President Obama and the now-vex’d Bermoothes.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 12th at 09:30 PM  | 

You know, it’s not the fact that we’re apparently on the verge of toppling another foreign government that bemuses me, per se; toppling foreign governments is one of those things that the United States of America simply does, as a byproduct of our very existence.  Whether or not that’s an inherently good thing is going to be a matter of some debate – particularly if | Read More »

The White House has found a place for the Uighurs! Palau!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 10th at 08:57 AM  | 

8,188.82 miles away from Washington, DC (if this site is to be believed), which is actually about 8,000 miles less than I expected. Then again, there probably isn’t anything there except empty ocean*, and if the administration was just going to dump terrorists into the water it would have said so. Palau (Who?) to Take in 17 Uighurs The obscure Pacific nation of Palau, one | Read More »

Germany disinclined to acquiesce to Obama’s Uighur request.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 9th at 06:52 AM  | 

As Track-A-’Crat notes, the administration is at best spinning its difficulties to get anybody else to take the Uighurs. The President is claiming that there have been no hard commitments, which implies that negotiations for giving some over to Germany are still going on: Strictly speaking, that may be true. But according to information obtained by SPIEGEL, Germany has long since blocked the idea of | Read More »