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The people debating whether we should be at war with Iran are ignoring the fact that we are already at war with Iran. The only question at this point is what terms this war will be fought on. Iranian soldiers have already exchanged fire with US troops when Iranians entered Iraq in order to kill or kidnap American soldiers. Iran has been repeatedly charged with being behind much of the terrorism in Iraq, both arming and directing operations and even recruiting terrorists and providing them with orders, using Sadr much as Iran has used Nasrallah in Lebanon. It is unknown how many American soldiers have been currently murdered by Iranian weapons, Iranian personnel or on Iranian orders, but the toll is likely a high one. The following excerpt from a larger article is an inside view of part of the Iranian terror operation in Iraq. Higher-ranking terrorist leaders are given laminated cards that make them untouchable by all Iranian officials, aside from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Must

It was 1991 and Edwin Edwards was running for reelection as the Governor of Louisiana. Edwards' corruption was legendary and he had faced multiple trials and indictments. Now in 1991 he was running against David Duke and bumper stickers and signs went up reading, " Vote for the Crook. It's important ." Well this time around John McCain is running against either Barack Hussein Obama or Hillary Clinton. Either one is as bad as David Duke. Obama is a Farrakhanite with a Muslim background, membership in a racist church and is backed by the Soros wing of the Democratic party. Hillary Clinton is a dogmatic far left wing activist with a socialist agenda that would turn America into the EU before she was done. Vote for John McCain. It's important. I am not a fan of McCain and I am not going to write in praise of him. I think McCain is a deeply flawed politician, I believe he will be even worse than Bush in every respect in which we are critical of Bush, I also belie

Two men are locked in a single room. One has a knife and the other has a machine gun. One is determined to kill the other. Which one will walk out of that room alive? The paradox of civilization is that superior force on the battlefield requires an industrial and intellectual culture capable of producing the technological innovations that make victory possible. Yet this is not a straight line progression, instead civilizations that use technology to create truly advanced and prosperous societies also hit what we might call Huxley's Peak, the point at which creature comforts and social decadence make the idea of force itself sublimely unattractive so that the very industrial and intellectual culture that creates a superior technological military also hamstrings it. European civilization looked Hitler and Stalin in the eye and froze. They froze not because their reluctance stemmed from a superior morality, but from an inferior one, the fussy decadent code of the morally lazy that is

It's hard to tell whether it's ironic or sad that the two Democratic party Presidential candidates running neck and neck, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, have never really won a straight election in their lives. Oh they have gotten elected but they've never really faced down a real credible political opponent in a race and beaten him or her. Instead their lawyers, other parties or various misfortunes have contrived to move their opponents out of the race. Let's look at Hillary Clinton. When Hillary Clinton ran for the Senate seat in New York against Rudy Giuliani, New York City's mayor, she had little hope of beating him. Then cancer forced Giuliani to bow out of the race. The always incompetent New York State GOP pushed in Rick Lazio who was completely out of his depth. The outcome was inevitable 5 minutes in. During Hillary Clinton's reelection, if the useless New York State GOP even bothered to field an opposing candidate, no one heard of him. Obama meanwhi

Polls show that 40 percent of British Muslims want Sharia, Islamic Law implemented in the UK and the government has moved to accommodate them. Tony Blair's government passed a law that would essentially criminalize blaspheming Islam. The law was weakened in the House of Lords but it will return again stronger than ever especially as the electoral and terror power of Muslims grow along with the desire of Western governments to appease them. Norway and Sweden have already begun the process of implementing similar laws. In parts of Australia criticizing Islam can get you jail time. In Israel a woman was sentenced to prison for drawing and distributing a cartoon of Mohamed as a pig. In Russia and Belarus newspaper editors have faced jail time for reprinting the Danish cartoons. If you believe that this can't happen in America, you are very wrong. The legal framework for it is already in place. Hate Crime laws allow for actions that are not in and of themselves criminal to be tr

How do you fight cancer in an infected patient? Conventional wisdom would say that you do it by attacking the cancer cells in the body. When it comes to terrorism however, the West's prescription for fighting terrorism is to attack the healthy cells in the body instead. If international terrorism is a cancer, the middle east is practically late stage terminal. Yet the one place in the middle east that is not producing cancer cells, the Jewish population of Israel, is the one that all the professional diplomats and surgeons busy playing surgeon are so eager to cut out. The conventional wisdom among diplomats and pundits has it that the one non-Arab and non-Muslim state in the Middle East is the cause of all the Arab and Islamic terrorism. Which is a little like a doctor diagnosing the healthy parts of the body as cancerous and arguing that the cancer would go away if we simply got rid of the last healthy organ in the body. An intelligent approach to the Middle East would have been t

These are hard times, hard times for those who believe and fight for a future for Israel. Hard times bring doubt and despair, they bring reliance on superstitions like Facilitated Communication and they bring reliance on another kind of superstition, conspiracy theories. It isn't that there aren't plenty of people conspiring against Israel, from without and within, but those conspiracies are fairly open. They can be read on the front pages of the New York Times. The mental poison seeps in when we become obsessed with the secret organizations controlling it all. And when we do that, we become trapped without even knowing it, in a cycle of helplessness. The Republicans in the US took back power when they stopped obsessing with black helicopters and Clinton's body trail and focused on winning elections. We aren't losing because of the Vatican or the CFR or the Trilateral Commission, we're losing because we lack leadership, strategy and a message. We lack faith in both

Arab media sources are reporting that the Gaza escapees spent nearly half a billion dollars in only 2 weeks in Gaza (via Sandmonkey ), To put this into some kind of context, US consumers hit a new record week for the December Christmas shopping spree by spending 4.7 billion in online purchases in one week. Considering the size of the US population and how intense the Christmas shopping season is and how accessible internet shopping is, they still only spent 9 times what the Gazans did. That's a whole lot of cash for sure. In Israel Olmert reacted to the Winograd report in the same expected way, by pretending that everything is now over and blaming Halutz. Like it was any surprise that an air force derived man would focus on using air power over ground assaults. The real question was why Olmert was at that job and the answer lies with Sharon and Kadima. The Terrorists meanwhile hit a new low by using mentally retarded women in suicide bombings . I suppose after tricking a retarded

War heroes, generals come to elections with an advantage, the aura of greatness, of accomplishment and heroism. In practice though the results are at best mixed. America began with one general as President, a reluctant George Washington, and then didn't have another General as President for quite a while. Those few Presidents after Washington who were Generals, were generally mediocrities or outright disasters, Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight Eisenhower. Today in a time of crisis America faces ever more politicians eager to trade on their military credentials. Former disgraced General Wesley Clark is constantly in the wings. John Kerry attempted to trade on his dubious military record, running as a war hero, after he had made his career blasting his fellow soldiers as war criminals. John McCain has practically hung up a 'War Hero for Sale' sign presenting his past as a key credential for the Presidency. Before them Bob Dole ran for office on little more th

If there are any lessons to be learned in the wake of the Republican primaries it's that non-traditional campaigning really doesn't work. The media can't be discounted, the internet doesn't make nearly as much of a difference as the hype said and the traditional process is still dominated by party loyalists and slanted media coverage. Conventional candidates win, unconventional candidates lose. Fred Thompson tried to short circuit the traditional campaign process with the kind of small scale people first campaign that won him his Senate seat and failed to register with most voters. Despite being fairly charismatic and promoting some rather good ideas, Thompson got in the game too late and his campaign never took off. Rudy Giuliani tried to head off the traditional primary process by aiming for the states where he was polling strongly. It seemed like a bold strategy and if New York and California pay off, that might still be the case, but after Florida that seems less li