Pakistanis admit to firing first on NATO troops.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 29th at 10:45 AM  | 

Via Drudge comes the beginnings of clarity on this issue: it’s now being tacitly admitted by the Pakistan government that Saturday’s conflict was initiated by their own troops.  Essentially, Afghan/American troops were raiding Taliban in Afghanistan when Pakistan troops fired on them (the Pakistan government maintains that their troops were attacking on what they thought were insurgents).  NATO airstrikes were the result, which shot up | Read More »

Jan Schakowsky (D, IL): SEALs are criminals!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 16th at 01:00 PM  | 

Rep. Schakowsky, attempting to explain why photos of the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden would not be released, had this to say: “These are pictures of a violent crime scene. This is a dead person. A dead Osama bin Laden,” she said. Now, I will readily grant that normally a statement like this should be subject to Occam’s Razor.  The simplest way to | Read More »

BREAKING: ThinkProgress pig-ignorant about military.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 8th at 05:00 PM  | 

Legal Insurrection tipped me to this one: apparently, ThinkProgress (link available via Legal Insurrection) got itself in a bit of a tizzy over a story in the Mexican press that one of the Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden was the son of Mexican immigrants, which apparently means (according to TP) that we need to pass the DREAM Act* and that the military is | Read More »

Europe starting to talk about ‘war crimes?’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 5th at 01:00 PM  | 

Pajamas Media took a survey of various European media sources and their evolving reaction to the Osama bin Laden excision.  It will not surprise anyone in the slightest to hear that the level of disapproval has been increasing all week, with many an envious sneer along the way.  The German response is particularly telling  (they’re usually a leading indicator of Left-wing antiwar thinking*): even the | Read More »

Oh, so *what* if Obama’s backtracking on having bin Laden killed be our highest priority?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 14th at 11:00 PM  | 

(Links via Legal Insurrection, via Instapundit) Just because Obama said it back in October: And if we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we have to act & we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden; we will crush Al Qaeda. That has to be our | Read More »