Bryan's analysis is spot-on, and here is another example of a childish mind reducing a complex situation to simplistic sound-bite sophistries his limited intellect can comprehend.

The little bitch whines in that effeminate voice of his that, basically, our foreign policy should consist of a Smile Being Our Umbrella and also of course resorts to the Blame America First critique of the crank left/crank right/Anarco-Socialist/Nazi Union.

I do enjoy how the childish leftists constantly make two contradictory complaints: 1) We should engage in more "diplomacy" with these often-unsavory regimes, "talk to them, reason with them," as Doktor Paul screeches like a girl here, and 2) we should not be supporting "military dictators."

Um, asshole? Isn't "supporting" a regime part of "diplomacy"? And which regimes precisely should we be talking with, reasoning with, if not the junta that actually, you know, runs the fucking country? Should we pretend that some group of university protester types is actually running Pakistan and just "talk with, reason with" them while treating the actual ruling claque as undiplomatically as possible, by shunning them?

They have no answers. None at all. They're like Elliot in True Romance screeching in the elevator when a gun is put to his head, "I want to be taken out of here, I don't want to be here anymore!" All they do is attempt to wish the world's problems away. Not confront the problem, not deal with the problem. But simply offer up some glib bumper-sticker Zen bullshit and pretend the problem doesn't exist.

Oh yeah -- and blame America, of course. They're not much for giving advice going forward, but damn, are they quick to glibly claim "It's all America's fault."

It's all they can do. It's not "idealism," it's dementia, and it's cowardice. The world is what it is, not what Herr Doktor Paul and Russ Feingold schoolgirlishly pine for it to be.

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With Geraldo on staff they're certainly diverse as regards Douchebag Opinion.

Thanks to CJ.

Whoops, Libberocky Posted It: Come on, it was one of those blind items. I never read those.

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I realize this story isn't exactly important, especially given the crisis in Pakistan, but what the hell,I can't write thirty posts that say nothing more than "Oh shit! Oh Shit! Oh Shit oh shit oh shit!"

I don't know if this is true, but if it is, it implicates John Edwards as the baby's father. I can't think of any other reason why a big donor to his campaign would decide to house and feed some pregnant stranger.

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Andy McCarthy offers a grown-up take that our man-children like Russ Feingold might find too scary.

A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden.

Aspirants to the American presidency should hope to score so highly in the United States. In Pakistan, though, the al-Qaeda emir easily beat out that countryÂ’s current president, Pervez Musharraf, who polled at 38 percent.

...

There is the Pakistan of our fantasy. The burgeoning democracy in whose vanguard are judges and lawyers and human rights activists using the “rule of law” as a cudgel to bring down a military junta. In the fantasy, Bhutto, an attractive, American-educated socialist whose prominent family made common cause with Soviets and whose tenures were rife with corruption, was somehow the second coming of James Madison.

Then there is the real Pakistan: an enemy of the United States and the West.

The real Pakistan is a breeding ground of Islamic holy war....

The real Pakistan is a place where the intelligence services are salted with Islamic fundamentalists....

The real Pakistan is a place where the military, ineffective and half-hearted though it is in combating Islamic terror, is the thin line between todayÂ’s boiling pot and what tomorrow is more likely to be a jihadist nuclear power than a Western-style democracy.

In that real Pakistan, Benazir BhuttoÂ’s murder is not shocking. There, it was a matter of when, not if.

It is the new way of warfare to proclaim that our quarrel is never with the heroic, struggling people of fill-in-the-blank country. No, we, of course, fight only the regime that oppresses them and frustrates their unquestionable desire for freedom and equality.

Pakistan just wonÂ’t cooperate with this noble narrative.

Whether we get round to admitting it or not, in Pakistan, our quarrel is with the people. Their struggle, literally, is jihad.

...

We donÂ’t have the political will to fight the war on terror every place where jihadists work feverishly to kill Americans. And, given the refusal of the richest, most spendthrift government in American history to grow our military to an appropriate war footing, we may not have the resources to do it.

But we should at least stop fooling ourselves. Jihadists are not going to be wished away, rule-of-lawed into submission, or democratized out of existence. If you really want democracy and the rule of law in places like Pakistan, you need to kill the jihadists first. Or theyÂ’ll kill you, just like, today, they killed Benazir Bhutto.

Tough stuff.

Oh well I guess it's just easier to say "It's Bush's fault for not using more diplomacy in Pakistan."

Let's just continue jerking ourselves off. It's fun.

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Saw this quote from Huck on NRO:

Mike Huckabee strode out to the strains of “Right Now” by Van Halen and immediately addressed the Bhutto situation, expressing “our sincere concern and apologies for what has happened in Pakistan.”

Allah thinks it is much ado, I am not quite sure.

Update:
MM e-mailed to say she agrees with Allah that Huck meant it like "Sorry for your loss".

He probably did mean it that way, but heck I like to pile on the Huck!

Huckabasher Though I Am... [ace] I thought this was nothing at all. He was trying to express condolences shortly after hearing some big news and chose the wrong word. It happens. No big deal.

K-Lo is also noting another big nothing, that the Thompson campaign sent out a "Great News" email about an endorsement soon after the assassination. Again, who cares?

PS, sorry, I've been having problems connecting.

Stay Classy, Russ Feingold [Ace]: I'm a little more disgusted by Russ Feingold's attempt to blame the assassination on Bush's focus on Iraq.

Can grown-ups talk now, Russie? The fact of the matter is that Pakistan is filled with murderous jihadis who want the country to officially be Al Qaedastan. It has, what?, 150 million people. Plus nukes.

We've been riding a tiger with Pakistan since 9/11 because we have little other choice, short of the liberals' plan for the Great Overmountain Invasion of Pakistan that I keep hearing about.

Now that that's actually a grim possibility -- now that the country isn't ruled by a US ally (nominally) but could shortly actually become Al Qaedastan -- I think liberals will suddenly begin discussing Pakistan with more, what's the word, nuance than we've grown accustomed to.

Draft? Invasion of a huge Muslim nation armed with nukes? Circumstances may just deliver to liberals what they've claimed to long desire.

No one should take much solace in that, of course. I'd rather liberals be glibly dishonest than actually have to confront an Al Qaeda friendly, or Al Qaeda ruled, nuclear Pakistan, which could lead to a war that could literally kill millions.

Still I'll be happy to see the MSM question Hillary and Obama and the rest more closely on their previous plans to invade a huge country filled with jihadis, where the intelligence services are rotten to the core with Taliban and Al Qaeda sympathizers or actual members and where the delivery of a nuke to terrorists is just one "surprise capture" of a nuclear-carrying truck away.

Instead of offering us serious analysis of a dire situation, Feingold and the rest of the idiots fall back on their knee-jerk sound-bite denunciations of Bush.

Jesus, they're less informed and thoughtful than bloggers.

But that's what liberals do. They have very little genuine advice on foreign policy matters, so rather than actually take a position on what we should do going forward, they retreat into the comfortable leftist critique of what-the-US-did-in-the-past-to-cause-this-and-oh-aren't-we-so-awful.

Sorry, that's not going to cut it, you stupid silly bitches. This is a rather serious problem and I'm afraid if you're going to sound off publicly I'm going to have to demand an equally serious response.

Update: [Liberrocky]
Here is InstaGlenn's take.

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Via the Corner

Money Quote: "Almost a perfect storm"
Full of great stuff actually.

Update:
The full transcript can be found here.

The Fred! bleg is up near over 100k. more...

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says some goof I never heard of before today over at Townhall.com.

I'm telling you, in between Hugh Hewitt's frequent tongue-bathing of Mitt Romney, and now Matt (who?) Towery smearing the legacy of the 20th Century's greatest President to push a Bircher kook, I'm beginning to objectively think that anyone associated with Townhall can't be taken seriously as a legitimate pundit.

But that's just me.

What, you may ask, gives Mr. Towery the ability to bequeath the mantle of "REAGAN" upon Mr. Paul? Why this....

On Christmas Day, I glanced at the memorabilia from my years in politics. The photos and notes from Newt Gingrich. Candid shots of me with the likes of Jimmy Carter and of the brilliant mastermind of his presidential victory, Hamilton Jordan. Next were shots of me posing with Bill Clinton and then with both President Bushes.

And oh yes, here was a young U.S. Senate aide Matt Towery with one Ronald Reagan.

That's it. Read the rest of the article. He basis his entire judgment on the fact he once posed for a photo with Pres. Reagan.

Well, let me tell you something, Mr. Towery. I was once a young Senate aide too. And, like you, I have a photo with the former President.

Which gives me the same degree of authority to offer you a few words of advice: put down the crack pipe, son.

More Towery inanity after the jump.

UPDATE Since Towery mentions Reagan's speeches in 1964, I have posted a YouTube clip of Reagan's famous "A Time for Choosing" at the end of the entry. As DrewM so succintly IM'd "No way Paul gives this speech."

I tend to agree. I think he would have called Reagan's 1964 speech an invitation to warmongering. more...

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...where he's gone dark, due to lack of funds.

Here's his bleg.

Here's the ad he wants to run:

Via Hot Air, with Rudy's new ad on the stakes of this war, and musings about how the coming Pakistan civil war might impact US politics. (Consensus: Almost not at all.)

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This has been going on for a while but Mickey Kaus has a good round-up. Many illegal immigrants are self-deporting back to their home (legal) countries for one reason or another.

Most don't want to credit new enforcement toughness-- too many on both the left and right are ideologically committed to the idea that enforcement can't work (or can't be allowed to work), and that only a Comprehensive Piece of Shit Amnesty can solve this problem -- but there seems to be something going on that can't be explained only by the loss of construction jobs.

As an aside, my dad worked in construction. What is alarming about runaway illegal immigration is that so many jobs formerly thought to be safe for, you know, legal American workers, are now largely filled by illegal immigrants. I used to work as a busboy in high school; I doubt there are too many restaurants employing American-born busboys any longer.

It really seems rather un-American to decide that lower-class workers are just too damn greedy and too darn well-paid and that jobs that in the past would go to them will instead go to foreign-born illegal migrants. Outsourcing put a lot of formerly American jobs in foreign countries. Now even the jobs that must be done here and can't be outsourced are being filled by foreign workers anyway through connived nonenforcement of our laws -- insourcing, if you will.

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UPDATE: I'm sponsoring a contest in this one. Call it a late Christmas gift.

I will judge without mercy. Or judgement. That's how I roll.

Your favorite Ron Paul aphorism. No style constraints. Haiku might get you a little bit noticed there, you sassy thing you!

Give it up. Show LauraW us what you got.

No emails. you pervs.

UPDATE2: ghengis, the relocated Okie weighs in with a torp.

12 Ron Paul is the only man who can rid us of the prevent defense.
Posted by: genghis at December 27, 2007 01:32 PM (HwY1l)

Wait there's more!

83 Ron Paul used pictures of icus without his permission.
Posted by: eman at December 27, 2007 04:08 PM (8iSfZ)

Ron Paul is the only man who can save America from the military-industrial complex.

And the Medical-industrial complex.

the Financial-industrial complex.

and the Communications-industrial complex.

All the fascists too.

This past Sunday on Meet the Press, Paul responded to Tim Russert's questions on fascism and the war on terror. ace linked this article in the headlines, "When Right meets Left". It's a decent enough title I suppose, but if you really wanted to capture the essence of it, "When Apologetic Ignorant Fuckwits meet Left" would have been better. Perhaps the editor killed that one.

Have you noticed that people who use the word "fascist" at least once a day, are frequently idiots who simply misuse the word to reinforce their idiotic arguments. Ron Paul doesn't even have the balls to do that, he waters it down to the "threat of creepy-crawly fascism".

*tantalizing AoS Moron contest below! Fabulous prizes await!* more...

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