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What's unique about Obama, we now recognize, is that the notion of "talking to your enemies" is not just a diplomatic cliché. He will indeed hear out the obscurantist regimes that plot against U.S. citizens, allies, and interests, just as he sat still while his obscurantist preacher fulminated against "white America." Will he manage to persuade his interlocutors in Tehran and Damascus to modify their behavior in Iraq, Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, Israel, and the Palestinian territories? Of course not. He was incapable of convincing a man he has known for two decades, who married him and baptized his two daughters, that his employer, the government of the United States, did not create HIV to kill African Americans.

More about what's becoming a repeating theme about BHO

Read this article and remember the dangers of doing buisness with China, given how they treat intelectual property.
"This could get interesting, because the Chinese are not trying to sell their illegal copies of Russian equipment on the international market." Typo should be "now trying to sell"


Link to another site of someone reporting from inside Iraq

And Ted Turner... is going a bit isane and out there. Thinks that Global Warming will be one notch below a full on zombie invasion. At least with the eating of human flesh.

More links on the "Global Warming"
From Ace
Some hard data...

Again the model versus reality stuff.
From Australia

From Canada

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbors froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.

It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.

For all the hype about Global Warming, the mechanisms are not well understood, and the impacts are unknown too. It's dangerous when people are almost... religious "We must atone for our eco-sins to prevent the rapture of an angry Gaia".

It also draws attention away from more established pollutants and methods of reducing environmental damage, but what do you expect from people that honestly believe that Bush pulled the US out of Kyoto (helpful hints: what year was that brought to the US Gov, and did the US ever actually agree to it?)

Overview of training, corruption, and changes in Iraq.

Bad news for India and its Naval Air.

M777 Howitzer Reduce mass, increase mobility.

Some good NATO news.

BHO thinks missile defense is an unproven system that should be cut. He also thinks we should be closer to Europe and work with them more... but what if the Europeans want missile defense?
What'll he do then?


Making the missile defense a NATO alliance program sets a trap for the Democrats, who are on record as wanting to "strengthen our traditional alliances". Unilaterally abrogating the program would put them in a position of going-it-alone and having to explain to the American people what they are doing.

Their opposition to the program has heretofore benefited from not having to explain anything--they simply cut the funding and it all went away. At this point the have a program with notably and very public successes with the NATO allies onboard.

It does send a message.