I’m not an analyst, nor do I play one on TV, BUT: It seems to me that if the Taliban hits NATO convoys four times after Pakistan shut down a key border crossing, the Taliban is doing this with the full knowledge of the Pakistani security services. Put that under the “They are not our friends” category.
How do I bias thee? Let me count the ways. A nation is allowed to bar people for entering it for pretty much any reason under the sun. But not Israel. Israel banned anti-Israel propagandist Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who calls Israel an apartheid state and tried to break the Gaza blockade (the latter is what caused the ban). So what does the AP headline the story? “Israeli court scolds Nobel winner.” Here’s the lead:
An Irish Nobel peace laureate accused Israel of being an “apartheid” state during a deportation hearing before the country’s Supreme Court Monday, prompting a strong rebuke from a justice who told her to keep her “propaganda” to herself.
And she’s not just a propagandist. She’s a liar.
Jody Williams of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, which sponsored the delegation, denied they were aware of the ban. But earlier in the year, Israel’s foreign ministry denied the group’s appeal to ease the ban and let Maguire take part in the delegation that arrived last week.
Got it? They claim they weren’t aware of the ban, and yet, they appealed to the foreign ministry to lift the ban. Liars. Israel-haters. That about sums it up.
And the dog ate their homework: Speaking of liars, the Iranians are now saying that “a small leak” is what’s stopping Bushehr from starting—not the Stuxnet worm. (The worm is now becoming my daily “hmmm” while perusing the news.) In one of the articles I’ve read, the start-up date for Iran’s nukes is now 2014. Something sure as hell happened, and it wasn’t good for Iran. I salute the Stuxnet programmers, no matter who they were. And I also hope that the good guys have taken note and are now protecting their systems from the same thing happening. (P.S.: I don’t buy the “myrtus=Esther” line of whodoneit. It’s too much of a reach.)