12 months IMO.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/14/2010 21:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Interesting that they chose to put out such a bearish press release. Perhaps a shot at the EUro?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 06/14/2010 21:42 Comments || Top||


Special relationship?
h/t Instapundit
The USA is my favourite foreign country -- but I never forget that it is foreign, and has often been our enemy and our rival. So I am rather pleased that President Barack Obama has openly shown hostility to this country over the BP oil spill, unlike several of his forerunners, who smiled at us while doing us down.

It may help us all grow up and stop fawning on Washington. Far too many people -- many of them academics, many politicians -- continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two countries.

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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2010 03:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Keep in mind when reading the article that this is the (lesser) brother and rival of Christopher Hitchens. He's detested the US for many years, and that only intensified when his brother took citizenship here, which required renouncing his British citizenship since the US does not recognize dual citizenship status.

And ... this American bloodly well does know where Wales is since my maternal great-grandparents, David Llywelyn Davies and his wife Esther, came from the south Wales coal region.

However, we are hearing from British friends that Obama has infuriated the country with his deliberate slights, combined with demands for punitive financial actions against BP at a time when the British economy is even more precarious than ours. The lesser Hitchens will find willing readers, alas.
Posted by: lotp || 06/14/2010 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  since the US does not recognize dual citizenship status.

That's what I thought. But I have friends who just became American citizens who kept their Canadian citizenship... and one of them kept the Mexican citizenship he hadn't given up when he became Canadian, as well.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/14/2010 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  The US does not recognize dual citizenships, but those countries do. Same with the UK. Ms. Lotp is contemplating marrying her British beloved, at which point she would gain dual citizenship according to British law but not in the eyes of US law.
Posted by: lotp || 06/14/2010 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  So Bambi obtained his scholarships under false pretenses?
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 06/14/2010 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  A lot of Brits felt the special relationship should have ended during Bush's admin, some said it was already dead. I think they are now realizing how cozy it actually was most of the time. At some point if things aren't repaired tourism dollars will start to dry up as well (that is worse than the economy has made them), then a number of folks will really regret having their dreams come true.

At this point the Australians should be making a full press on turning their close friendship into a special relationship.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/14/2010 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  I have been having a running argument with brits on one of their discussion sites. I point out that if GM did something like BP did in the US everybody in the US would not stand behind GM right or wrong...

I think it is provincialism on the part of the Brits!

Posted by: 3dc || 06/14/2010 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  It's my understanding that the US will recognize dual citizenship if it is bestowed upon someone, but not if it is requested. Of course, several countries have put in place mechanisms to get around this.
Posted by: gorb || 06/14/2010 10:27 Comments || Top||

#8  everybody in the US would not stand behind GM right or wrong...


You would if your retirement depended wholly or in large part on dividends from GM. In the universe of safe, stable investments for British pensioners, BP is the 800-lb gorilla. Most pension funds in the UK have significant exposure to BP, which, despite the spill, is still one of the world's biggest and best-run cash cows.

That Bambi is trashing BP and causing its price to crater is a source of deep and very serious concern to any Briton over the age of 50. He's singlehandedly jeopardizing their retirement prospects. I'd be furious, too.

I seriously doubt that any GOP president of recent years would be playing the cards that Bambi's playing now. At a minimum, they'd be working quietly, behind the scenes.
Posted by: lex || 06/14/2010 12:07 Comments || Top||

#9  He's singlehandedly jeopardizing their retirement prospects.

I'm beginning to wonder if that's the point. We all know how Bambi hates all things British, and his current rhetoric is perfectly in tune to the Cloven-Pickard strategy.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/14/2010 12:50 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm increasingly inclined to believe that he's relishing the chance to stick it to the Brits. No other explanation makes sense here, given how shabbily he's treated them-- again and again and again.
Posted by: lex || 06/14/2010 16:34 Comments || Top||

#11  Aw, c'mon Pete! No hard feelings just because one your biggest corporations just polluted the hell out of the Gulf of Mexico, ruined the fishing, ruined the property values, ruined the lives of everybody who lives there. We're not upset! /sarc

Like hell we're not. Friends don't treat each other that way. We're sorry about Obama and we're gonna pay the price for electing him whether we all realize it yet or not. Now you can man up and be sorry about BP and you can bloody well pay up too. It's called responsibility.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/14/2010 16:58 Comments || Top||

#12  I don't know about the GM comparison but I remember a British nanny killing an American infant and the Britts rallied around the Nan y and villidied the family. When a US kid spray painted cars in Singapore and was sentenced to be canned the families attempts to rally the US to support them resulted in folks in the US agreeing with Skngapore.

The US doesn't tend to rally around the flag at the drop of a hat. Perhaps that's part of Being the hyperpower.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 06/14/2010 19:02 Comments || Top||

#13  I take the long view. In time, the leak WILL BE STOPPED and BP will recover. The oil will dissipate and fishing will be better than ever. Unfortunately, it will NOT be the same for America under Obama however.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/14/2010 19:11 Comments || Top||

#14  since the US does not recognize dual citizenship status

My boyfriend has an American mother and a British father, and thus has both nationalities (plus a Euro passport now).

He was once considering a job -- I'm not sure it was firm enough to be called an offer -- with the US government which would have required him to renounce his British citizenship. He balked at that.

But that suggests that the US recognizes the dual citizenship, at least to the extent that it recognizes it would be inconvenient in that case.
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 06/14/2010 20:27 Comments || Top||

#15  Man of the world, man of nowhere. Tragic that. Forgive me, but I'd be shopping Angie.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/14/2010 21:37 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia peers into Kyrgyz void
Posted by: tipper || 06/14/2010 13:04 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Kyrgyz crisis tops Russian headlines for four days, rest of world couldn't care less
Given the Kyrgyz Republic's status as a former Soviet state, as well as the presence of several hundred thousand ethnic Russians there, Russian media sources have been reporting intensively on the violence in the south of the country. For example, the website of Russia's most widely-read paper, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, has devoted virtually the entire first screen of its main page to Kyrgyz events for several days running.

Interestingly, the epic violence has generated little interest in the USA, even less in Europe or the Muslim countries, and none at all in so-called "international diplomatic circles". With unofficial death toll estimates standing at over 500, two major towns half-destroyed by arson, and more than 100,000 refugees--judging by photographs, almost all of them women and very young children--having already crossed into neighboring Uzbekistan, one would think that the last week's most intense episode of ethnic cleansing and butchery would merit an emergency session of the United Nations and eager calls for a peacekeeping intervention and a massive humanitarian airlift--especially as the Kyrgyz government is begging for both. But of course, none of that is happening.

In an interview posted on the respected, Russia-based, pan-Central Asian news website Fergana.ru, Danish journalist Michael Andersen laments the lack of interest on the part of his fellow EU residents (partial translation follows):

"I am ashamed that in Europe, neither the media nor the politicians are reacting to events in Kyrgyzstan... If you compare this with Georgia (in August 2008), that episode involved flashy television footage, that involved "our enemy", Putin, and "our friend", Saakashvili. But as for what is happening in Osh, Europeans don't understand. Who are these "Uzbeks" and "Kyrgyz"? 99 percent of Europeans don't even imagine that such people exist. Even if a Western politician started reacting to the events in Osh, that would not make him more popular."

Of particular irony is that Mr. Andersen most likely does not even have a venue to convey these thoughts in his native Denmark. Instead, he must turn to a Russia-based news source, which will print his comments in Russian.

Of course, if the ethno-national identity of the victims in this drama began with "Pal" and ended with "estinian", this would the world's top headline from the get-go, and governments would be lining up around the block to send peacekeepers and/or large-scale humanitarian assistance (which is desperately needed, as little bitty babies are starving to death in Kyrgyzstan even as I write this). Perhaps there would even be protests outside some embassy or other, and flags would be burned by angry bearded men shouting "death to so-and-so".

Sure makes you wonder what else might be going on in our complex world that is flying under the radar of the naive, self-righteous, selectively-attentive, "Save Gaza/Palestine/Tibet/Chiapas/the whales" crowd.
Posted by: tipper || 06/14/2010 09:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Accept grim truth -- Illinois is broke
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 06/14/2010 15:40 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ... and Chicago is a freaking war zone!
Posted by: Jefferson || 06/14/2010 19:32 Comments || Top||


Europe
The New York Times Has a Freudian Slip on Geert Wilders' Victory
One can always count on the New York Times to be biased and boringly predicable -- traits which have rendered it to be the one thing it must dread becoming: irrelevant.

By being in favor of freedom of speech, female equality, and gay rights, Wilders serves to exclude Muslims from the Dutch political consensus
The Times article on the recent Dutch elections does not disappoint. Dutch elections would normally not garner even a back page passing reference, but when candidate Geert Wilders finishes a strong third place, doubling Party of Freedom parliamentary count to 24 seats, the world, and the Times, pays attention. Readers of NewsReal Blog and FrontPage know Wilder's story well and we know reflexively that the Times will regurgitate the usual drivel in describing Wilders. Anti everything, extremist, far-right, and the inevitable linking to a neo Nazis such as the late Austrian politician Jorg Haider. (Can these Times reporters even try to be original anymore?)

Even the Times, however, can trip on itself; interesting nuggets can slip through the sensors that allow for amazing candidness and clear thought, even if by happenstance.

The Times calls on a Dutch academic to enlighten us to one of the secrets of Wilder's success:

Dick Houtman, a professor of political sociology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, said that Mr. Wilders had built on Mr. Fortuyn's legacy, successfully avoiding the overtly racist language of far-right politicians in other countries by highlighting issues like freedom of speech, female equality and gay rights. "That serves to exclude Muslims from the Dutch political consensus," he said. (emphasis mine)

Maybe this statement is too obvious for the Times to pick up on. But read it again. By being in favor of freedom of speech, female equality, and gay rights, Wilders serves to exclude Muslims from the Dutch political consensus! How dare he? Extreme indeed! Apparently to be part of the postmodern Western "political consensus", too be inclusive of Muslims, we need to be against freedom of speech, gay rights and female equality?

Houtman, aware of it or not, has made a brilliant, if obvious, observation. In order for many Muslim immigrants to feel culturally and politically included in the West, most clearly in Holland, they need to exist in an environment that is not open to the pluralistic, open and free West of the Enlightenment of the past 300 years.

So when a Western politician like Wilders openly embraces the values of liberty, he is called an extremist, hate monger and radical with ties to neo Nazis. The elite class, currently in Washington and throughout the halls of Western academia and the media, feel it more important to be inclusive of Muslims then holding true to the values that created the most open and free society the world has ever seen. And to oppose this new orthodoxy makes one a criminal, as the Left hopes to make of Wilders.

We can thank the Times for offering some clarity on this issue. Who would have thunk it.
Posted by: tipper || 06/14/2010 08:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think we might make that a bumper sticker.

"Making issues like Freedom of Speech, equality amongst all humans and tolerance to all, central to our political climate, will serve to exclude those that seek to take freedom away."
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/14/2010 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The final vote tallies for the election aren't due until tomorrow the 15th. I wonder if there will be any last minute seat adjustments?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/14/2010 9:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't he also want to ban the Koran?
Posted by: Gaz || 06/14/2010 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't he also want to ban the Koran?

As I recall, Gaz, Mr Wilders has said that the Koran is as bad as Mein Kampf.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/14/2010 16:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Other National Debt
About that $14 trillion national debt: Get ready to tack some zeroes onto it. Taken alone, the amount of debt issued by the federal government -- that $14 trillion figure that shows up on the national ledger -- is a terrifying, awesome, hellacious number: Fourteen trillion seconds ago, Greenland was covered by lush and verdant forests, and the Neanderthals had not yet been outwitted and driven into extinction by Homo sapiens sapiens, because we did not yet exist. Big number, 14 trillion, and yet it doesn't even begin to cover the real indebtedness of American governments at the federal, state, and local levels, because governments don't count up their liabilities the same way businesses do.

Accountants get a bad rap -- boring, green-eyeshades-wearing, nebbishy little men chained to their desks down in the fluorescent-lit basements of Corporate America -- but, in truth, accountants wield an awesome power. In the case of the federal government, they wield the power to make vast amounts of debt disappear -- from the public discourse, at least. A couple of months ago, you may recall, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., State of Bankruptcy) got his Fruit of the Looms in a full-on buntline hitch when AT&T, Caterpillar, Verizon, and a host of other blue-chip behemoths started taking plus-size writedowns in response to some of the more punitive provisions of the health-care legislation Mr. Waxman had helped to pass. His little mustache no doubt bristling in indignation, Representative Waxman sent dunning letters to the CEOs of these companies and demanded that they come before Congress to explain their accounting practices. One White House staffer told reporters that the writedowns appeared to be designed "to embarrass the president and Democrats."

A few discreet whispers from better-informed Democrats, along with a helpful explanation from The Atlantic's Megan McArdle under the headline "Henry Waxman's War on Accounting," helped to clarify the issue: The companies in question are required by law to adjust their financial statements to reflect the new liabilities: "When a company experiences what accountants call 'a material adverse impact' on its expected future earnings, and those changes affect an item that is already on the balance sheet, the company is required to record the negative impact -- 'to take the charge against earnings' -- as soon as it knows that the change is reasonably likely to occur," McArdle wrote. "The Democrats, however, seem to believe that Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are some sort of conspiracy against Obamacare, and all that is good and right in America." But don't be too hard on the gentleman from California: Government does not work that way. If governments did follow normal accounting practices, taking account of future liabilities today instead of pretending they don't exist, then the national-debt numbers we talk about would be worse -- far worse, dreadfully worse -- than that monster $14 trillion--and--ratcheting--upward figure we throw around.
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Posted by: logi_cal || 06/14/2010 09:41 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
NRB Interview: Andrew McCarthy and the Grand Jihad, Part 1
Part 2: Andrew McCarthy and the Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood

Part 3: The terrorists ARE the enemy
Posted by: ed || 06/14/2010 09:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Olde Tyme Religion
Losing Their Religion
Although many won't admit it, we are in the midst of an ideological war with Islam. And since the advantage goes to the side that fully realizes they are at war, the West is losing. The propaganda war is going in favor of Islam precisely because the West doesn't realize it is supposed to be fighting one. The ability of Islam to rally much of the world behind its hatred of Israel is a telling indication of who is winning the war of ideas. As for war aims, it's not clear that there are any. Even those who see the danger clearly rarely talk in terms of victory; they talk mainly in terms of resisting cultural jihad. You know you're in trouble when your ideological opponent is a primitive seventh-century belief system, and yet the best that your top strategists hope for is to put up a good resistance.

As the Dracula-like return of Communist ideology demonstrates, an ideological war needs to be fought to complete and total victory. The enemy ideology should be so thoroughly discredited that no one—not even its former staunchest defenders, not even the most doctrinaire college professor—will want to be associated with it. In regard to Islam, then, our aim should go beyond simply resisting jihad; it should be the defeat of Islam as an idea. But, aside from inflicting crushing military defeats on Islamic powers, how do you accomplish that?
Posted by: ed || 06/14/2010 07:22 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  you accomplish it by convincing the 7th century idiots of Islam to accept their own foolish ways as just that, foolish. The majority of the Iranian people, I believe , have already come to this conclusion. Unfortunately, they are held under the thumb of the " foolish wrinkled old men" of Islam, the Iranian Imams.
Posted by: 746 || 06/14/2010 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  The enemy ideology should be so thoroughly discredited that no one--not even its former staunchest defenders, not even the most doctrinaire college professor--will want to be associated with it. But that DID NOT HAPPEN with the fall of the Soviet Union. The enemy ideology moved into the colleges & universities of the USA, changed its terminology slightly, and became entrenched in the media.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/14/2010 23:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Professors Are In Charge
...OK -- Washington seems to run now along the logic of the faculty lounge. But let me explain the rules of Lala land. Some of you were not academics for 21 years. No problem, you can easily imagine what the worldview is on campus -- given that after six years on the job you cannot be fired except for felony conviction (and even that is problematic). After tenure a failure to publish and awful teaching evaluations mean nothing. "Post-tenure review" has the teeth of a UN investigation.

The in-class work week is about 6-8 hours. You toil at school 32 weeks a year. A hyphenated or exotic name often brings career rewards. Liberalism is defined by accentuating gender and racial differences, not ignoring them.

Peer review and faculty governance adjudicate talent, and academic senate votes resemble the margins of Saddam's old plebiscites.
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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2010 03:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The non-Christian nihilist Timothy McVeigh or the Columbine Satanists are proof of widespread Christian terrorism; the last 50 aborted Islamic terrorist plots are aberrations.

This sentence hits the nail on the head.
Posted by: WolfDog || 06/14/2010 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow.
Posted by: Perfesser || 06/14/2010 12:00 Comments || Top||

#3  It just occurred to me that my previous post could be misunderstood as my support of the "The Professors". I was trying to say the last sentence quoted speaks to the asinine absurdity of a large number of academics. Sorry 'bout the confusion.
Posted by: WolfDog || 06/14/2010 12:53 Comments || Top||

#4  My dad used to say, "There's nothing worse than a stupid professor." He was more right than he knew.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/14/2010 23:07 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2010-06-14
  4 cops killed in Algeria suicide kaboom
Sun 2010-06-13
  Son of Al Qaeda mentor Issam Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi 'killed in Iraq'
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  US missiles kill 15 Taliban in N Waziristan
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  Iran snarls at China over UNSC sanctions
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  UN slaps fourth set of sanctions on Iran
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  Pak: 50 NATO trucks torched on Motorway, 4 people dead
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  Suicide Bombers Attack Police Compound in Kandahar
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  Yemen detains 30 foreigners as Qaeda suspects
Sun 2010-06-06
  Two US men arrested at JFK airport on terrorist charges
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  SKorea seeks UN action against NKorea over ship
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  Hamas not a terrorist group, says Turkey's PM Recep Taqiyya Erdogan
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  U.S. Drone Strikes Come Under U.N. Human Rights Council Scrutiny
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