counterspin central has a nice entry about the U.S. asking other nations to send in their troops to help clean up the mess after they were given the big U.S. middle finger earlier this year.
"(...) anyone sending their young men and women into harm's way would want them under competent military leadership provided by the U.S."
Colin Powell
thought you knew what "competent" meant?
oh, something i've been meaning to blog out a few weeks ago. but it came up once again yesterday so here goes:
in the past few weeks we've heard that Al-Qaeda might be preparing a 9/11-style attack on the United States. yet, the terror alert level has been stuck at yellow/elevated for months now. why is that? if it's so god damned important as another 9/11 wouldn't you think the White House would be making the terror alert more serious than this? i mean, we've been up to orange more than a couple of times earlier this year and no attacks have occured on U.S. soil. and it's not like the administration's trying to hide this possibility, they're the ones who got the news out. so why hasn't their precious terror alert reflected this most serious of possiblities?
i found one likely answer: George's month-long vacation. i think that by now we know pretty much that august is the month-of-the-King so we're not surprised every year when the White House announces Bush is going to Crawford. rants against this practice dwindle down pretty much with every year. so he's safe. but don't rock the boat by going all-out and making it official by raising the terror alert to orange or even red. oh no. don't do that. the King is sleeping.
ps. Al-Qaeda's busiest time of the year? august to november.
yep.
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